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Boba Gowd says:
Boba Gowd warns of shifts in intelligence personnel assignments, prioritizing deniability in a changing foreign policy landscape, leading to potential changes in public perception.
Policy analysts
Context on the implications of deniability in intelligence operations.
Well howdy there internet people, it's Boba Gowd.
So today we're going to talk about something that's kind of occurring in the background.
It really hasn't made huge headlines yet, but I think eventually it might.
And depending on how it's framed, when it does,
it may raise eyebrows when it really doesn't need to.
Everybody knew that this little piece of news was coming.
In fact, it's long overdue.
But given the current political situation, any kind of shuffling in this community makes
people nervous right now.
So what's the news?
The Department of Defense is going to begin limiting the detailing, the temporary reassignment
of their personnel to the intelligence world.
Ever since 2001, it was really common.
And the reason it was really common was because they could get away with it.
The opposition at the time, well they didn't have embassies.
And nobody needed to maintain deniability.
We were advertising that we did this stuff, you know.
The foreign policy of the United States is shifting.
Those groups are no longer a priority.
The new priority is going to be near peers.
Near peers being countries like China or Russia.
Powerful countries.
So when that little world of people does something, they have to be able to say, oh that wasn't
us, if the people get caught.
You can't do that if it's Staff Sergeant whoever that gets caught.
There has to be a level of deniability.
And I think this is playing into this.
This is something everybody knew was coming.
But there probably is some kind of dispute, some kind of internal riff that caused it
to happen at this exact moment.
But it's not something to worry about.
It's not a weird Trump power grab or anything like that.
This realistically, this should have happened like five years ago.
And there are probably a bunch of other reasons that this is occurring.
I am curious to see how they frame it though.
Because I think it's highly unlikely that they're going to walk out and say, oh, well,
you know, we're going to be spying on other countries more, so we need to be able to say
it wasn't us, therefore we're going to use people who are more expendable by the way
we're hiring.
That seems unlikely.
But anyway, this is more of just a heads up because we don't know how this news is going
to be framed when it comes out and when it starts to get publicized.
Anyway, it's just a thought. Y'all have a good day.
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