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2005-10-27 Home Front: WoT

Negroponte Unveils Intelligence Strategy

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Posted by lotp 2005-10-27 11:57|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 How nice. It's the implementation that matters, however.

Posted by Captain America 2005-10-27 12:41|| 2005-10-27 12:41|| Front Page Top

#2 I hope this presages covert activities going under DOD.

Posted by Uleter Angenter7912 2005-10-27 12:42|| 2005-10-27 12:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Bureaucracy being full of Bureaucrats the 1st, 3rd and 10th gaols will not be easy to implement, i.e.

1) Build an integrated intelligence capability to address threats to the homeland, consistent with U.S. laws and the protection of privacy and civil liberties.

3) Rebalance, integrate, and optimize collection capabilities to meet current and future customer and analytic priorities.

10) Eliminate redundancy and programs that add little or no value and re-direct savings to existing and emerging national security priorities.

Posted by SwissTex 2005-10-27 13:17|| 2005-10-27 13:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Of course, Swiss Tex. That's why upper management gets paid the big bucks - and why the rest of us don't want to be promoted that high. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-10-27 13:54|| 2005-10-27 13:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Well of course we're not 'stuck on stupid.' Everyone knows this 'strategy' will be successful. How could a foreign born, former UN AMBO, French linquist and Yalie foreign service officer with middle name of Dimitri...possibly fail as an intelligence professional. More Yalies are always welcome. I understand he even speaks a little Texican! The 'transformation' mantra immediately popped out. That surely sinches it. The other obvious guarantour of success will be the physical location of his agency, i.e., proximity to that other dynamo of early warning success and productivity. One must wonder if covered walking paths that converge on a central tobacco and meditation atrium are planned. "Enterprise Objectives"...huh? Sounds like Malcolm Baldridge Award criteria. Good luck Ponte! Remember if you will, Ou thniskei zeilos eleutherias - Greek proverb; the passion for freedom never dies. I cannot help but wonder if the fellow who coined the phrase..."stuck on stupid" could not do better - quicker.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-10-27 17:27|| 2005-10-27 17:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Screw promoting democracy.

Promote individual liberty - and the rest will follow as surely as night follows day.

Posted by Oldspook 2005-10-27 22:48|| 2005-10-27 22:48|| Front Page Top

#7 "Build an integrated intelligence capability "

You try getting the NSA to share anything related to collection without them trying to take control of it too... Same goes for CIA and HUMINT.

Not going to happen. Not unitl/unless someone chops the heads off all these agencies, clears the decks in middle management, and breaks down the empire building that runs rampant in any large government agency, defence or otherwise.

Posted by Oldspook 2005-10-27 22:52|| 2005-10-27 22:52|| Front Page Top

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