President Hamid Karzai held a meeting of the country's National Security Council on Wednesday to discuss the matter. The announcement came after President Barack Obama and top US military officers expressed growing concern over the so-called "green-on-blue" attacks in which uniformed Afghans turn their weapons against their NATO allies.Ī total of 10 soldiers, mostly Americans, have lost their lives at the hands of their Afghan colleagues in the past two weeks, and the attacks have caused almost one in four coalition deaths in the war so far this month. (2) Why is the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency worrying about Russia hacking the DNC?īusiness Insider has published more detailed profiles of each of these intelligence agencies … it’s worth browsing.Afghan officials on Wednesday blamed "infiltration by foreign spy agencies" into the ranks of its security forces for a rise in attacks by Afghan soldiers on US-led NATO forces. (2) Man, it’s gotta be tough getting 17 civilian and military agencies to agree on anything. (1) I’m sure that each agency has some plausible reason for being … but, 17, really? National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency provides advanced mapping for military forces. National Reconnaissance Office is responsible for design, building, launch, and maintenance of America’s spy satellites. Treasury’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis collects terrorism and financial intelligence.ĭrug Enforcement Administration hunts down illegal drugs. Marine Corps Intelligence Activity monitors the Corp’s battlefields and gives tactical and operational intelligence to battlefield commanders.Ĭoast Guard Intelligence provides information on maritime security and homeland defense.ĭepartment of Energy, Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence gathers information on foreign nuclear weapons. Office of Naval Intelligence provides information on the world’s oceans to sailors everywhere. State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research provides diplomats the necessary tools for effective foreign policy.ĭefense Intelligence Agency works to understand what foreign militaries will do before they do it.Īir Force Intelligence provides reconnaissance for US ground troops, most recently, using aerial drones.Īrmy Intelligence and Security Command is the major unifying command of army intelligence to troops on the battlefield. Today, its scope extends far beyond code-breaking.įBI’s National Security Branch oversees counterterrorism and intelligence gathering. National Security Agency was established in 1952 with a mission primarily dedicated to code breaking, after the Allies’ success in cracking German and Japanese codes during World War II. Office of the Director of National Intelligence is where all the intelligence should come together for delivery to the president.ĭepartment of Homeland Security – Office of Intelligence and Analysis looks for information on any potential threats to the US - collecting and analyzing information, and sharing intelligence with local and federal law enforcement through the use of “fusion centers.”Ĭentral Intelligence Agency spies on foreign governments and organizes covert ops. Analysts who make sense of documents and conversations obtained by foreign and domestic spying share their judgment by publishing 50,000 intelligence reports each year – a volume so large that many are routinely ignored.īack on point, here’s a list of the 17 agencies that make up the U.S.cities, track the flow of money to and from terrorist networks. For example, 51 federal organizations and military commands, operating in 15 U.S. Many security and intelligence agencies do the same work, creating redundancy and waste.Capitol buildings – about 17 million square feet of space. Together they occupy the equivalent of almost three Pentagons or 22 U.S. In Washington and the surrounding area, 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since September 2001.An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances.Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States.intelligence “community” is officially the composite of 17 overt organizations (more on them later) … but, according to a Washington Post investigation, they’re just the tip of the iceberg. I’ve been amused at the way the phrase slides off the tongues of the news readers: “All 17 intelligence agencies…” Am I the only one wondering why there are 17 spy agencies?
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