DNI Tulsi Gabbard just announced a major reduction in the size of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). It’s a good start. The ODNI was never supposed to become the bloated, inefficient bureaucracy into which it evolved. Sizeable as the reduction is, though, that’s all it is – a good start. There is much more work to be done, and it is not all just about cutting the number of personnel.
As DNI Gabbard herself has noted repeatedly, the reform of the Intelligence Community (IC) is not just about numbers and size. It is about focus, the composition of the workforce, and restoring efficiency and effectiveness. What we have now is not just too big. It is incapable of getting the job done.
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“It is incapable of getting the job done.”
Isn’t that indicative of most government?
The entire federal bureaucracy is Exhibit A for that old saw, “The Department of Redundancy Department”.
The only time the left hand should not know what the right hand is doing is when the right hand is doing something good. As it is, with this behemoth of gov’t, any good is strictly by accident and likely to be cancelled-out by design. This way everyone gets tons of money and no one is accountable for anything.
I say it’s going to be equally as difficult. The deep state vermin haven’t actually started fighting back yet. Right now they’re on their heels but we haven’t yet identified the true power structure behind this shit. Expect some false flags soon. Dangerous times ahead. Here’s Tulsi’s latest.
https://x.com/i/status/1959322151213044146
If you know how zero-base budgeting works, imagine zero-base staffing. Get a DOGE team sequestered somewhere until they produce:
— a definition of what the ‘intelligence function’ is
— what its organizational pieces are
— what those pieces are to produce
— job descriptions for IC personnel
— staffing levels needed
— criteria for employee performance evaluation
— criteria for departmental performance evaluation
and very importantly, how and where to build in auditable record keeping in a paper trail.
Then take a long hard look at today’s IC, determine who’s doing what, and see if they fit the new model.
Fire everybody who doesn’t fit.
Yeah, that’s pretty close to starting over from scratch. Not quite, but almost.
“If you know how zero-base budgeting works”
I think there’s two of us that occasionally bring up the evils of base line budgeting. Myself and Uncle Albert. Maybe a third. But bottom line eliminating it is key in fixing our fucked up government. Hey DJT, wtf? Gotta be done.
What part of the cancer tumor do you keep and try to reform?