Need more spies, need more spies!

“There’s lots of work for everybody.” – Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) on why DOD needs agents who would focus on intelligence that is “unique to the Department of Defense or otherwise unmet; and provide unique capabilities to the intelligence community….”

http://breakingdefense.com/2013/05/21/hasc-intel-panel-puts-gentle-kibosh-on-dod-spy-service/?utm_source=Breaking+Defense&utm_campaign=15146d34e7-

(Defense Clandestine Service … Oh.)

And you have to appreciate this bit of bureaucraticspeak on the difference between CIA and DIA: “The primary difference lies in each organization’s customer base.”

http://www.smartwar.org/2013/03/the-dias-new-defense-clandestine-service/

“Customer base.” Back when I was in MI (all of almost three years), “customer base” didn’t exist. Stuff came in. We looked at it, “Hmmm”d a lot, and sent out maybes and perhapses and other guesses, “based on the Russians’ present strength and previous courses of action …” to the brigade commander, who decided which of our guesses he agreed with. With OPORD produced and disseminated to battalions, map war began, and we stymied the commies’ push into various parts of Germany and once foiled an attack from North Fort Hood to Main Post. The commies must have been after the commissary and main PX.