OK, now we have a duo ...
DI is under DNI - wm's proposal for it.
And "DO" is another agency from what I glean from Entropy:
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... should just be the HUMINT collection and covert action agency
as to which, Entropy, does this include all four of the "blacker" functions:
1. Espionage
2. Disinformation
3. Special Operations
4. Counter-intelligence
See, we nearly have the re-orgnization solved - ain't we smart.
forgot to ask - Is this agency under DNI as in wm's proposal for DI ?
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PS: Rex, I like "small shops" - the possibility of a meritocracy with functioning horizontal and vertical lines of communication. Can work for a few hundred people.
Returning to the original issue of this thread.
Does anyone else see a problem for the incoming DNI? For all his experience, Admiral Blair, the nominal and sometimes very real superior of Mr Panetta does not have the personal relationship with the new President that his nominal and sometimes very real subordinate has. Makes me think that the consequences (intended or unintended) of these appointments may well be to denigrate the role of the DNI without attempting to change the legislation. If I were Admiral Blair, I would withdraw my name unless I had written assurances that the DCIA answered to me. (And I'd be fully prepared to use those assurances publicly.:eek:)
Cheers
JohnT
Heh. I got the tip when Ol' Saddam said
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Originally Posted by
Tom Odom
...As for the warning staffs getting it right, yes and no. The warning staffs got it but then the regional wags said no. As I was both warning and regional I said he was going and agreed with myself making me the winner of a self-inflcited argument :D
"Kuwait belongs to Iraq and you should give it to us." The Persian empires dominated the area prior to Islam and Ta'arof was an acquired trait by all in the area...
Does that make me a regional wag??? :wry: