Intelligence Community Reform Needed

This article was provided to the New York Analysis of Policy and Government by Brad Johnson, President of Americans for Intelligence Reform. Brad Johnson retired as a Senior Operations Officer and Chief of Station with the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Operations. He has served domestically and abroad with numerous assignments often during periods of armed conflict.

During the eight years of the Obama/ Biden administration, there was a huge push for political correctness. One of the main objectives of political correctness is to stifle debate so that no other opinion can ever be heard, which is always the methodology of the left and communist or socialist regimes worldwide including the left here in the United States. We are all familiar with the socialist regimes that limit and control the internet and all media including television news and newspapers. This perspective is the position of today’s Democratic party which we can see almost daily.

It is a common tactic for the left to call for a national debate on any issue but what they really mean is we should all listen to their monolog with no opportunity for other opinions or perspectives. We all saw how the IRS targeted conservative non-profit organizations to keep them quiet. This is illegal and went completely unpunished, once again we have to ask ourselves where is the FBI? Similar leftist ideology is apparent in some of the main social media outlets, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have been subpoenaed by Congress to explain their bias when they are allowed to operate under laws which require them to be neutral. The GOP has even filed a complaint against Twitter with the FEC for election interference.

Most people are probably aware that the FBI is part of the intelligence community and not just a bit player, they have a major role in the intelligence community and about a third of the FBI is dedicated to their counterintelligence department (CI) which conducts a wide variety of intelligence related activities. The remaining approximately two-thirds makes up the criminal division. Recently, a former FBI agent named Michael German surfaced again pushing a theme he has championed for years claiming there are widespread close ties between local law enforcement and right-wing violent groups and the dangers he claims this represents.

Mr. German himself is long associated with several far-left leaning political organizations and is something of a poster boy for how the political left uses propaganda to manipulate US government agencies and their information. The irony of a former FBI agent pushing the dangers of right wing groups at the exact moment left wing extremist groups such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) and ANTIFA are rioting daily in a number of major US cities, burning down many buildings, destroying businesses and the lives of many not to mention murdering or wounding law enforcement officers as well as other innocent bystanders is stunning. Mr. German makes himself look like a complete left-wing hack and in fact represents a certain level of threat to the public himself by trying to confuse people as to the actual source of danger.

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The dangers of the right wing in the US have long heralded by many other besides Mr. German to certainly include the mainstream media and anyone associated with the Democratic party. There is one huge underlying problem that everyone needs to know about and that is that they are lying through their teeth and are perfectly aware of the fact. A recently completed 218 page two-year study written by Christopher Hull PhD. details and closely documents the malfeasance, lies and manipulations that are used to make these largely unfounded claims of dangers from the right.

While Mr. German pushes the dangers posed by local law enforcement being associated with right wing groups using information that is proven to be false, we see for ourselves on national television a very cozy relationship between ANTIFA and BLM with local law enforcement and politicians in Portland Oregon for example and other democratic controlled cities. We have all watched as innocent passerby’s or bystanders are roughed up by masked men from ANTIFA, while the local police calmly watch and do nothing.

The Report Concludes Tomorrow

Photo: FBI Headquarters (FBI Photo)

