Posted on Nov 22, 2015
Should Intelligence Officers be ‘Hunters’ or ‘Gatherers’?
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Today, with the exponential rise of the ISIS threat –both foreign and domestic- along with the budget challenges, Colonel (Ret.) Philip Lisagor reflects on the objective of Intelligence Officers at the Central Intelligence Agency and their approach to collecting information.
Nice article to put into perspective what happened since January.
Thoughts?
http://ciceromagazine.com/opinion/organizational-drift-why-u-s-intelligence-missed-the-rise-of-isis/
Nice article to put into perspective what happened since January.
Thoughts?
http://ciceromagazine.com/opinion/organizational-drift-why-u-s-intelligence-missed-the-rise-of-isis/
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There is need for both. The gatherers direct the hunters to the targets.
Our problems with intelligence recently are due to an over-reliance on technical methods of information gathering and a diminution of human sources - combined with a lack of interest in intelligence products on the part of the current administration, whose main concern is domestic partisan politics.
Our problems with intelligence recently are due to an over-reliance on technical methods of information gathering and a diminution of human sources - combined with a lack of interest in intelligence products on the part of the current administration, whose main concern is domestic partisan politics.
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Capt Seid Waddell
Pentagon Expands Inquiry Into Intelligence on ISIS Surge
The Pentagon has seized a trove of emails and documents as it widens an investigation into Central Command over accusations that officials had overstated the progress of airstrikes against the Islamic State.
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CPT Alfred Smiley
Yes, I have. I've also had my own first-hand experience with being pressured to "doctor" intelligence analysis and reporting during the 1980s in Central America. I determined to report things as I found them and not give in to pressure to put a spin on them.
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Capt Seid Waddell
CPT Alfred Smiley, what you referred to as my "personal political commentary" above was actually my observation of the man over the past seven years. Observations that you too evidently have made.
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CPT Maria Burns
CPT Alfred Smiley - You're not the only one who's been asked to tailor reporting to rationalize a mission.
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Both are important, but as a 35M Instructor, I will always lean toward "Gatherer" as that is always the beginning to any great and successful "Hunt". The prey consistently changes and no longer conforms to what was gathered last, and without gathering updates, as the article indicates, whole organizations become blind to a now non-applicable prey whose former hunting ground and tactics have long since expired/expanded.
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