Intel gathering


Ex-FBI Agent: New Private Spy Network Could Lead US 'Down a Slippery Slope'

Trump is allegedly considering establishing an independent new private global spy network that would circumvent the existing US intelligence agencies and answer only to the US President and CIA director. Former FBI Special Agent Mark Rossini warned Radio Sputnik that creating such an organization means "going down a slippery slope."

Mark Rossini: The creation of such an organization is fraught with peril and dangers. We’ve seen this danger during the Iraq war. The Bush W. administration…the intelligence that the agencies were providing was not what they wanted to hear, or rather what Cheney and Rumsfeld wanted to hear; they created their own separate organization within the Pentagon to create the intelligence they wanted to have in order to justify the invasion of Iraq…

So we’re going down a slippery slope by creating such private organizations that circumvent the established agencies. Intelligence cannot be tailored to your opinion; intelligence creates your opinion, the path that you take and the action that you take. It’s like creating evidence in the court of war.