The U.S. and Global Security Review - Blog by Michael Novakhov

Trump needs to make heads roll at the CIA and FBI By Michael Walsh View author archive Get author RSS feed                           Trump needs to think big and build right to reform our infrastructure One of the thorniest questions facing the incoming Trump administration is what to do about America’s increasingly dysfunctional intelligence community, known collectively by its acronym, the IC. Made up of no fewer than 16 different agencies, the IC includes marquee services like the CIA and the National Security Agency, as well as more obscure spook fiefdoms such as Defense Intelligence Agency (serving the military) and the National Reconnaissance Office, which monitors America’s national-security concerns via satellites. In the aftermath of Sept. 11., George W. Bush hastily reorganized the IC, creating the elephantine Department of Homeland Security to abso...