Musing: CIA & DHS

Published on December 13, 2004 By stevendedalus In Politics

How is it the CIA cannot live up to its namesake? Is it not supposed to “centralize” intelligence? It is bogus to assume territorial sanctity of the FBI to guard data concerning national defense.

Homeland Security is supposed to coordinate national security, and yet not coordinate intelligence? — give me a break!

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Comments

T_Bone4Justice

on Dec 14, 2004

The root of this problem is the promotion system within the CIA, HSD, and DOJ. The rank and file get promoted based on how many prosecutions, arrests, or successful operations they respectively have, therefore, they are territorial over their cases. Upper management gets good press and the institutions get larger budgets based on their respective successes which also leads to "turf battles." I am not sure how to solve this "turff" problem or whether it can even be solved because it is so entrenched.

stevendedalus

on Dec 16, 2004

How sadly true, but turf identity can be protected by a central director who gets off his ass and meets close up the investigators in the field

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