Trump's nominee for Director of National Intelligence has a twisted history of dissent from the elite D.C. foreign policy consensus and neocon-style “war on terror” rhetoric.
I think there’s a point where that stuff is a distinction without a difference, whether something is a sub-organization of an existing thing or it’s own separate thing. The fact that there are 18 is pointless by itself. Just have one! But it is what it is, you can’t just reorganize and consolidate and move things around constantly because then no work can get done.
“head up these 18 intelligence agencies” is such a certificed American Empire™ beyond-parody phrase.
18 that they can’t deny exist. It’s probably twice that.
I think there’s a point where that stuff is a distinction without a difference, whether something is a sub-organization of an existing thing or it’s own separate thing. The fact that there are 18 is pointless by itself. Just have one! But it is what it is, you can’t just reorganize and consolidate and move things around constantly because then no work can get done.