The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (DHS CISA) gave a briefing on their efforts to curtail foreign election interference on Monday, October 7, 2024. Approximately 50 Journalists, including myself, attended and received a 20-minute brief and then were given about an hour to ask questions. Two handouts were shared after the briefing – the current IC assessment of foreign interference and also the roles and the missions of the U.S. Government in Election Security.
Having spent almost 40 years in the national security arena, I learned about the “Tyranny of the Narrative.” In earlier days, there were well-meaning, dedicated professionals, often with a moral starting point of a Judeo-Christian background or other faiths that knew the difference between right and wrong and were sworn to the Constitution.
But even in these earlier days, the “Tyranny of the Narrative” often prevailed. When a topic came up in a meeting (most of these meetings had multiple topics to address), unless the topic was the latest, screaming, on-fire, hard problem set – all other topics were addressed and often put in the parking lot with the “Established Narrative” – that’s the way it was, no need to discuss anything further.
Kennedy’s Director of the CIA, John McCone, was faced with an internal, near mutiny of the “subject matter experts” during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 who tenaciously fought any thought that Soviet Missiles were in Cuba. McCone overrode them, ordered reconnaissance flights and their “Tyranny of the Narrative” was obliterated. The “experts” were dead wrong. The October 7, 2024, ODNI Press Briefing showed that the “Tyranny of the Narrative” is alive and well – along with an $80 Billion Dollar a year, Deep State IC, filled with many of unknown character who solely seek to perpetuate the gravy train. […]
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