TEARLINE
The founder of Libya’s Islamist militia Ansar al-Sharia was at the U.S. embassy during the deadly attack there — and now he’s on the lamb.
At GEOINT 2012, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Michael Flynn outlined his plan to use the Defense Clandestine Service to integrate the intelligence community. "I’m going to use this to integrate the entire agency,” Flynn said. “This is not a marginal adjustment for DIA. This is a major adjustment for national security.” The Director has already moved aggressively to resource emergent Human Intelligence Collection Requirements via the Defense Clandestine Service–Special Operations (DCS-SO) shop, located at USSOCOM Headquarters in Tampa, Fla.
Meanwhile, the Defense Intelligence Agency has begun staffing the human resources shop of an unspecified special mission unit (presumably an arm of the nascent Defense Clandestine Service), administratively controlled by an unspecified arm of the Department of Defense and operationally controlled by the Defense Intelligence Agency.
AROUND THE WORLD
Members of Operation Onward Liberty joined Armed Forces of Liberia soldiers and their families at Edward Binyah Kesselly Military Barracks to welcome home AFL soldiers from Operation Restore Hope. Approximately 200 AFL soldiers returned from the border of Côte d’Ivoire after a 90 day deployment conducting border security operations and a relief in place with other elements of the AFL.
"The recent violence at the U.S. Embassy in Tunis highlights the unfortunate fact that extremists are increasingly active in Tunisia. It’s not prime AQIM territory, but there are veteran hard-line extremists in the country with nefarious intentions."
ON THE FIGHT
A Central Intelligence Agency officer has been killed in Maaruf, on the outskirts of Kandahar.
Pentagon officials insisted this week there was no effort to accelerate training of an elite Libyan commando unit after a New York Times report suggested there was a push to speed up the program following last month’s deadly attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi. The program is part of a joint initiative by the Defense and State departments to fund training of a small force of Libyans to combat the growing threat of violent extremist organizations since the fall of the Qadhafi regime last year
ON SECRECY – OR LACK THEREOF
The Central Intelligence Agency is having a hard time keeping their own properties stateside under wraps.
Robert Caruso is a veteran of the United States Navy, and has worked for the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, Business Transformation Agency and the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
