"The Defense Intelligence Agency is a powerful if obscure organization responsible for providing intelligence to military commands, the Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Its secret weapon: It’s chiefly responsible for all of the Defense Department’s human informants. Yet it can seem overly bureaucratic and in eclipse compared to the military tactical-intelligence shops it helps man.
“Flynn’s nomination is interesting because he does not seem like someone who would choose to be a placeholder at an agency in decline,” says spywatcher Steve Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists. “The appointment may signal a revival of DIA, or at least some upheaval.”" Wired
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The "crockery" needs breaking. DIA tends to be inhabited at the top by bureaucratic politicians who should be sent to graze somewhere else.
Not a West Point graduate.
Flynn sounds like a good idea. We will have to see if he will do as good a job of backing up his analysts in NIE discussions as did Burgess. pl
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/04/michael-flynn-dia/#more-78557
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_T._Flynn
