Post by nsainvader on Feb 23, 2014 18:03:44 GMT -5
It's like this: the Defense Department seems to have determined that the executive-branch only departments of the NSA and CIA no longer have the interests of national defense and security as priorities and are supplying Intel strictly to the political masters for their "own bureaucratic priorities".
The Pentagon feels the need for more dedicated tactical and strategic information sources that supersede the whims and suspect priorities of the political panderers aka the civilian government. Whether or not the humint resources works for this agency or that, the management/analysis and use of that intel information becomes the "property" of various agencies and their in (politically appointed) house analytic teams to "put the spin" on the information for the consumption by their political masters and the eventual "leaking" which accompanies covert activity necessary to influence public opinion.
I am certain the military commanders in the field and in the headquarters require un-politicized analytic information from humint and other resources in order to make the correct, legal and constitutionally bound decisions necessary to reduce or eliminate credible threats to troops, operations and overall national security.
Unfortunately, there is no apolitical, unbiased information available from those agencies reporting to the Executive Branch which derive most of their funding through black budgets with little or no oversight on the activities, methods and political goals of the "powers that be" during any given 4-year political cycle. There is of course no guarantee that additional intel resources owned by the Pentagon would provide any greater or more in depth information than existing resources - but there would by necessity be "another slant" on the intel more suited to strictly military and national security purposes rather than politically expedient purposes.
The Pentagon feels the need for more dedicated tactical and strategic information sources that supersede the whims and suspect priorities of the political panderers aka the civilian government. Whether or not the humint resources works for this agency or that, the management/analysis and use of that intel information becomes the "property" of various agencies and their in (politically appointed) house analytic teams to "put the spin" on the information for the consumption by their political masters and the eventual "leaking" which accompanies covert activity necessary to influence public opinion.
I am certain the military commanders in the field and in the headquarters require un-politicized analytic information from humint and other resources in order to make the correct, legal and constitutionally bound decisions necessary to reduce or eliminate credible threats to troops, operations and overall national security.
Unfortunately, there is no apolitical, unbiased information available from those agencies reporting to the Executive Branch which derive most of their funding through black budgets with little or no oversight on the activities, methods and political goals of the "powers that be" during any given 4-year political cycle. There is of course no guarantee that additional intel resources owned by the Pentagon would provide any greater or more in depth information than existing resources - but there would by necessity be "another slant" on the intel more suited to strictly military and national security purposes rather than politically expedient purposes.