{"id":37,"date":"2005-01-23T10:46:10","date_gmt":"2005-01-23T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/01\/23\/pentagon-creates-secret-spy-service-on"},"modified":"2005-01-23T10:46:10","modified_gmt":"2005-01-23T14:46:10","slug":"pentagon-creates-secret-spy-service-on-the-sly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/01\/23\/pentagon-creates-secret-spy-service-on-the-sly\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Creates Secret Spy Service on the Sly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4515'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/bbbond.jpg\" width=\"213\" height=\"320\" align=\"left\"><em>The<br \/>\n          <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/washington\/articles\/2005\/01\/23\/pentagon_adds_secret_intelligence_unit\/\">Washington<br \/>\n          Post<\/a> today reports that the Defense Department on instructions<br \/>\n        from the Defense Secretary, appearantly unhappy with the intelligence<br \/>\n        they were getting from the CIA, has established a separate intelligence<br \/>\n        agency. Tired of all those pessimistic worryworts over in Langley whining<br \/>\n        about quagmires and exit strategies, the administration hopes  that<br \/>\n        the new agency can come up with a less pessimistic, more uplifting product<br \/>\n        for<br \/>\n        the President&#8217;s<br \/>\n        morning intellignece breifings&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n        WASHINGTON &#8212; The Pentagon, expanding into the CIA&#8217;s historic bailiwick,<br \/>\n        has created an espionage arm and is reinterpreting US law to give Defense<br \/>\n        Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld broad authority over clandestine operations<br \/>\n        abroad, according to interviews with participants and documents obtained<br \/>\n        by the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>        The previously undisclosed organization, called the Strategic<br \/>\n        Support Branch, arose from Rumsfeld&#8217;s written order to end his &#8221;near<br \/>\n        total dependence on CIA&quot; for what is known as human intelligence. <\/p>\n<p><em>And not a moment too soon. From the Dowbrigade&#8217;s point of view,<br \/>\n          there has been an alarming lack of human intellignece in Washington<br \/>\n          for the<br \/>\n        past<br \/>\n        few<br \/>\n        years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>from the<br \/>\n          Washington Post via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/washington\/articles\/2005\/01\/23\/pentagon_adds_secret_intelligence_unit\/\">Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post today reports that the Defense Department on instructions from the Defense Secretary, appearantly unhappy with the intelligence they were getting from the CIA, has established a separate intelligence agency. Tired of all those pessimistic worryworts over in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/01\/23\/pentagon-creates-secret-spy-service-on-the-sly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serious-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}