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Post by BlackHawk on Feb 24, 2014 8:39:17 GMT -5
Each agency has focus on different things. The DIA for the last decade has pretty much been the Iraq/Afgan intel agency as that is where 95% of its focus has been. It is now returning to its traditional mission. Nothing crazy or odd about this.
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Post by mranderson on Feb 24, 2014 15:49:23 GMT -5
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Post by voltaire on Feb 24, 2014 15:55:43 GMT -5
Each agency has focus on different things. The DIA for the last decade has pretty much been the Iraq/Afgan intel agency as that is where 95% of its focus has been. It is now returning to its traditional mission. Nothing crazy or odd about this. The IC as a whole has been focused on Iraq/Afghanistan (and more recently, Iran). It is notoriously bad at balancing competing priorities from the national intelligence priority framework. If a dollar can be programmed for the top priority or a lesser priority, it will go to the top priority every time. So you get an agency that knows every thing about Russia, then nothing about anything, and then it thinks Iraq has stockpiles of WMDs. Slam dunk. Now it knows everything about Iraq, but when the next crisis breaks out somewhere else, they won't know anything about that, and the cycle starts over again. All those commentaries about how the Cold War IC wasn't up to the task of counterterrorism will be repeated in 20-30 years, with everyone lamenting how the IC spent too much time tracking terrorists and didn't predict/infiltrate/counter Threat X. Maybe the DIA's new collectors will take some pressure of CIA so it can go find Threat X.
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Post by yourpresident on Feb 24, 2014 16:17:23 GMT -5
Posting articles as they arise - each one has a different angle and its good that we see more than one closed minded opinion. After all - we have so many 'experts' here each with their own divergent take on the matter.
Double agents: Pentagon grows CIA twin out of own spy pool
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Post by area51 on Feb 24, 2014 16:41:33 GMT -5
Head about this somewhere. Yeah their own spies cause where were you CIA when 911 happened. Of course the Pentagon would have no resources to stop an on soil attack.
Especially miffed at building a reinforced wing that was a target in 911 must have initiated an effort to put up its own walls. Thus making two agencies more difficult to miss the boat next time.
Double, triple or quadruple spy redundancy lets get safe America.
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Post by Olivia on Feb 24, 2014 17:06:34 GMT -5
The reason the DIA did this is there primary function is to collect on anything that will affect conducting military operations and defense. The CIA does not focus on such things. Their primary mission is to collect solely on intelligence requirements regarding other nations. In the event that the opportunity arises to collect on a requirement outside of an agents preview they are to take every advantage so long as it does not interfere with the priority intelligence their primary mission demand. Like the other 14 agencies they have different missions, capabilities and functions.
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Post by Apollo_18 on Feb 24, 2014 17:20:12 GMT -5
Why not National public intelligence? I heard Naval intelligence technology is pretty advanced.
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