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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
How is it an issue for the CIA, the CIA has no domestic police authority. They can gather intelligence and investigate internationally, they can submit intelligence that might have a domestic effect to a organization like the FBI or SS.
Why would the NSA care about physical evidence.
NGIA is imagery and mapping intelligence, they wouldn't care about aircraft parts.
You could argue about Defense Intelligence, but they would more then likely be subborned to the FBI and CIA in this case since terrorism falls into those two organizations.
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It is an issue for the CIA. If a National Intelligence Estimate or a Presidential Briefing is built on the evidence and analysis collected by the FBI, and is not vetted through other USIC agencies as required by the ODNI in their intelligence sharing strategy (2009), as well as under the mandate of the 2004 IRTPA and the subsequent ICD 501, then the intelligence is incomplete and not trustworthy. Physical evidence is collected, processed and analyzed by various agencies within the USIC, so yes- the CIA, NSA, NGIA, DIA and other agencies have a stake in the collection of evidence to analyze intelligence and produce intelligence products.
Your argument is starting to sound like the IC itself before 9/11 - agencies not sharing information because they think it doesn't pertain to other agencies. The 9/11 Commission Report identified this attitude as one of the primary causes for 9/11 - stove-piping information from each other and only sharing on a "need to know" basis, not a "responsibility to provide" model as the ODNI now employs.
My point on this topic is that the FBI is not some 'lone wolf' assigned to terrorism and terrorist activities. It's every agencies problem now, especially after 9/11.
Also, this photo confuses the f### out of me . . . What the heck was going on here at the Pentagon crash site?
