http://news.antiwar.com/2011/10/28/intel-spending-pentagon-sees-cuts-cia-sees-increases/
Military reliance on CIA to increase, writes Jason Ditz.
See the video 'Top Secret America' I posted on these links in last day or two, also. Is most relevant...
Even if you're 'pro' US war machine... is reliance on the shadowy, unregulated CIA for military intelligence, a good thing?
I believe some things cannot be outsourced to private interests - it fills me with dread to think of an organisation as susceptible to corruption and illegal operations as the CIA, running something as important as intelligence for the world's greatest military... with all the effects that will have on that nation's taxpayers, and on the people's lives they turn upside down in pursuit of their phantom 'terrorists'...
Private education, anyone? Healthcare?
Do you think the CIA will be open and communicate properly? Share what they know? Am I right or wrong to think of them as independent of the US government, a law unto themselves?
Have set viewing on this to 'everyone', if we don't have a level-playing field within the group... I would like to hear both sides of the argument on this?
US intel cost published for first time, about this time last year - news to me...
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http://news.antiwar.com/2010/10/28/massive-us-intel-cost-unveiled-80-billion-for-2010/
RT reports '40% of US intelligence overseas directed at UK'...
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I'm not crazy about the shift in the CIA's primary assignment of collecting intelligence to the realm of ordering military strikes based on it. The organization is shadowy because the function of collecting intelligence has to be clandestine. Moving that to the realm of giving it military muscle is not good, it turns it into the KGB. I really don't think we will be well served by going there.
AntwortenLöschenLOL um......NO. The CIA serves itself and when it has time......the USA. Talk about an organization in need of an overhaul.
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