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L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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The more I read, the more I realise that the USA Intelligence Community are as bureaucratic and useless as the French government.

9/11 was avoidable, if red tape and dick measuring weren't SOP in the CIA/FBI/NSA and law enforcement bodies.
But that's just human. People are always railing about the evils of bureaucracies, etc. But they exist, and are created naturally by human societies, for a reason. Security, stability, the ability to shoulder collective blame rather than send one person overboard for a decision, etc. They serve a function, but we only focus on them being a) unnecessary and b) having no positive value. Both are untrue and overly simplistic analyses.
 

Hust

Senior Member
Hustini
May 29, 2005
93,703
But that's just human. People are always railing about the evils of bureaucracies, etc. But they exist, and are created naturally by human societies, for a reason. Security, stability, the ability to shoulder collective blame rather than send one person overboard for a decision, etc. They serve a function, but we only focus on them being a) unnecessary and b) having no positive value. Both are untrue and overly simplistic analyses.
Yep.

Can't tell you how many threats I hear about all the time that are neutralized from people that work for the DOS, FBI, CIA, etc...only place I haven't met someone that works for is the NSA. We find shit all the time but all people hear about in the news are the ones that we missed. :howler:

Prime example: The guy here in the US that claims to be al-qaeda (spelling?) that we tricked into thinking he was going to bomb the Capital building. As a result, we found other leads through this guys stupidity.
 

IrishZebra

Western Imperialist
Jun 18, 2006
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you're only as good as your f'ups, but before talking the froggies down when was the last time ireland was relevant?
Depends on your definition on relevant I should think, maybe Waterloo when an Irishman bitchslapped Napoleon...

But that's just human. People are always railing about the evils of bureaucracies, etc. But they exist, and are created naturally by human societies, for a reason. Security, stability, the ability to shoulder collective blame rather than send one person overboard for a decision, etc. They serve a function, but we only focus on them being a) unnecessary and b) having no positive value. Both are untrue and overly simplistic analyses.
It's interesting though because within the literature the issue of separation or collectivisation on intelligence has completely overlooked the fact that 'competition' between agencies dealing with national security is self-defeating because ICs thrive on cooperation and separation only splinters the bureaucracy instead of ameliorating its negative effects. Malaya 52-4 proved that an IC is only as effective as its inter-service linkages.

My belly is fully of cookies. Debating on which I should do first. Finish my Peace Corps application or my OCS application. Or continue my string of comedic short stories featuring Irish Zeb and his travels in and around the Orient.
The stories. Peace Corps is for faggots.

Damn bro. Welcome to 2002.
This is what I get for not giving a monkeys about the 9/11 commission :/


One of my best friends works at Langley so fuck the haters.
Why would I hate the CIA? One of their directors answered my thesis prayers...
 

Enron

Tickle Me
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Oct 11, 2005
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The stories. Peace Corps is for faggots.


This is what I get for not giving a monkeys about the 9/11 commission :/
1) I've heard the poon tang is outstanding.

2) Yeah, it's pretty absurd. Hope you'll read up on the economic black hole that is Homeland Security.

3) The stories it is.


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Your vocabulary eludes my understanding.
"Read" in your father's woodshed?
 

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