Our Intelligence

http://www.cnas.org/node/3924

A wonderfully honest, if cynical and scornful, report on the United States' intelligence failings.

Between this and Gen. McChrystal's public domain requests for more troops in Afghanistan it makes me wonder about the status of the Pentagon and the Capital if our military leaders feel that they need to publicly state their case in order to be heard or cause reform. Should we be frightened (further) that so many of our dollars go to the umpteen intelligence services, and the results are ...useless?

When the Cold War ended and the "Spy War" document's were released it was obvious then that we may have beaten the USSR in the end, they kicked our asses in the espionage game. With a smaller budget. We spend millions on inventions, on bribes, on secret facilities and untraceable vehicles, and banana republics... and yet, a the CIA was infiltrated by a double agent. Our double agent's never seem to blow up anyone's base... we just hear about how a 1 million dollar drone fired a quarter million dollar missile into a cave or brick hut to kill 2 militants.

The media does a good enough job destroying our civilian morale and faith in this war without having our bureaucrats undermining our generals, or having our monstrous intelligence community fail at supporting and educating the people who really matter about the things that really matter.