CIA director announces sweeping reorganization of spy agency

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Mar 6, 5:26 PM EST

CIA director announces sweeping reorganization of spy agency

By KEN DILANIAN
AP Intelligence Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Director John Brennan has ordered a sweeping reorganization of the CIA, an overhaul designed to make its leaders more accountable and close espionage gaps amid widespread concerns about the spy agency's limited insights into a series of major global developments.

Brennan announced the restructuring to the CIA workforce on Friday, including a new directorate devoted to boosting the CIA's computer hacking skills. He said the move comes after nine outside experts spent three months analyzing the agency's management structure, including what deputy CIA director David Cohen called "pain points," organizational areas where the CIA's bureaucracy does not work efficiently.

Briefing reporters with Cohen at CIA headquarters this week, Brennan said the changes are necessary to address intelligence gaps that the CIA is not covering. He lamented that there is often no single person he can hold accountable for the spying mission in any given part of the world.

"There are a lot of areas that I would like to have better insight to, better information about, better access to," Brennan said. "Safe havens, denied areas. Whether because we don't even have a diplomatic presence in a country, or because there are parts of countries that have been overrun and taken over by terrorist groups and others."



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[blkmusclmachine]

1. HA!

[djean111]

2. The time when I would believe anything like that has long since passed.

[TwilightGardener]

4. Why does Brennan still have a job after lying and illegally searching

Senate computers?

[Comrade Grumpy]

5. Are they going to quit waging their own foreign policy? Are they getting rid of secret armies?

[silvershadow]

6. Call me cynical, but any time I hear of sweeping reorganization, I immediately think

"further compartmentalization, obfuscation, and sweeping under the rug". As if they, of all agencies, need more of that. Rolling my eyes.

[Judi Lynn]

7. "We’re All Spies Now: CIA Director Announces Major Restructuring"

We’re All Spies Now: CIA Director Announces Major Restructuring
By Ryan Devereaux @rdevro

The director of the CIA announced this week a major overhaul of the agency’s organizational structure ending the traditional separation between spies and analysts, while also creating a new division to handle cyberwarfare.

Director John Brennan officially announced the restructure to agency employees on Friday. Thousands of spies and CIA analysts will be reassigned to new posts, marking one of the most significant changes to the agency’s core structure in its 67-year history.

“Never has the need for the full and unfettered integration of our capabilities been greater,” Brennan said in a declassified statement to his employees.

Under the new model, spies and analysts will be integrated and assigned to 10 new mission centers, which, according to Brennan, “will bring the full range of operational, analytic, support, technical, and digital personnel and capabilities to bear on the nation’s most pressing security issues and interests.” Describing the new mission centers, Brennan said, “Assistant Directors will be accountable for integrating and advancing the mission—in all of its various forms—and for overall mission accomplishment in their respective geographic or functional area.”

More:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/06/spies-now-cia-director-announces-major-restructuring/

[grasswire]

8. unfettered integration, he wants

scary words, there

[father founding]

9. where was it again ?

Time to refurbish the old bomb shelter.

[candelista]

10. Will this enable them to finally see their toes with a flashlight?

I doubt it. Besides, I don't know if I want them to be "more efficient." It might not be such a good idea for America.

[roamer65]

11. Bullshit.

Last president who promised to REALLY reorg them...well you ALL know what happened to him.

Even Harry Truman felt remorse for creating the agency.