Negroponte Cites "Innovations" In Integrating Intelligence; More Layers Of Bureaucracy And Failures?

Source: Washington Post

Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte slips further into GOP denial, jovially defending his first year on the job by saying he has made progress in integrating the work of the 16 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community.

Actually John, the Republican party (whose motto used to be small government and states' rights) has simply added a few more layers to the bureaucracy atop the network of intelligence agencies and basically made the problem worse, not better.

Now we have another set of suits fighting over who has the lead instead of using that same energy on finding the threats to this nation.

Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte defended his first year on the job yesterday by saying he has made progress in integrating the work of the 16 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, adding it will take time "remaking a loose confederation into a unified enterprise."

Negroponte spoke at the National Press Club, after recent criticism in Congress and elsewhere that his growing organization is threatening to become another troublesome layer of bureaucracy atop the network of intelligence agencies, which collectively spend about $44 billion a year and involve about 100,000 people in the United States and abroad.

I have another view of this new organization; it was created in the ideals of "McCarthyism" to control intelligence flow and go after those who speak out against obvious crimes/speak to the press.

I have to hand it to this guy for following the script and saying, "All is well," while standing in the fog that is our intelligence establishment. He's like a good dog, and he follows the orders of his White House masters well.

Good boy, Johnny! Here's a treat for being a good mindless puppet. Now roll over and play dead, boy.



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