‘The stars have been aligning on this… ‘

The Intelligent Community.

The Pentagon plans to increase America’s international spy network, by expanding the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), a military ring that will become comparable in size to the CIA.

A new generation of recruits will work alongside civilian colleagues and elite military commando units.

Their priorities will include such issues as “fundamentalism in Africa, the growth of China’s military, and weapons transfers by the secretive North Korean regime”.[1]

A quick look at Wikipedia shows there are already…

“… 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies in 10,000 locations in the United States that are working on counterterrorism, homeland security, and intelligence, and that the intelligence community as a whole includes 854,000 people who hold top-secret clearances.”[2]

A former senior military official involved in planning all this apparently told the Washington Post: “The stars have been aligning on this for a while.”  (Thanks for the headline!)

Cosmic stuff, indeed! It seems to me the US will soon be at the point where there are more spies than suspects – an interesting, if absurd, scenario.

[1]: The Independent

[2]: Wikipedia

Image: Wikipedia

Tags: CIA, DIA, Pentagon, spy network, US intelligence