CIA Reorganization: "The Entire Universe"

The director of the CIA announced this week a major overhaul of the agency’s organizational structure ending the traditional separation between spies and analysts, while also creating a new division to handle cyberwarfare.

  The Intercept

So, if that were retroactive, they’d actually be able to truthfully refer to Ed Snowden as a spy. Damn. Just weren’t quick enough with this one. But next guy who considers leaking anything. Beware.

Under the new model, spies and analysts will be integrated and assigned to 10 new mission centers, which, according to Brennan, “will bring the full range of operational, analytic, support, technical, and digital personnel and capabilities to bear on the nation’s most pressing security issues and interests.”

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The reorganization will allow the CIA to “cover the entire universe, regionally and functionally,” Brennan told reporters in a briefing earlier in the week.

I’ve told you before, the CIA is everywhere. “The entire universe.” Maybe now we’ll see some alien action.

Further details on the mandates of the mission centers were hard to come by.

Haha. No doubt.

In its effort to hunt down suspected terrorists, the Counterterrorism Center has fused thousands of analysts and spies under one umbrella of operations, a move Brennan has supported.

The fusing of analysts and operatives reflects the influence and power of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center. Formerly a small, somewhat maligned office, the Counterterrorism Center emerged in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks as the CIA’s premiere hunter-killer wing, directing lethal operations around the globe, including the agency’s highly controversial and secretive drone program.

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Brennan also announced the creation of a new division called the Directorate of Digital Innovation, which will handle the CIA’s cyber-operations, taking on the responsibilities of two existing directorates — the Open Source Center and the Information Operations Center.

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The new digital directorate will have significantly more leeway than both its predecessors, according Brennan. “What we need to do as an agency is make sure we’re able to understand all of the aspects of that digital environment,” he told reporters.

In response to global changes being made to secure internet communication in light of the Snowden leaks. Understand…and control.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.