>Brennan said the CIA reorganization will be modeled after the agency’s Counterterrorism Center, which runs the U.S. targeted killing and drone program.
I always like to remind people when this comes up - The CIA is a civilian agency. They are not military. They have no legal right to engage in anything remotely resembling military action. Their only legal behavior is to collect international intelligence, though they seem to be capable only of doing everything outside their mandate and not within it. Why they weren't disbanded after the USSR imploded into bankruptcy 2 weeks after they had delivered a report claiming that the USSR was 'not a paper tiger' and 'growing stronger every day' and that they would continue to present the largest threat to the US on the global stage for the foreseeable future I have no idea. Most amateurs could have told you the USSR was on its last legs after years of scientists and members of their military reporting not being paid for years at a time. But the CIA was absolutely certain that they were doing great. And they should know, they had devoted stupendous resources to their intelligence work there. But, nope, they didn't see it coming at all.
I always like to remind people when this comes up - The CIA is a civilian agency. They are not military. They have no legal right to engage in anything remotely resembling military action. Their only legal behavior is to collect international intelligence, though they seem to be capable only of doing everything outside their mandate and not within it. Why they weren't disbanded after the USSR imploded into bankruptcy 2 weeks after they had delivered a report claiming that the USSR was 'not a paper tiger' and 'growing stronger every day' and that they would continue to present the largest threat to the US on the global stage for the foreseeable future I have no idea. Most amateurs could have told you the USSR was on its last legs after years of scientists and members of their military reporting not being paid for years at a time. But the CIA was absolutely certain that they were doing great. And they should know, they had devoted stupendous resources to their intelligence work there. But, nope, they didn't see it coming at all.