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Current mood:  argumentative Category: Blogging
I know a lot about the Marine Corps, and little about how the rest of the government works.
Trust me when I say the branches of service do not operate in the same manner, but that's another blog.
Yesterday, while researching a book. I came across the National Intelligence Council. Now, I knew about them, but didn't delve too deep. I did this time.
These are the people who gather info and give it to the CIA, DIA, DEA, etc.... and they act on it. Supposedly. They have gathered info from outside non government sources, like think tanks too. They are the ones who come up with worst case senarios and try to head them off.
Really?
Can you say WAY too many people on the payroll who could alter information before its given to the right resource?
I can.
The shortest distance between two places is a straight line... so why do we need so many splinter agencies?
Just an idea of the NIC's job... these are the people who should have given the USA info on Bin Laden before 9-11.
Oh yeah, they were hard at work when we needed them. Sure.
The staff have backgrounds with agencies I'd never heard of before. They've had their fingers in the Intelligence pie for a long time, but we know so little about what they actually DO. One of them was the Daily Briefer on intell to the president I didn't calculate the years to see which president, but they're alive so its got to be at least the last 3.
Who are these people? And what do they REALLY do? After reading tons if info on the site, I still didn't have a clue.
And I got to say... as I read, I kept thinking, doesn't the CIA, DIA or NSA do that?
They have rooms of analysts who do nohting but comb over information.
Go read, and see why we keep paying MORE taxes for agencies that just overplap each other and don't share the information.
Your tax dollars at work, people.
Yes, you guessed it, I'm using it in a book... and it won't be pretty.
AMY
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