01-01-2014, 06:50 PM
Tracy Riddle Wrote:During the recent government shutdown, I heard on NPR that Military Intelligence lost none of its people, while the CIA was forced to furlough about 70% of its employees. I think that speaks volumes about who is the top dog in the intelligence community.
The remaining 30% were well capable of controlling CIA's interests. You have to realize that scaling back occurred at a point when CIA had just finished expanding its power further than it ever had under ex CIA Director son Bush. The true lesson here, as Joan Mellen writes above, is that CIA had succeeded in deploying the military as an extension of itself to the fullest extent possible. Once this deployment is done under the CIA template, the military then takes over. I think you're missing the pattern of plausible deniability here. I'd bet most of that 70% were the 'honest' HQ schleps doing paperwork and monitoring.