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AFAIK, from my super super secret source (I joke), is that all of the HUMINT and SIGINT will still occur but the analysis will be effected, mainly because the e
by ianstallings 13y ago
AFAIK, from my super super secret source (I joke), is that all of the HUMINT and SIGINT will still occur but the analysis will be effected, mainly because the essential analysts won't have their typical support staff. For instance, maybe they need a particular piece of hardware. Procurement of that hardware will suffer because that dept. will be staffed by a "skeleton crew".
A lot of those workers are contractors and will be placed on the bench, some paid some not, depending on who they work for.
The Federal workers seem outraged in the DC area, but most civilian workers are used to the instability of markets and have little pity, from what I hear. That's public info, not private. No super secret source for that one, just callers on WTOP.
- latj 13y agoIf I was a spy agency, years ago I would have started coming up with alternate streams of income to be less dependent on the economy and the U.S. Congress. I dunno- maybe sell drugs, guns, information...
- DennisP 13y agoThe CIA has been accused of drug trafficking on a number of occasions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traffic...
- ianstallings 13y agoThey were also accused of creating the "superdollar" aka the "supernote": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar But you can see it's all speculation, based on things they have not said, etc.
- sentenza 13y agoI wonder if they combine this with the new "90% of admins will be replaced by magic" credo to create an actual internal infrastructure meltdown. All it takes is somebody with some say in the matter to decide that it would all work out if they just "hurried up" with the admin automation part.