Pentagon Creates Secret Spy Service on the Sly

The
Washington
Post today reports that the Defense Department on instructions
from the Defense Secretary, appearantly unhappy with the intelligence
they were getting from the CIA, has established a separate intelligence
agency. Tired of all those pessimistic worryworts over in Langley whining
about quagmires and exit strategies, the administration hopes that
the new agency can come up with a less pessimistic, more uplifting product
for
the President’s
morning intellignece breifings….

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon, expanding into the CIA’s historic bailiwick,
has created an espionage arm and is reinterpreting US law to give Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld broad authority over clandestine operations
abroad, according to interviews with participants and documents obtained
by the Washington Post.

The previously undisclosed organization, called the Strategic
Support Branch, arose from Rumsfeld’s written order to end his ”near
total dependence on CIA" for what is known as human intelligence.

And not a moment too soon. From the Dowbrigade’s point of view,
there has been an alarming lack of human intellignece in Washington
for the
past
few
years.

from the
Washington Post via the Boston Globe