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05-09-2010, 10:27 AM
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Nice Zulu. So what Government Agency is only 300 or so personnel. Or I guess Special Detachment to a govenment Agency.
The latest GIJOE concept is partially inspired by the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), which has just ~150 analysts working for it (compare that with the CIA, which has almost 2000!). Despite its small size, the INR is considered one of the better and more objective US intelligence agencies, largely uninvolved in the bipartisan politics and pissing contests that plague many US government offices. For the most part, the INR was relatively unscathed in the 2004 and 2007 Senate Reports on Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq... IIRC, it was the only intelligence agency that registered official opposition to the 2003 invasion, on the grounds that there wasn't any tangible evidence to directly link the Iraqi government to either Al-Qaeda or the storage of WMDs and that rash US military action might actually enable and empower Al-Qaeda and other similar terrorist groups in areas where they didn't have any significant presence previously. The CIA, on the other hand, got raked over the coals for faulty intelligence-gathering and analysis and misleading policy makers and the American public with unverified claims (whether the misleading was intentional or not is still a hotly debated topic, and I'm not touching that one with a ten foot pole).
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