bad intelligence = sheer stupidity

[stellanoir]

I've said this before and I'll keep saying it.

With this whole Goss/Hayden thingy burbling up I have to repost this.

"Aaaaand could someone "pullease" elucidate for me the seemingly nonexistent subtle distinction and difference between homeland security and national security. . .? That whole ruse is especially perturbing to me.

Let's see Prior to 9/11 we had at least three so called intelligence organizations not communicating with each other so the "towering geniuses" in charge create another big bloated behemoth bureaucracy that can't even remotely handle an adequate response to a hurricane.

How anyone considers this good governance totally escapes me. Is there anyone else who sees "bad intelligence" as being nothing other than sheer stupidity?

Then the CIA gets routinely discredited, undermined, one of their key covert operatives gets outed, and the subsequent erosion of one of their key organizations decimated who just happen to have been conveniently researching WMD's in Iran. No irony there.

If they really cared about human intelligence resources around the world, why don't they consider a little less bullying and a invoking a boatload more diplomacy so foreigners might even consider for a nanosecond working with us again. I but I forget. These people are incapable of diplomacy."

Yikes. It's just all so counter intuitive.

Okay if I go on my brain will explode.

Have a nice day.

[XNASA]

1. I think I know the answer.

Hopefully it will prevent any explosions.

The answer is......$$$$$$.

Money.

[stellanoir]

2. Hey wow

Our government has turned in to

A GAME SHOW !!!

When do we all get our NEWWWW CARS ???

It sure ain't a reality show though OTOH machaivellian individuals being rewarded for the worst in so called behaviors through overt greed, incessant misrepresentations, and manipulations does have it's resonance.

Gee and is $$$ really a symbol for money?

You enlighten me all the time my friend. I truly suck at this capitalism stuff.

[XNASA]

3. I have to keep it simple.

For my own good. :)

[stellanoir]

4. Now you've gone and inspired an earworm for the

intro bass line to Floyd's "Money"

"doo doo doo doo do do do do do doo doo doo doo do do do do do doo..."

Betchya never knew how to do the keyboard equivalent of morse code for the bass guitar. :)

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. As I see it, national security is concerned with providing security

to the nation. Homeland security is concerned with creating an American KGB.

And there was no 'bad intelligence'. There was only fraudulant intelligence. There were plenty of people providing good intelligence, but they were ignored in favor of what the administration wanted to hear. Which was created by Chalabi and Rummy's OSP.

[stellanoir]

6. I think you're totally correct on both counts.

The pervasively disingenuous nomenclature just will forever infuriate me though.