Quick Analysis

Part 2: America’s Strategic Posture

As we noted in Part 1, the dramatically deteriorating national security picture for the United States and its allies prompted a review of “America’s Strategic Posture.” We present Part 2, reviewing key strategic points. STRATEGY To achieve the most effective strategy for stability in light of the 2027-2035 threat environment, the Commission identifies three necessary changes: ` The United States must develop and effectively implement a truly integrated, whole-of-government strategy to address the 2027-2035 threat environment. The objectives of U.S. strategy must include effective deterrence and defeat of simultaneous Russian and Chinese aggression in Europe and Asia using conventional forces. If the United States and its Allies and partners do not field sufficient conventional forces to achieve this objective, U.S. strategy would need to be altered to increase reliance on nuclear weapons to deter or counter opportunistic or collaborative aggression in the other theater. ` The size and composition of the nuclear force must account for the possibility of combined aggression from Russia and China. U.S. strategy should no longer treat China’s nuclear forces as a “lesser included” threat. The United States needs a nuclear posture capable of simultaneously deterring both countries. The Commission recommends the United States maintain a nuclear strategy consistent with the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC), based on six fundamental tenets—assured second strike, flexible response, tailored deterrence, extended deterrence and assurance, calculated ambiguity in declaratory policy, hedge against risk—and apply these tenets to address the 2027-2035 threat. STRATEGIC POSTURE In the context of a strategic posture deploying both conventional and nuclear capability, the Commission believes the traditional role of nuclear weapons in U.S. defense strategy remains valid and of continuing importance: deterrence of adversaries; assurance of Allies; achieving U.S. objectives should deterrence fail; and hedging against adverse events. The Commission recommends fully and urgently executing the U.S. nuclear modernization Program of Record (POR), which includes replacement of all U.S. nuclear delivery systems, modernization of their warheads, comprehensive modernization of U.S. nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3), and recapitalizing the nuclear enterprise infrastructure at the DOD and DOE/NNSA. The current modernization program should be supplemented to ensure U.S. nuclear strategy remains effective in a two-nuclear-peer environment. Comprehensive risk-mitigating actions across U.S. nuclear forces must be executed to ensure that delays in modernization programs or early age-out of currently deployed systems do not result in militarily significant shortfalls in deployed nuclear capability. The U.S. strategic nuclear force posture should be modified to: ` Address the larger number of targets due to the growing Chinese nuclear threat. ` Address the possibility that China will field large-scale, counterforce-capable missile forces that pose a threat to U.S. strategic nuclear forces on par with the threat Russia poses to those forces today. ` Assure the United States continues to avoid reliance on executing Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) launch under attack to retain an effective deterrent. ` Account for advances in Russian and Chinese integrated air and missile defenses (IAMD). The U.S. theater nuclear force posture should be urgently modified to: ` Provide the President a range of militarily effective nuclear response options to deter or counter Russian or Chinese limited nuclear use in theater. ` Address the need for U.S. theater nuclear forces deployed or based in the Asia-Pacific theater. ` Compensate for any shortfall in U.S. and allied non-nuclear capabilities in a sequential or simultaneous two-theater conflict against Russia and China. ` Address advances in Russian and Chinese IAMD. NUCLEAR SECURITY ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION The Commission recommends the DOD and DOE/NNSA strategic infrastructure be expanded to have sufficient capacity to: ` Meet the capability and schedule requirements of the current nuclear modernization POR and the requirements of the force posture modifications recommended by the Commission in time to address the two-peer threat. ` Provide an effective hedge against four forms of risk: technical failure of a warhead or delivery system, programmatic delays, operational loss of delivery systems, and further deterioration of the geopolitical environment. ` Flex to respond to emerging requirements in a timely fashion. To support the proposed strategy, the Commission recommends Congress fund an overhaul and expansion of the capacity of the U.S. nuclear weapons defense industrial base and the DOE/NNSA nuclear security enterprise, including weapons science, design, and production infrastructure. Specifically: ` Congress should fund the full range of NNSA’s recapitalization efforts, such as pit production and all operations related to critical materials. ` Congress should forge and sustain bipartisan consensus and year-to-year funding stability to enable the defense industry to respond to innovative DOD contracting approaches and invest with more certainty. ` Congress should enact annual DOD and DOE authorization and appropriation bills before the beginning of each fiscal year. ` Congress should place the purview of all “050” programs (President’s Budget line item for “national security”) that are in NNSA under Defense appropriations subcommittees (House Appropriations Committee-Defense (HAC-D), Senate Appropriations Committee Defense (SAC-D). ` Cabinet Secretaries, working with states and union leaders, should establish and increase the technical education and vocational training programs required to create the nation’s necessary skilled-trades workforce for the nuclear enterprise. The Commission recommends a number of specific actions to expand the capacity and effectiveness of the nation’s infrastructure and supply chain for its strategic capabilities. The Report concludes tomorrow Photo: Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, speaks with members from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency as well as industry leaders at the NORAD and USNORTHCOM headquarters on Peterson Space Force Base, Colo.(DoD)