Dave, yeah, the problem is she (nor the admin) has the power to hire and fire the careerists.

They know that.

However I'd like to know how many Clinton 'liberal' quasi-Marxist holdovers, who can be fired, are still employed at State.

I have a horrible feeling we'd be shocked to learn how many.

Proud member of the all-powerful and vast militarist/industrialist/capitalist/zionist-bagelist complex

yes, that is the question.  WHY?  There's some reason for the hesitation and reluctance to go after them, I doubt it would be that difficult to pursue.  It is the most infuriating thing, next the NYT attempts to hurt this country and its ability to fight terrorism. 

Are you from Cape Cod?

"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere"          -Ali ibn-Abi-Talib, 4th Islamic Caliph

The problem with intelligence as a whole was that the entire community began to rely too heavily on SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) which is a great source of intelligence, but it doesn't get you all you need.  HUMINT (Human Intellgeince) was placed on a backburner. It was a common complaint throughout the community and one that it is still recovering from.  SIGINT received the lion's share of funding throughout the late 80s and 90s.  Because of this, reporting from the field decreasing in quantity and quality.  It's no secret that efforts to infiltrate various terrorist organizations went undone due to lack of money and priority.  One could compare it with the overconfidence the western world felt prior to the Titanic disaster of 1912. It was believed that we could overcome anything through the use of industrial technology at that time. Compare that with the use of SIGINT. We believed that anything could be overcome through the use of modern SIGINT capabilities and platforms.  HUMINT was considered a thing of the past, archaic and a thing of a world that had done away with "nasty" spies, etc.

Regarding technology, even in military intelligence we received no computer upgrades for years at a time.  Events were ruled by petty politics. One organization would receive less funding or technological upgrades due to bias within the system.  This still happens within the system, particularly with those subunified commands who depend on their parent unified command for funding. 

Additionally, intelligence sharing is always a tricky business due to perceived leaks and original sources. I actually ran into situations where one agency would steal intelligence from fellow analysts from another agency and claim it as their own. It was often times pathetic.

It was always a joke, but sometimes joked about seriously, how back-stabbing was one subject they taught in the Intelligence School.

Another problem was the lack of standardization. This is still a problem. There is a complete lack of standardization within the agencies and even within the military. So often times databases have to be restructured and given in various other forms just so they can be passed to various other organizations.

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