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2018-11-16 Government

CIA Keeps Having Disastrous Failures - How To Fix It

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-11-16 05:56|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The author refers to it as his 'scheme.' I believe what the author has highlighted is the need for a long-term investment.

General Mike Flynn saw the need for a long-term approach while serving as the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. His insistence upon the 'long-term', and his various attempts at investment and development of the 'long-term', ultimately resulted in his ouster.

The futility of continued crisis management and political motivated operations is evidenced in the rush to find and dispose of UBL, and the subsequent tragic events in 2009 at FOB Chapman in Afghanistan.

Needless to say, our government does not do very well when it comes to long-term planning and stability. Tragically, it tends to follow established election cycles.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-11-16 06:24|| 2018-11-16 06:24|| Front Page Top

#2 The roots of this Program was under the OSS - which was effective in taking care of other Countries and their people.

Finding Remnant anywhere is the fulcrum

Posted by newc 2018-11-16 06:32|| 2018-11-16 06:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Think lots of the CIA etc got retasked to protecting the establishment and neglecting any humint by going for big shiny computers that will do the dirty jobs for them.

The more opaque the bureaucracies are, the more they are run for the convenience of the staff, not the purpose they were set up to do.

Nothing is more opaque than "intelligence".

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-11-16 06:50|| 2018-11-16 06:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Spends too much time plotting to overthrow elected governments, particularly their own. Not just Trump, see the leaks during the Bush administration.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-11-16 07:12|| 2018-11-16 07:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Independent kingdom

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-11-16 07:25|| 2018-11-16 07:25|| Front Page Top

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