The ‘Hood
United States Intelligence Community
The “Community” is made up of sixteen organizations, and eight of them are within the Department of Defense.
Four are joint service organizations:
- Defense Intelligence Agency
- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- National Reconnaissance Office
- National Security Agency
And four are elements of the individual services:
- Air Intelligence Agency
- Army Intelligence
- Office of Naval Intelligence
- Marine Corps Intelligence Activity
There is one, and only one, independent intelligence entity in the Community: the Central Intelligence Agency.
Seven other organizations in the Community are parts of other Cabinet-level Departments.
It should be noted that the only intelligence agency not faulted in the run-up to the Iraq War was the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), but let’s not reward competence.
If Hayden becomes the Director of the CIA, nine of the sixteen voices at the table will belong to uniformed military officers.
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Holy Moly…no wonder there is such concern about Hayden, aside from all his other negatives.
And being from the intel community yourself…you would KNOW how this is organized.
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You have to have independent voices and views. You have to have multiple sources and methods.
I have to find open sources to talk about this stuff.
As always your summaries are pertinent and well crafted. We dont’ get this stuff in the Media Populi.
And those are some cool logos.
The military actually has heralds to design unit insignia and seals. The guys at Geo-spatial went a little overboard.
There’s no reason this stuff should ever impact citizens of the US. This is wrong on so many levels.