Tuesday, November 23, 2004
CIA/DIA
Brendan Miniter explains why the recent delay of the "National Intelligence Reform" is best for the country. I strongly concur that to place a "Czar" in micromanaging control of military assets is a recipe for disaster and increased death toll in the military:
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....The problems here are obvious. The intelligence czar, who was expected to occupy office space within the CIA, would likely end up draining intelligence resources away from the military to meet the needs of the CIA, FBI and other civilian spy agencies. That could leave soldiers in the field without the critical, real-time intelligence they need to fight on the modern battlefield--what House Armed Services Chairman Duncan Hunter calls the soldiers' "lifeline." To use a current example, if this was already in place, soldiers fighting in Fallujah might not have had the satellite linkups they needed to study the changing battlefield. Money and technology aside, the military also feared the intelligence director would pull essential personnel away from military duties--something explicitly within his power under the Senate's plan......
