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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMajor Overhaul Set for C.I.A., With Thousands to Be Reassigned
Major Overhaul Set for C.I.A., With Thousands to Be ReassignedBy MARK MAZZETTI at the NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/us/major-overhaul-set-for-cia-with-thousands-to-be-reassigned.html?ref=politics&_r=0
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Ive never seen a time when we have been confronted with such an array of very challenging, complex and serious threats to our national security, and issues that we have to grapple with, he said.
One model for the new divisions is the agencys Counterterrorism Center, an amalgam of undercover spies and analysts charged with hunting, and often killing, militant suspects across the globe. Once a small, occasionally neglected office in the C.I.A., the Counterterrorism Center has grown into a behemoth with thousands of officers since the Sept. 11 attacks as the C.I.A. has taken charge of a number of secret wars overseas.
But Mr. Brennan also cited another model for his new plan: the American military. He said that the Defense Departments structure of having a single military commander in charge of all operations in a particular region the way a four-star commander runs United States Central Command was an efficient structure that led to better accountability.
Mark M. Lowenthal, a former senior C.I.A. analyst, said that the reorganization is not going to go down smoothly at the agency, especially among clandestine spies who have long been able to withhold information from analysts, such as the identity of their foreign agents. The clandestine service is very, very guarded about giving too much information about sources to the analysts, he said.
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Major Overhaul Set for C.I.A., With Thousands to Be Reassigned (Original Post)
applegrove
Mar 2015
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leveymg
(36,418 posts)1. Expect major push-back from the "Bush wing" of spookdom, as when Carter tried to reform the Agency
This is potentially a major game changer. Interesting times.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)2. Truman never expected the CIA to grow into anything like
the monster it became under Allen Dulles. Truman's greatest fear about the CIA was that it would be turned on Americans in America. Which it was.
JFK wanted to "smash the CIA into a thousand pieces" after the Bay of Pigs. Pity he never got the chance.
applegrove
(119,612 posts)3. I would think that with all the world has changed in regards to
psychology, intelligence, computers, the Internet, history, religious extremism and the study of the brain that the Cia would have already morphed into a completely new animal.