Intelligence: Clickbait, CIs, SOCOM and Consequences
13th July 2022
After 2003 in Iraq, American military advisors, and reservists who were cops and detectives in civilian life, brought some practical experience on how to make CI concepts work in a warzone. The role of U.S. police, on reserve duty, is worth several book length treatments. Some day. But these probably won’t be written any time soon, because of security considerations. The bottom line is that police rely heavily on “confidential informants” (CIs), and most large departments have budgets for paying them and procedures for handling them. The FBI also has a lot of practical experience with CIs, and they sometimes contributed practical experience to the troops, and the CIA.