The average American may have an excuse for not being familiar with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), President Obama's unfamiliarity with NGA is troubling. The NGA is a key source (if not the only source) for information on many of the issues he is being briefed about on a daily basis. The North Korean nuclear test and missile launches, developments in Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan, even the Somali pirates, the intelligence community's analysis is likely based on raw intelligence produced by NGA. If the President has not yet had NGA analysts into the Oval for a briefing, it raises questions about how diligent he is about reading his intel. Perhaps instead of taking in a Broadway Show, he should have stayed home and spent Saturday night spending some more time with the PDB.
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The average American may have an excuse for not being familiar with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), President Obama's unfamiliarity with NGA is troubling. The NGA is a key source (if not the only source) for information on many of the issues he is being briefed about on a daily…
Jamie Fly · May 31, 2009
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