{"id":794,"date":"2004-07-23T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-23T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=794"},"modified":"2004-07-23T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-23T14:07:00","slug":"794","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>THE REFORM THE IC REALLY NEEDS<\/b><\/p>\n<p>More HUMINT. More and varied analysts with linguistic skills. Coordination of the IC &nbsp;in an an &#8221; Intelligence War Cabinet &#8221; headed by a real spymaster DCI with open-door Oval Office access and the National Security Advisor as vice-chairman.&nbsp; Currently the CIA seems to do little other than reanalyze, repeatedly, intel that collected by the SIGINT agencies, the DIA and the individual branch MI services &#8211; all of which have analyzed the same data before passing it along. We need to get the CIA back into robust&nbsp;intel collection and recruitment of agents of influence, who are actually more important than mere &#8221; spies&#8221; in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>America needs an intel &#8220;Czar&#8221; &nbsp;like we need another <a href=\"http:\/\/pw1.netcom.com\/~ncoic\/cia_info.htm\">Church Committee<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE REFORM THE IC REALLY NEEDS More HUMINT. More and varied analysts with linguistic skills. Coordination of the IC &nbsp;in an an &#8221; Intelligence War Cabinet &#8221; headed by a real spymaster DCI with open-door Oval Office access and the National Security Advisor as vice-chairman.&nbsp; Currently the CIA seems to do little other than reanalyze, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}