Why Intelligence Community To Fail

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What causes the Intelligence Community to fail, and where should we look to find the answers to correct those failures? When we start to look at how to deal with failures inside the Intelligence Community (IC), I think that we must first look at the top and work our way down. There has to be some sort of personal accountability, even at the top. When I talk about the “top” I am speaking about the Directors, whether it is the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or any of the directors of the various intelligence agencies. The DNI, which was established December 17, 2004, is tasked with coordinating 16 intelligence agencies to ensure…show more content…
But, how can one be “on their game” if part of their focus is on their dislike of another person. Other times, employees will bring up an uneasy working environment to their managers and the manager will do nothing about it, and so on up the line until everyone knows there is a problem in the working group but no one seems to care; because nothing is done to help the group find a solution. This problem goes on and on, the manager is dismissed because his department is ineffective, a new manger comes in, falls to the same end, or, blames his team and disbands them. No one ever tried to deal with the situation of why the team was not productive or was erroneous in so many of its…show more content…
Intentional misrepresentation should be dealt with in the harshest and quickest ability of the department and the law. There should be no leeway in dealing with individuals, or groups, that purposefully falsify assignments; it was a decision that they made and the consequences were known, or should have been seen. Some are lead down this path by official oppression or financially, but the result of their decisions should at best be seen as integrity and reliability issues. In conclusion, we need to search for the root cause of errors, identify them and attempt to correct them by enhancing training and mentorship or removing it from the process. The person(s) that are placed in a position to oversee things must be allowed to make changes where they deem necessary. Nothing can be streamlined or make more efficient if changes are not allowed, whether the initial changes work or not. We cannot allow ourselves to be content with “we have always done it this

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