The Washington Post did an in-depth report on the ever growing top-secret world of the US government. The article is definitely worth a read, or if you're hurried a quick scan; but it should not be ignored. It does an excellent job in expressing how unwieldy and ineffective America's secret intelligence agency has become by focusing on the various problems plaguing the top-secret world. It covers the turf battles amongst the agencies, the problems of an overdose of information, the budget problems and the greatest problem of all: Congress keeps pumping money into it.
A particular quotation from Major-General John Custer caught my eye. It sums up the situation well, "...after 4 1/2 years, this organization had never produced one shred of information that helped me prosecute three wars!"
And a most accurate assement by the Washington Post from early in the article furthers the case, "...lack of focus, not lack of resources, was at the heart of the Fort Hood shooting that left 13 dead, as well as the Christmas Day bomb attempt thwarted not by the thousands of analysts employed to find lone terrorists but by an alert airline passenger who saw smoke coming from his seatmate."
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