National Intelligence (Or Actually The Lack Of It)

April 20, 2006 -- Today, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte is delivering a speech at the National Press Club in which he will pat himself on the back for the great job his bureaucracy of 1500 is doing to streamline intelligence to those who need it. However, a senior U.S. intelligence professional scoffs at Negroponte's so-called "accomplishments." The official sent along the diagram below that shows DNI as just another bloated, idle, and expanding bureaucracy. According to the official, some of Negroponte's and his deputy Gen. Michael Hatden's "accomplishments" include:
1. Parametric data linking signals intelligence (SIGINT) and electronic intelligence (ELINT) to overhead imagery intelligence (IMINT) is virtually non-existent.

2. SIGINT and ELINT databases have no tools to ensure the data is usable for field activities and "war fighters."

3. Analysts concentrate on SIGINT message texts and not on the frequencies and other parametric data. This has caused a number of "friendly fire" incidents in Iraq and Afghanistan and the failure to adequately recognize threat frequencies from the cordless and cellular phones used to detonate improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Iraq.

4. It now takes one year to get updated technical data to field military units from the National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Air & Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

5. The management at NSA's Weapons and Space Data Services branch is largely incompetent -- some of the databases they rely on are 35 years old. For example, they contain data on the armed forces of the USSR, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Yugoslavia, and Rhodesia -- nations that no longer exist.

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Once again we have proven the old adage that, "We're ready to fight the fight that never was or the fight that is already over."