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| 2012-01-27 | ||
| WASHINGTON - US intelligence agencies will rely increasingly on international allies for information sharing as budgets tighten in the current climate of austerity, a senior intelligence official said on Thursday. "Our dependency on our allies ... is going to grow," Defense Intelligence Agency Deputy Director David Shedd said. He was speaking at a Center for Strategic and International Studies forum on information sharing.
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| #5 Who? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-01-27 19:20 |
| #4 How about Hu Jintao? We rely on him for just about everything else. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-01-27 15:31 |
| #3 US spies to rely more on allies due to budget austerity Omar Suleiman, for example. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-01-27 11:24 |
| #2 Budget austerity? No problem. Fire an s-load of the upper management Eli "honorable schoolboys" that have monopolized the place for 50 years. Our intelligence agencies have long been dependent on the Ivy League schools, a good analogy for which would be if the US Navy and Army were reliant on Annapolis and West Point for all their officers. Instead, the intelligence agencies need the equivalent of ROTC on campuses around the country. While they do recruit there, it is only for low level jobs. But that is where they need to recruit to get less inbred skills. People who want to work, not just push paper. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-01-27 09:27 |
| #1 Why on earth would he say such a thing in public? As the Agency Deputy Director responsable for the Policy, Plans and Requirements, David Shedd ( a Pres. Bush appointee) probably had his budget cut and went public as a kind of protest. Maybe the DIA will depend on Open-source intelligence (OSINT)! |
| Posted by: Willy 2012-01-27 04:33 |