When you are cool enough you can "work" for an agency and do nothing but maintain your clearance.
Not that it is worth anything these days, 90% of briefings you get access to are recycled from open source data anyways which is why it is wrong more and more often.
This has in fact made Wag The Dog a reality.
The news sez "insurrection" so the Intel agencies act accordingly.
The news sez "peaceful protest" and the Intel agencies act accordingly.
If you want to know how we lost our agency intelligence and how they were weaponized against us, look no further than the OSINT explosion and the slant in the media.
Similar to what has happened in academia. If you go along with or even buttress the prevailing group think, you get a pat on the head and no one questions it. 'Promote immediately!'
If you actually do the work, collect data, and do reasoned analysis, invariably your conclusions will align with reality and not what the food chain wants to hear. You'd better be prepared to defend your assertions and yourself. An uphill battle, that all to often ends with being shown the door.
The democrats instinctively encourage it and most republicans are too dense, or happily paid off to recognize, care about or question it. On the off chance they do, they are quickly brought to heel and the 'bad influence' they got a reality check from is dealt with.
The alphabets and think tanks in washington compete for attention and funding from largely corrupt politicians. Makes it easy for politicians to get a fantasy they like and ignore intelligence they don't.
It's never one intelligence source telling the truth and one lying. It's always a choice between two or more fantasies. Complete with budgets, new programs and policy choices they can be used to justify.
Some think tanks offer up total packages, a turn key solution for any dipshit who is lost in an office they don't belong in. "This is what you do, this is what you say, this is how you justify it. Here, we've even written some speeches and tweets you can start using now."
When you are cool enough you can "work" for an agency and do nothing but maintain your clearance.
Not that it is worth anything these days, 90% of briefings you get access to are recycled from open source data anyways which is why it is wrong more and more often.
This has in fact made Wag The Dog a reality.
The news sez "insurrection" so the Intel agencies act accordingly.
The news sez "peaceful protest" and the Intel agencies act accordingly.
If you want to know how we lost our agency intelligence and how they were weaponized against us, look no further than the OSINT explosion and the slant in the media.
Similar to what has happened in academia. If you go along with or even buttress the prevailing group think, you get a pat on the head and no one questions it. 'Promote immediately!'
If you actually do the work, collect data, and do reasoned analysis, invariably your conclusions will align with reality and not what the food chain wants to hear. You'd better be prepared to defend your assertions and yourself. An uphill battle, that all to often ends with being shown the door.
The democrats instinctively encourage it and most republicans are too dense, or happily paid off to recognize, care about or question it. On the off chance they do, they are quickly brought to heel and the 'bad influence' they got a reality check from is dealt with.
The alphabets and think tanks in washington compete for attention and funding from largely corrupt politicians. Makes it easy for politicians to get a fantasy they like and ignore intelligence they don't.
It's never one intelligence source telling the truth and one lying. It's always a choice between two or more fantasies. Complete with budgets, new programs and policy choices they can be used to justify.
Some think tanks offer up total packages, a turn key solution for any dipshit who is lost in an office they don't belong in. "This is what you do, this is what you say, this is how you justify it. Here, we've even written some speeches and tweets you can start using now."