Yes, I agree. So much duplication of effort. All intelligence needs to be in one agency under the control the U.S. Military. The purpose of intelligence should be national defense.
Instead, it is currently used to spy on the American people, spy on our elected leaders, blackmail, spy on other governments who are no danger to the United States, subvert elections in our own country and other countries, overthrow governments through coup d'etats or soft coups, they run human trafficking rings, child trafficking rings, arms trafficking, drug trafficking, etc., etc., etc.
One of the things people need to understand... the CIA makes part of it's own money through illegal operations. Even if congress stopped all funding, the CIA would still have money. This makes it non-accountable to government leadership. It is the shadow government. It does what it wants.
The problem with intelligence collection is that you cannot afford to have just one knothole through which to view the world. You need several different perspectives to be sure you are not seeing figments of imagination, or being fed malarkey. But how do you reconcile the perspectives? That problem still exists despite what happens to the CIA. The CIA is a case where a wartime agency, the OSS, gained influence and dominance over all intelligence product, thus providing a unified---but curated---picture. Other agencies (e.g., DIA) used to provide competing collection, but have been subdued over time.
In any case, the present CIA has a huge backlog of portfolios, data, and infrastructure and any rational disposition will need to have a severe inventory process.
Yes, I agree. So much duplication of effort. All intelligence needs to be in one agency under the control the U.S. Military. The purpose of intelligence should be national defense.
Hence why IIRC Q at one point said DIA and NSA are all we need
We don't need the cia, so we don't really need a director.
Yes, I agree. So much duplication of effort. All intelligence needs to be in one agency under the control the U.S. Military. The purpose of intelligence should be national defense.
Instead, it is currently used to spy on the American people, spy on our elected leaders, blackmail, spy on other governments who are no danger to the United States, subvert elections in our own country and other countries, overthrow governments through coup d'etats or soft coups, they run human trafficking rings, child trafficking rings, arms trafficking, drug trafficking, etc., etc., etc.
One of the things people need to understand... the CIA makes part of it's own money through illegal operations. Even if congress stopped all funding, the CIA would still have money. This makes it non-accountable to government leadership. It is the shadow government. It does what it wants.
The problem with intelligence collection is that you cannot afford to have just one knothole through which to view the world. You need several different perspectives to be sure you are not seeing figments of imagination, or being fed malarkey. But how do you reconcile the perspectives? That problem still exists despite what happens to the CIA. The CIA is a case where a wartime agency, the OSS, gained influence and dominance over all intelligence product, thus providing a unified---but curated---picture. Other agencies (e.g., DIA) used to provide competing collection, but have been subdued over time.
In any case, the present CIA has a huge backlog of portfolios, data, and infrastructure and any rational disposition will need to have a severe inventory process.
Hence why IIRC Q at one point said DIA and NSA are all we need