Barton Gellman and Greg Miller of the Post reportthat the U.S. has spent more than $500 billion on intelligence since September 11, 2001, and during that time ittransformed “a spy service struggling to emerge from the Cold War into a paramilitary force.”
And?
What John Mace said.
The “paramilitary” part alone is easily inferred from the fact that just now, the CIA is in the process of (or has just completed) turning over Predator drone operations to the DoD.
Why do the call if “intelligence” It’s so often wrong or at least slanted. Well, when the control freaks get paranoid. watch out!
It’s happened before. The CIA used to have major paramilitary forces back in the fifties and sixties.
Most intelligence agencies succumb to the temptation of going beyond their mission of gathering intelligence and start carrying out operations. There’s the desire to stop just watching things happen and go out and make things happen.
Would you like a moderator to transfer this to MPSIMS? All you have to do is report your own post.
georgewk10, the general practice on this forum is to provide a thesis to defend, (or, at minimum, to ask a question that has a very high probability of fostering a debate).
Simply posting links is frowned upon. We do tolerate these, on occasion, when they appear to match the second scenario described, above, but we do not encourage the practice.
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