Well, PU has analyzed the analysis of the analysis, of the basic analysis and now they are going to do an evaluation of the analysis… sigh…

And PU has come out with specific recommendations, none of which addresses the root cause problem.

What is the root problem you may ask? It is the REAL analyst working on the floor…

They are so paranoid they are NOT going to make a call on anything other than a cut and dried, dead nuts hit. Anything else they are going to bump it up.

Why? Look at what is happening to the CIA folks that are now being investigated by Holder, and the pressure to “toe the line”, don’t profile, don’t boot anything up you can’t verify six ways to Sunday; and if you screw up? Well, you’re gone- at the minimum demoted, at worst fired and liable for charges…

Is there a resolution? Yes, but it won’t happen in this administration, because there is a control mentality and they are NOT willing to let the workers do the work without interference.

The number of agencies involved in and of itself mitigates adequate sharing of data, just by the nature of the time lines involved in the intelligence community…

Another issue is the sheer volume of information that each analyst is ‘responsible’ for… it’s not 10 or 20 or 100 pieces of information, it’s thousands…

Day after day after day…

So they are going to add more scrutiny, more layers of bureaucracy, and reduce effectiveness even further…

How would I fix it? One word- PROFILE! These profiles are built for a reason, but PCism… sigh…

But no… and IF, and it’s a BIG IF, you do get intel on somebody, the reality of getting that person on a watch list or no fly list in time to actually have an impact is less than 50-50…

And then you have to assume everything goes perfectly, that the name is correctly is correctly spelled, AND the person actually uses the same full name as is on the list and on and on…

I say just let us carry and we’ll take care of the problem…