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| Britain |
| Businessman takes leading MI6 job |
| 2005-01-12 |
 A senior business figure has been appointed to MI6 to improve the running of the intelligence agency. A long-serving officer has also begun heading an internal watchdog monitoring the quality of intelligence gathered by the Secret Intelligence Service. The appointments were a response to 2004's Lord Butler report that said intelligence on Iraqi weapons had been unreliable, the Foreign Office said. It confirmed the appointments after reports appeared in newspapers. Richard Branson is M? |
| Posted by:Howard UK |
| #2 hhmm all sounds like budget saving exercise to me aka streamlining . I think I'll pass judgement until I see something of note . |
| Posted by: MacNails 2005-01-12 12:26:14 PM |
| #1 Britain and the US have simultaneously reached the conclusion that "schoolboys" have no place in their intelligence service. Be they from Eton and Cambridge, or Yale and Harvard, over time they just go rotten. Not only are their educations *inferior* to those of generic state universities, but they lack the initiative, innovation, creativity, and insights found outside of the ivory towers. Their archaic institutions are much like the service academies are to the military: productive of either rigid and ambitious authoritarians, or undisciplined and feckless slackers. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-01-12 9:42:54 AM |