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incompetence upon incompetence: Bamford/NYT/Rent a Spy: "So we're all just sitting there looking at each other, and we're making a ridiculous amount of money."
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 07:32:44 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow <geoffg () gmail com> Date: June 14, 2004 1:40:29 AM EDT To: dave () farber netSubject: incompetence upon incompetence: Bamford/NYT/Rent a Spy: "So we're all just sitting there looking at each other, and we're making a ridiculous amount of money."
Reply-To: geoff.goodfellow () iconia com THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR This Spy for Rent By JAMES BAMFORD WASHINGTON -- Assessing, cultivating and recruiting spies has long been a key job of Central Intelligence Agency officers. But now it is the C.I.A. officers themselves who are being assessed, cultivated and recruited — sometimes right out of the agency's cafeteria. In what is leading to a critical spy drain, private companies are aggressively seeking highly trained employees of our espionage agencies to fill government contracts. With the resignation of George Tenet as director of central intelligence and the final hearings of the 9/11 commission this week, the stage is set for the first major restructuring of the intelligence community in decades. While there has been much discussion of moving agencies and creating an "intelligence czar," the privatization of our spies has been largely overlooked. The C.I.A. is awash in money as a result of post-9/11 budget increases. But because of the general uncertainty over the future, it faces a long delay before it can recruit, train and develop a new generation of spies and analysts. So for now it is building up its staff by turning to the "intelligence-industrial complex." --snip-- http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/13/opinion/13BAMF.html ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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