The fakestream media are still trotting out "high level intelligence officials"
to bemoan how Donald Trump is
"degrading the morale of the intelligence community."
Here are excerpts from a blog post by a REAL intelligence professional
about who is REALLY damaging our spies' morale:

(He also lists the 17 agencies and lays out the turf wars
they're constantly waging against one another.)
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WeaponsMan - Quiet Professionals, Noisy Machinery
http://weaponsman.com/?p=38272
What 17 Intelligence Agencies?

"So, Congress's response to too much bureaucracy in intelligence was to create two more enormous, empire-building, and completely non-operational bureaucracies. ... None of the overhead — the great bulk of the personnel and costs of these agencies — does a thing to secure an adversary's secret or protect a friendly one. Feeling safer, yet?" ...

"ODNI (Office of Director of National Intelligence) is entirely a Beltway political knob-polisher and brings nothing to the intelligence community but more headcount (and a concomitant lowering of the entry bar and product quality). They do, however, have a lot of really flashy document formats, logos, and slide deck templates." ...

"Most of actual production of useful and actionable intelligence is done by individuals and very small teams, usually working for a single agency, often taking the sort of risks that ensure that they, ultimately, won't be promoted, and the teeming HQ credit-thieves will." ...

"Fun facts:
• The majority of our intelligence analysts have never been to the countries or regions on which they're supposedly experts.
• Perhaps 5 or 10% are functional in the languages of their target area. ...
• You can rise to the Senior Executive Service level in any of the agencies without ever having to move from your Maryland or NoVA suburb."

This entry was posted in Intelligence and Espionage, Lord Love a Duck on January 13, 2017 by Hognose.
About Hognose - Former Special Forces weapons man. (Also served in intelligence and operations jobs in SF).
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Here's a relevant link:
http://conservativepoliticalforum.com/political-discussion-and-debate/appears-the-left-wing-obama-cia-lied/msg324186/#msg324186
America's Corrupt Intelligence Community

Yeah its like appointing Susan Rice the national security advisor when she never did a damn thing related to it.