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2005-09-23 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-09-23 00:25|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "...big cuts in a multibillion-dollar satellite program..."
They should be under the perview of the NRO to begin with.

Posted by raptor 2005-09-23 08:14|| 2005-09-23 08:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Shoulda done a Beria moment as soon as he walked in, pour encourager les autres!.

Posted by Whealet Fleling9790 2005-09-23 08:58|| 2005-09-23 08:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Fire 'em faster.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-09-23 10:18|| 2005-09-23 10:18|| Front Page Top

#4 "...big cuts in a multibillion-dollar satellite program..."
They should be under the perview of the NRO to begin with.

The NRO is co-owned by USAF and the CIA. The program in question is probably the Future Imagery Architecture (FIA).

Posted by lotp 2005-09-23 10:21|| 2005-09-23 10:21|| Front Page Top

#5 big cuts in a multibillion-dollar satellite program in part to free up money for more human spying.

Penny wise, pound foolish. These national systems will be needed for China, Korea and any other place where access is difficult and we are forced to rely on national technical means.

We need to do both.

Posted by Oldspook 2005-09-23 15:17|| 2005-09-23 15:17|| Front Page Top

#6 I read somewhere with the NRO helped with Katrina and is helping with Rita.
Before and after diffs of high res photos.

Posted by 3dc 2005-09-23 15:43|| 2005-09-23 15:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Agreed on the importance of the mission, OS.

FIA has had some major problems, tho ....

Posted by lotp 2005-09-23 16:18|| 2005-09-23 16:18|| Front Page Top

#8 "Anyone who came in when he did would have had a steep hill to climb, in part because change can be difficult," Ms. Harman said. But she also said that the departures of Mr. Richer and others were "very worrisome" because they amounted to a loss of "hundreds of years of experience and leadership."

That "leadership and experience" was also one of the major reasons for the failures of the last 20 years, lady. If it had been better, most of the failures wouldn't have happened. The ones we hear about are only the tip of the iceberg. The CIA has been only marginally effective at ANYTHING since the mid-1980's. There have been far too many 'surprises', and far too few successes. Fire 'em faster, run 'em out quicker, and replace them with people who understand their future depends on them being right at least as often as they're wrong.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2005-09-23 23:16|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-09-23 23:16|| Front Page Top

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