Reforming The ODNI And The National Intelligence Community: A Strategic Imperative For The 21st Century Part 6
Any Updates? Nope: You Can’t Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd.
Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Any Updates? Nope: You Can’t Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd.
Taming The Renegades And Getting Back To The Core Raison D’Etre: Unification of The Intelligence Community
The Causality Express: How The ODNI Became Politicized To The Point Of Failure: Incremental Peter Principle Policy
The Senate Shows Some Big Bagels And Says No To Politicization Of The DCI: Or Did They?
In Order To Fix A Problem We Have To Acknowledge It And Also Figure Out How It Came To Be
We Spend More Money On The IC Than Ever And Continue To Suffer Embarrassing Intelligence Failures: And We May Be Just Warming Up
We Fund the Director of National Intelligence and the Intelligence Community at >50B a Year, yet Ukraine, Afghanistan and the DC Pipe-Bomber Were Mysteries of Life-and now this Debacle
It was 20 years ago (18 October 2002) the Director of Central Intelligence was briefed on the results of his tasker to the National Reconnaissance Office and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency to assess the NRO Future Imagery Architecture Program and determine the risk for a gap in intel capability due to its schedule delays.
Red Sox break the curse of the Babe, Boeing proposes miracles in their proposal and the GAP Study focuses on the timing, extent and duration of the problem.
First 8 articles recap, Sputnik flies, U2 and SR-71 are developed, Corona project is the first space reconnaissance system, Doc’s space-time continuum is disrupted.
NRO declassified, NIMA established, Clapper becomes NIMA Dir, USGIF Symposium and GEOINT Functional Manager role established. Murder of Tina Ricca shakes up national intelligence, NRO DIR Harris, and Dep DIR Jimmie D. Hill are fired
NGA Director Lt Gen (USAF, Ret) James R. Clapper is fired by SECDEF Rumsfeld for not toeing the party line, USDI Cambone finesses moving a lot of agency funding over to the DNI/NIP while pressing the case that they should stay under DoD, the Murder of Tina Ricca has a ripple effect in the National Intelligence Community that leads to the discovery of the new NRO building and the firing of leadership
Secretary Rumsfeld’s USDI gambit, Clapper and Hagel face-off on Peloozi and Obama’s Sequestration follies that screw over civil service workers, NRO DIR Sapp is lied to much like former DIR Bruce Carlson, the Tina Ricca murder is a puzzlement to congress and Fairfax County reopens it as a cold case.
Government Malfeasance at Taxpayer Expense: Same as it Ever Was