Report Faults U.S. Spy Agencies

Photo: Dennis C. Blair, the director of national intelligence. Haraz N. Ghanbari/Associated Press

From The New York Times:

WASHINGTON — A withering internal report made public on Wednesday criticized the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for bureaucratic bloat, financial mismanagement and a failure to end the turf battles among America’s spy agencies that led to disastrous intelligence failures in recent years.

The report, by the inspector general, was the most detailed account to date of problems that bedevil America’s intelligence agencies more than four years after Congress and President George W. Bush created the director’s office to overcome weaknesses exposed by the Sept. 11 attacks.

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My Comment: No accountability or responsibility if something goes wrong. A bureaucratic culture of CYA. A huge institution with tens of thousands of employees, multi-billions of dollars, and politicians who can never provide proper oversight on policy and operations because the of the size of the institution .... all of this and more will only make the United States less safer and more vulnerable to attack and/or espionage in the future.

Therefore .... the outcome of this report is no surprise to me. How can Government run intelligence institutions with efficiency when almost every other agency or program in government is never run efficiently and/or under budget. The culture and mentality of working for government guarantees failure and inefficiencies .... something that this report clearly lays out.