The most difficult part is for a person to accept change.  While many people, even  you dear reader, may scoff at that notion, no human being enjoys any kind of change in their life, life pattern that removes them from a comfort zone.  What does have to do with Intelligence?  Same thing I have been discussing since 1992 but on that front it concerns the Military.  In order for the Military to survive, thrive, grow, and continue to do it’s essential mission to protect ‘The People” of/and the United States of America, the Military has to adapt and change.

     Same concept goes for the Intelligence communities.  While intelligence is a hugely vast and complex undertaking on it’s own, the final results and analysis of collected intelligence can easily be funneled into one arena.  What B.E.V. is using as a reference to understand the Intelligence Community is a book by Jeffrey T. Richelson, “The US Intelligence Community” fifth edition.  I am still reading as I put out my blog post, but in light on the continued fractured ability for our Intelligence communities to ‘get it right’, I stated B.E.V. would put forth a possible solution.  It’s not so much the Intelligence Communities but it is again the Politicians in Washington D.C. that are the cause of the process being maligned.  Just as B.E.V. has pointed out consecutively with problems that plague our Military, it’s the Politicians who keep sticking their fingers into the jars and creating problems. 

     The solutions: 

1. I am an American, I support and defend the U.S. Constitution and The People without reservation, without self interest, and I do this freely of my own volition and free will.
2. I am a self serving individual, my purpose in life is to amass my own personal power and fortune for my own selfish use at my own discretion no matter who gets harmed in the process of me achieving my goal.

First step is for “YOU” to choose…One or Two.  There is no third.  For the Nation to survive….there is no third hybrid, gray area option.  In reality, you have to be, and are either of number one, or number two.

    What’s in a name?  Names reflect objects, persons, places, ideas, organizations….to properly show ‘what’ they are.  With people, it’s more ‘nicknames’ that reflect, not their given names because if that is the case..’Mohammad’ was nothing more than a mass murderer. 

    There are four organizations that “provide intelligence for national-level policymakers”…and they are the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).    Three are aptly and properly named for the job and services they provide.  One is not.  This is the change.  The CIA.  Central Intelligence Agency.  Just by the name, common sense would conclude that this is the one stop shop for all intelligence for our Nation. 

     This is where all intelligence should be sent to so quick, decisive action can be taken unless immediate action is required by operators in the field where on-site leadership decides what to do while reporting in as time permits.

     Part two of change, what we must do sometimes is to reach into the past in order to build for our future.  To build a building, you dig a hole, to build a ship, you lay a keel, this has been time tested, proven, necessary steps each and every time.  New steps often end in failure, disaster, tears.  But sometimes admittedly, new steps provide a better process, a new idea, direction, solutions. 

   Reaching into the past, what must be resurrected is the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) whose functions then, and now, would be “espionage, covert action (ranging from propaganda to sabotage), counterintelligence.”   Those functions often thought and done by the CIA. 

    This would move the operators further away from the never ending meddling by politicians who are of option number 2.   As well as give the CIA, it’s true mission by name and a place to get answers immediately and have someone accountable should a Detroit Fruit in the Kaboom bomber situation arise. 

    Other changes that must come are the disestablishment of “Homeland Security”, which is a huge bureaucracy that is becoming a failure.  The CIA would be able to perform all ‘intelligence’ duties that are now being done by DHS, with airport security to be moved back to individual private companies, airports, municipalities, monitored by the Federal Air Marshal Service which would fall within the United States Marshals Service,  all under the DOJ.   This later aspect is easy.  Just as with the Armed Forces falling under the Department of Defense,  much of our civilian law enforcement can be realigned and fall under the DOJ. FBI,  USMS, FAMS, Border Patrol, ICE, ATF, and all current federal law enforcement agencies under DOJ,  which as with the military, have these law enforcement agencies to be better able to cooperate cross service. 

     Intelligence must be ‘consolidated’ and with consolidation comes change, closure for some, but good of the Nation must over ride the basic human fear of change.  The Central Intelligence Agency should reflect it’s name for the final stop of all intelligence collected by the various entities that protect our Nation and it’s People. 

   This may not be the end all answer...and most will argue against this simplistic approach.....but how many others are stepping forward with solutions and not accusations?   B.E.V. will be happy to assist in any way to move progress forward for this Nation's sake.