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CaptainCrunch · 09-13-2011, 04:42 PM

I'm going directly off of their mandate which covers Aeronautical intelligence gathering, Maritime Navigation and mission planning for the DND. I would think that FAA investigators would be the experts in terms of crash effects and patterns. We're not really arguing on the last sentence where the FBI has jurisdiction and any relevant data would come to them for analysis. But I fail to see how signal intelligence pertains to crash residue on the ground. You could argue that if there was communication between the planes for example and an Al Queda source that they would be involved in that, but there wasn't. There was however communication before 9/11 as a coordination point, and immediately after when Al Queda was sending congratulations to each other through the internet and Satellite tecnology.

The DIA is more focused on threat analysis, so any data that comes out that indicates future possible threats would be their mandate which would be shared by the FBI, but I don't see how they would be involved in investigating a crash site.

09-13-2011, 04:42 PM	#783
CaptainCrunch Norm! Join Date: Jun 2002 Exp:	I'm going directly off of their mandate which covers Aeronautical intelligence gathering, Maritime Navigation and mission planning for the DND. I would think that FAA investigators would be the experts in terms of crash effects and patterns. We're not really arguing on the last sentence where the FBI has jurisdiction and any relevant data would come to them for analysis. But I fail to see how signal intelligence pertains to crash residue on the ground. You could argue that if there was communication between the planes for example and an Al Queda source that they would be involved in that, but there wasn't. There was however communication before 9/11 as a coordination point, and immediately after when Al Queda was sending congratulations to each other through the internet and Satellite tecnology. The DIA is more focused on threat analysis, so any data that comes out that indicates future possible threats would be their mandate which would be shared by the FBI, but I don't see how they would be involved in investigating a crash site. __________________ My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!