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No one who would talk about it knows anything reliable. Least of all anyone bloviating on this thread. Including me. Best you'll get here are the comments ok'
by bilbo0s 4y ago
No one who would talk about it knows anything reliable.
Least of all anyone bloviating on this thread. Including me.
Best you'll get here are the comments ok'd by professional influence campaigns mounted by the intelligence services of various nations. None of which have any interest in you being "informed". So take everything with a 10 pound block of salt.
Skepticism is warranted.
- rapjr9 4y agoOne thing we do know, it is Congress that tasks the USA intelligence services, as well as the President. Found this PDF on the web: https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/books-monographs/the-agency-and-the-hill/ https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/books-monographs/the-agenc... which seems to be a history of the relationship between the CIA and Congress. So a reasonable guess would be that the priorities of the people in Congress and the current President determine the priorities of the intelligence agencies. Many in Congress are concerned with boosting companies in the USA, especially those related to national security, so it seems reasonable they would create tasks related to that. What members of Congress actually do with the information they receive from spying seems to be left entirely up to them, it is not the intelligence services that decide who to reveal it to. Congresspeople could pass it to the US companies that could benefit. We know they sometimes make it public, though often without attribution.
- knodi123 4y ago> So take everything with a 10 pound block of salt. That's enough salt to kill anyone. I hope everyone takes your dietary advice with an appropriate amount of skepticism.