Parasites at Pentagon want to use taxpayers' funds to run businesses and 'compete' in the private sector

“Expansion of this authority is necessary to permit DOD to conduct revenue-generating commercial activities to protect such operations and would provide an important safeguard for U.S. military forces conducting hazardous operations abroad,” the request for legislation says. It was first reported by my colleagues at Inside Defense.

Parasites at Pentagon want to use taxpayers' funds to run businesses and 'compete' in the private sector 102929272

But a former senior intelligence official with years of experience handling a wide array of covert operations is skeptical that DIA, which has never run such operations before, will be able to pull this off.
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The CIA has long handled business operations, not to mention all intelligence activities overseas. “Under the DCID5/1 [directive which governs "Coordination of US Clandestine Foreign Intelligence Activities Abroad"] all intel and CI [counter-intelligence] issues/activities overseas are under the purview and authority of the CIA. And as long as that regulation is observed, then having military collectors is fine,” the former intelligence official said. Of course, that doesn’t mean Congress should give them the authority without a good scrubbing of the whys and wherefores.

http://defense.aol.com/2012/04/20/pentagon-pushes-for-greater-spy-powers-wants-to-run-businesses/

Parasites at Pentagon want to use taxpayers' funds to run businesses and 'compete' in the private sector

Parasites at Pentagon want to use taxpayers' funds to run businesses and 'compete' in the private sector

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