Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dennis Blair won’t get credit — because he didn’t always play by Washington’s go-along to get-along rules — but he knew what intelligence was and how to prioritize efforts.<\/p>\n
In the Aspen conference last week, according to the Washington Post, he “offered a sobering bit of intelligence budget math. Given the swollen state of intelligence spending, and the relatively small membership of al-Qaeda and other groups, Blair said the United States is spending $20 billion a year to go after an enemy that has about 4,000 people in its ranks.”<\/p>\n
And that’s not counting all of the important issues that have been ignored since Bush\/Cheney set the priorities.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dennis Blair won’t get credit — because he didn’t always play by Washington’s go-along to get-along rules — but he knew what intelligence was and how to prioritize efforts. In the Aspen conference last … Continue reading