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2005-06-07 Home Front: WoT

Bill would put CIA in charge of all overseas humint including military

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Posted by too true 2005-06-07 10:59|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Another waste of paper and resources.

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-06-07 11:56|| 2005-06-07 11:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Stupid idea.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-06-07 11:59|| 2005-06-07 11:59|| Front Page Top

#3 (mode=Darth)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-06-07 12:01|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-06-07 12:01|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm currently reading Blind Man's Bluff : The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage, and last night I got to section that described how the CIA came in and grabbed aspects of the Navy's submarine espionage (specifically the NR-1 sub program).

Amazing how things never seem to change.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats">Laurence of the Rats 2005-06-07 12:58|| http://www.punictreachery.com]">[http://www.punictreachery.com] 2005-06-07 12:58|| Front Page Top

#5 The CIA can't even do what they were set up to do, much less run the whole show. I suspect there is so much power grapling and tattletale bullsh*t that nobody can make a move.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-06-07 13:01|| 2005-06-07 13:01|| Front Page Top

#6 good book though, eh, LOTR?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-06-07 14:52|| 2005-06-07 14:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Frank G - Yes it is. Before I went to sleep I read of an incident where a US Sturgeon and a Soviet Echo hit each other and for years each captain was convinced the other had sunk.

I'm shocked there weren't shots fired with all the goings on... then again, with so little coming out over the decades there might very well have been a few fights and we haven't heard about it yet.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats">Laurence of the Rats 2005-06-07 15:49|| http://www.punictreachery.com]">[http://www.punictreachery.com] 2005-06-07 15:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Why not the other way around?
The DIA is so much more accurate and efficient ...
Put the DIA in charge of the CIA.

Posted by 3dc 2005-06-07 16:27|| 2005-06-07 16:27|| Front Page Top

#9 3dc, I never thought of it that way -- and now that you mention it, that doesn't sound like a bad idea in the least!

Strategic Support Branch, run for it before they get you [and infect you with their political hackery]!

(Seriously, read up on them. I'm only citing what was admitted to, and for the love of money Rumsfeld's got the right idea.)

Posted by Edward Yee">Edward Yee 2005-06-07 17:55|| http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]">[http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2005-06-07 17:55|| Front Page Top

#10 I very strongly recommend that you read The Silent War by John PiÃ±a Craven. He wrote it largely in response to Blind Man's Bluff. The tale of the CIA taking over underwater espionage has a lot more to it.

I don't know why my links show up in bold.

The Glomar explorer served multiple purposes, some of which Craven only hints at. In many ways I'm reminded of the CIA's subsequent involvement with the NRO and the Space Shuttle.

Posted by Rory B. Bellows 2005-06-07 18:15|| 2005-06-07 18:15|| Front Page Top

#11 CIA and National Review Online? Does Buckley know?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-06-07 18:22|| 2005-06-07 18:22|| Front Page Top

#12 National Reconaissance Office. :)

Posted by Rory B. Bellows 2005-06-07 18:49|| 2005-06-07 18:49|| Front Page Top

#13 Right. That explains why TKS is written from Turkey.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-07 19:23|| 2005-06-07 19:23|| Front Page Top

#14 I can say no more

Posted by Blackford Oakes">Blackford Oakes 2005-06-07 19:25|| 2005-06-07 19:25|| Front Page Top

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