NationStates Jolt Archive

Can anybody say Himmler?

...Or a drug czar?
...Or Ashcroft?

Its useless.

Haven't all the agencies said this is a bad idea?

Can anybody say Himmler?

Himmler.

We do have a person overseeing everything... the Director of Central Intelligence. Another post is just political posturing and fearmongering.

http://cia.gov/dci/about.html

"...DCI... heads the US Intelligence Community and also directs the Central Intelligence Agency."

Really, people need to get educated.

Lol, the CIA couldn't even foresee the fall of the Soviet Empire.

Who could? Miss Cleo? :rolleyes:

Does the US really need a love Czar? :fluffle:

Does the US really need a love Czar? :fluffle:

Well, we had one, but then he died. :(

God bless you, Barry White.

The president should at least have some intelligence.

I think the US needs intelligent intelligence.

Well, we had one, but then he died. :(

God bless you, Barry White.


haha that's soul thanks :)

I'm not saying the intel community doesn't need reform. But the last thing it needs is another layer of red tape over it. In my opinion, we need to do the following:

1. Make the CIA the primary instrument (other than the State Department) of US Foreign Policy, rather than the military. The CIA is there to defend our country, the military is there to save us if the CIA screws something up.

2. Splice together the genes of William Colby and Alan Dulles. Or get someone as good as them. Everyone since Colby has either been a complete disaster, or mediocre. I'm probaly the only liberal who will admit that Tenant falls into the latter category, and not the former.

3. Repeal the law prohibiting assasinations.

4. Don't be afraid to use a covert ops team, as long as they can't be tied down to the United States.

5. Get rid of the Homeland Security Department. It just diverts funding to its administration and other costs that could better be used going to the individual agencies that were brought under its control.

6. Getting into more immediate concerns, create a large recruiting push for the Clandestine Service to create broader HUMINT capabilities.

7. Decommision some (but not all) of our spy sats, and reallocate the money to HUMINT and Psychological Warfare operations (To try to convince disillusioned Muslim men from joining Al-Qaida)

8. Offer much larger salaries and benefits to get more Arabic and other languages spoken in the Mideast translators in there.

My personal favorite recomendation which is not going to accepted (or made by many) is get the FBI out of the spy game. The FBI are cops, not spies and you don't want cops to have the same power of intrusion into people's private lives that spies have, and spies cannot function effectively if they are limited the powers cops should have. The FBI is both the demestic intelligence agency and the Federal police agency and it hampers both functions for it try to do both. Split the Domestic intelligence off from the FBI and create a new agency if you want a check on the CIA, but get it out of the hands of the FBI.

I support the idea. Despite the CIA's appearance as the main intelligence agency for the US, there are fourteen others. Besides, the CIA only has power in foreign matters, not domestic ones. With an intergrated intelligence system, conections between domestic and foreign issues will be easier to spot, and our intelligence agencies will be of greater service to the American people.