Re:What Will Become of the CIA?
by Animats on Monday July 21, 2025 @03:12PM
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The CIA used to be in charge of the US intelligence community, at least on paper.
But since 2004, there's the Director of National Intelligence, who heads an organization with about 1700 people. They supervise CIA, NSA, NRO, and the armed services intelligence agencies, and control the flow of information to the President.
They create the President's Daily Brief, which the CIA used to generate. (Not to be confused with someone's podcast of the same name.) Tulsi Gabbard is the current DNI.
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Re:What Will Become of the CIA?
by JamesSwift on Monday July 21, 2025 @03:26PM
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It should be heavily emphasized that pre and post 9/11 IC are two completely different entities. One of the biggest changes post 9/11 was a fundamental analysis of how our agencies are split up and how they share information.
On paper sure, but ODNI & CIA are interchangeable highside. The NRO is spun off the CIA, NSA’s network sits in a network gated by the CIA, and everything under DIA is overseen by the NSC which is “advised” by the CIA. They also control all HUMINT which is critical to the mission of nearly every agency.
Would also mention the last two DNI were CIA directors. The two before that were NSA directors during a time where the NSA was largely controlled by the CIA and its leadership largely shared positions on the CIA’s senior leadership team.
Re:What Will Become of the CIA?
by actionfromafar on Monday July 21, 2025 @04:54PM
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The existance of the President's brief makes me smirk these days. It's probably a 10 second cartoon now, if it's used at all.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/gabbard-c...
I always picture handpuppets.
"Oh no! A missile is hitting Kiev!" (puppeteer makes sound of explosion like BKSHSH!)
> “The problem with Trump is that he doesn’t read,” said another person with direct knowledge of the PDB discussions. “He’s on broadcast all the time.”