The AGENCY has a Watchdog, but the AGENCY doesn’t like what the Watchdog says, so what does the AGENCY do? They investigate the very Watchdog that was appointed to investigate them. CIA checking into its own. CIA Director Michael Hayden is investigating CIA Inspector General John Helgerson. The internal probe was launched in October 2007.
Here is an important document that details what role the DIA has. Department of Defense Directive 5105.21 (March 18, 2008)
The United State’s Department of Defense (DoD) has its very own Intelligence Agency. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is not a common household name, and rarely receives much press. Their function (from wikipedia):
DIA’s mission is to provide timely and objective military intelligence to warfighters, policymakers, and force planners. It is considered to be a member of the Intelligence Community. The director of DIA is the main adviser to the United States Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on matters related to military intelligence.
The Central Intelligence Agency is supposedly a “civilian” intelligence agency. Why then is the director General Michael V. Hayden, USAF?
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was created in 1947 with the signing of the National Security Act by President Harry S. Truman. The act also created a Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) to serve as head of the United States intelligence community; act as the principal adviser to the President for intelligence matters related to the national security; and serve as head of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 amended the National Security Act to provide for a Director of National Intelligence who would assume some of the roles formerly fulfilled by the DCI, with a separate Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
