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Bingo. The problem is that in the intel community they used to have that salty old graybeard that would tell general X and politician Y the cold hard truth to p

Bingo. The problem is that in the intel community they used to have that salty old graybeard that would tell general X and politician Y the cold hard truth to power that they need to hear, instead of what they want to hear. Post 9/11, there is evidence that it was mostly vp Cheney who physically intervened in this process, personally pulling in analysts and grilling them... The problem to me is that the same chilling effects we have seen develop in the journalistic community have also grown in the intel community, and when you have analysts who spend more time kissing ass than calling people out bullshit like they should, we are only going to end up in worse geopolitical situations. NSA right now holds cards over CIA, keep that in mind as well.

flurpitude 12y ago
NSA right now holds cards over CIA, keep that in mind as well. Can you elaborate a bit or suggest some reading on that point?
- arca_vorago 12y ago
  Well it's more of an insight gained mostly from reading former-spooks books and similar. The fact is that the resources, both monetary and physical, are much larger than the company (CIA). It employs many more people as well, and a lot of people don't realize that the agency (NSA) has paramilitary divisions as well. The main reason I say though is because NSA has the upstream under their thumb. Pretty much anything the company does is going to be visible to the agency but not the other way around, which creates an information power disparity that is inevitable with the current organizational structures.