What's THIS? New "National Clandestine Service" >>>

[Stephanie]

What does this mean?


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051013/pl_afp/usintelligence_051013162323

Bush gives CIA oversight of all US espionage operations
38 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) -President George W. Bush has approved the creation of a National Clandestine Service within the Central Intelligence Agency to oversee all US espionage operations, the government said.

***

The creation of the National Clandestine Service was announced jointly by the CIA and the Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte, the new overseer of the US intelligence community under the reforms.

CIA Director Porter Goss, who lost the intelligence oversight role in the shuffle, was designated the manager of national human intelligence. Human intelligence is bureaucratic jargon for espionage and covert operations.

***

The statement described the NCS as "the national authority for the integration, coordination, deconfliction, and evaluation of human intelligence operations across the entire Intelligence Community."

[ck4829]

1. It's to watch people domestically

Since the CIA isn't allowed to do it.

I'll bet you a Cola that's what it's for.

[readmoreoften]

2. National CLANDESTINE Service? Huh?

What's next Operation Root-Out Evil Americans? The National Agency of Sneaky Spookiness?

And what is DECONFLICTION. Is that a real word?

[soothsayer]

3. it's a military word, evidently. Looky:

http://www.forscom.army.mil/interop/osb_jndl_pulsedecon.htm

Pulse Deconfliction:
The JNDL is directed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) to manage and maintain the JTIDS Pulse Deconfliction Server. CJCSI 6231.01C, “Deconflicting JTIDS/MIDS Operations” is applicable to all US forces operating JTIDS/MIDS within the boundaries of the United States and its Possessions. It also states that ALL JTIDS/MIDS operations must be deconflicted using the Pulse Deconfliction Server.
Frequent Pulse Deconfliction Questions and Answers
Who must Deconflict?


Service-designated Deconfliction Coordinators.



What must you Deconflict?
All JTIDS/MIDS operations must be deconflicted.

Who do you Deconflict with?
All units within the designated radius (currently 200nm) from the unit.

How do you Deconflict?
Use the Deconfliction Server to identify JTIDS/MIDS users to each other.

[ArbustoBuster]

4. Deconfliction is a perfectly cromulent word.

Bureaucratic-speak. I hate it.

[newyawker99]

14. Hi ArbustoBuster!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[acmejack]

5. Trouble

They can deconflict this!

[true_notes]

6. It's the English translation of "Gestapo" n/t

[Stephanie]

8. Is it? Is this so the CIA can do domestic spying?

I am freaked out by this.

[H2O Man]

12. In theory,

it allows the CIA to investigate those who are involved in espionage. This is "in theory." It seems odd, as the DoJ has a counterintelligence unit that investigates suspected espionage, making use of the FBI's talents.

[Stephanie]

13. Looks like it hands all the reigns to Negroponte

:scared:

[jokerman93]

7. THIS is serious

If you think Chomsky is a windbag, don't bother with this link. I don't, so here it is:

In Honduras, Negroponte was known as 'the proconsul', a title given to powerful administrators in colonial times." There, he presided over the second largest embassy in Latin America, with the largest CIA station in the world at that time - and not because Honduras was a centrepiece of world power.

Robbins observed that Negroponte has been criticised by human-rights activists for "covering up abuses by the Honduran military" - a euphemism for large-scale state terror - "to ensure the flow of US aid" to this vital country, which was "the base for President Reagan's covert war against Nicaragua's Sandinista government."

http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20040806.htm

This is not a nice man. People have disappeared under his "administration".

Start digging all you journalists of the new free press!

[Missy M]

9. When can we create the National National Service to oversee....

the entire government, including the president?

[Walt Starr]

10. Well, since the White House blew the cover on the OLD Clandestine

service...

:evilgrin:

[Straight Shooter]

11. One more crack in the intelligence agencies for vital info to fall through

And beyond that, it's an ill wind that Negroponte blows.