Hit the Artery, Not the Capillary: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said there is no “turf battle” among intelligence leaders, specifically between himself and CIA director nominee Gen. Michael Hayden. (See above.) At Tuesday’s Pentagon press briefing, Rumsfeld sought to quell media rumors about a clash among intel leaders, asserting that the people who are fueling these speculations “have an instinct for the capillaries, as opposed to the more important arteries.” Rumsfeld lectured that the “single most important discussion about intelligence should be about the formula, arrangement, and structure” of intel gathering, not about the leadership bureaucracy.
The Pentagon’s new counter-drone task force will play a direct role in arming Airmen with new weapons to defend Air Force agile combat employment, or ACE, air bases in austere locations against enemy drone attacks, the director of Joint Interagency Task Force 401 said Oct. 14.
