24-04-2013, 11:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 24-04-2013, 11:55 PM by Adele Edisen.)
Quote:April 19, 2013 "Information Clearing House" -"WAIA" - In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday March 12, 2013, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper reaffirmed what the U.S. intelligence community has been saying for years: Iran has no nuclear weapons program, is not building a nuclear weapon and has not even made a decision to do so.
This is the DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, for Pete's sake. How many intelligence agencies does he supervise? Certainly the CIA is one of his agencies - you know, the one that knows EVERYTHING. So James Clapper must be able to know even more than the CIA, wouldn't one think?
From Wikipedia:
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Quote:The United States Intelligence Community (IC) is a cooperative federation of 16 separate United States government agencies that work separately and together to conduct intelligence activities considered necessary for the conduct of foreign relations and national security of the United States. Member organizations of the IC include intelligence agencies, military intelligence, and civilian intelligence and analysis offices within federal executive departments. The IC is led by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), who reports to the President of the United States. (Bold emphasis mine - AE)
Among their varied responsibilities, the members of the Community collect and produce foreign and domestic intelligence, contribute to military planning, and perform espionage. The IC was established by Executive Order 12333, signed on December 4, 1981, by President Ronald Reagan.[1]
The Washington Post has reported that there are 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] According to a 2008 study by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, private contractors make up 29% of the workforce in the US intelligence community and cost the equivalent of 49% of their personnel budgets.[3]
Adele