#intelligence-community

#intelligence-community

"Protecting our nation's most sensitive information from those who seek to exploit it, while making sure our intelligence professionals have the tools and access they need to do their jobs, is not optional; it is essential to our national security."

Not long ago, I was talking to an old friend and China analyst about the need for Intelligence Community (IC) analysts to spend significantly more time looking at themselves and their own agencies, processes, procedures, habits, biases, etc.-in other words, to be more introspective. I thought this an uncontroversial assertion as it has beenwell established in management literature that healthy organizations have robust introspective proclivities.

The United States is facing a quiet and rapidly growing threat across the digital landscape, an unseen mathematical space of binary code and shadowy actors.

The provision establishes tax deductions and tax-free reimbursements for eligible moving expenses for IC employees and certain political appointees, a measure aimed at preventing them from being unfairly taxed on money they spend to cover mandatory moving costs.

We also need to take a deep breath here ourselves... we have to be cautious about being played by people inside the Intel community who want to get their message out.