Government shutdown hits intelligence community

[Tracy Riddle]

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that roughly 70 percent of the intelligence workforce including staff from the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency has been furloughed.

"I've been in the intelligence business for about 50 years. I've never seen anything like this," Clapper said at the hearing on the controversial spy programs.
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/20...ughed.html

I wonder if McAdams and Von Pein are still getting their paychecks.

[Tracy Riddle]

I heard on PBS that Military Intelligence is exempt from the government shutdown. I guess we know who is really on top in the intelligence community.

[David Guyatt]

I feel sure that all the major intel outfits and needed military - and police too, surely? - will be kept in clover while everyone else suffers.

Governments know where their real power base is kept.