Originally Posted by
FliesWay2Much
An individual in those senior jobs in the Army intelligence world is primarily a staff director....
...He certainly has the mindset to be able to question intelligence & threat-based decisions the TSA has made (if intelligence has been factored into ANY decision in the entire DHS?) and stop wasting resources on threats which don't exist. That's a good thing.
...He doesn't think like them and arrives at decisions from a completely different thought process. He will either become very frustrated or simply cut out of the inner circle.
Much better said than my attempt. The TSA lacks both intelligence (information gathering) and intelligence (well thought out decision making). He will not tolerate either of those one hopes.
Originally Posted by
AngryMiller
It might be nice to leave the intelligence gathering/processing/assessment to the professionals at CIA/NSA/FBI and let DHS/TSA keep WEI off of aircraft. Pretending to be an intelligence agency might result in botched investigations due to lack of experience and overall incompetence.
This is a valid concern, however, I can imagine that anyone who rose to this position within the military did so by understanding both the gathering of intelligence and the reaction to it. The military is a group that reacts to intelligence far faster and far more accurately overall than the TSA. I hope that that knowledge will see a change in the TSA towards reacting to intelligence from real intelligence sources, and away from trying to gather their own.
Originally Posted by
IslandBased
With a military and intelligence background, he might require a more professional attitude at the TSO level.
Things I would be praying for if I wasn't such a heathen...My other hope is that he will hold not only front liners, but the 'command structure' within the TSA responsible for failures.
Originally Posted by
FliesWay2Much
He's run the Defense HUMINT Service (DHS). He will laugh at the SPOTNik program.
We all do already...Lets just hope that he flies commercially enough to reach down and smack these people into line.
Originally Posted by
LostSoul
Only connection I can think of is that there seems to be a pretty strong inverse relationship between belief that SPOT will prevent terrorism and overall intelligence.
I'm not sure which usage of intelligence is more appropriate here...