Four days without a post! Blogging is hard.
Probably the biggest news story of the day today is the Washington Post's investigation of our massively expanded intelligence community. I've only had the chance to peek at it, along with its excellently-designed infographics laying out many of the incredible statistics about all the different organizations (three Pentagons' worth of floor space!), but a thought did occur to me.
It's a clear truth that when the intelligence community is doing its job well, nothing happens and noone notices. When it's not, there is fire, death, and calls for the reform - and often the expansion - of the community itself. But under what circumstances do we call for the devolution of the beast we've spawned? It seems to me that whatever party advocates for actually reducing the size of this thing (rather than just an overhaul of command-and-coordination which is helpful but perhaps not as relevant given the community's hugeness) is going to beat savagely by the other party because we do not have the capacity in this country for much in the way of civil political dialogue.
Just sayin'.
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