U.S. Intelligence Alphabet-soup Additions

[sarongsong]

March 8, 2006
"...falls outside the orbit controlled by John D. Negroponte, the newly established director of national intelligence [DNI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Director_of_National_Intelligence)]...Special Operations Command [Socom] has not publicly disclosed the Military Liaison Element [MLE] mission, and answered questions about the effort only after it was described by officials in other parts of the government who oppose the program..." NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/08/international/americas/08forces.html?ei=5065&en=15f53b2da65f19b6&ex=1142398800&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print)
Whew!

[Sammy]

March 8, 2006
"...falls outside the orbit controlled by John D. Negroponte, the newly established director of national intelligence [DNI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Director_of_National_Intelligence)]...Special Operations Command [Socom] has not publicly disclosed the Military Liaison Element [MLE] mission, and answered questions about the effort only after it was described by officials in other parts of the government who oppose the program..." NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/08/international/americas/08forces.html?ei=5065&en=15f53b2da65f19b6&ex=1142398800&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print)
Whew!

"Whew" indeed! This quote from the link is an understatement


Mr. Brennan, now president of the Analysis Corporation, an intelligence contractor in Virginia, said that if Socom operations were closely coordinated with host countries and American ambassadors, "U.S. interests could be very well served."

But, he added, "if the planned Socom presence in U.S. embassies abroad is an effort to pave the way for unilateral U.S. military operations or to enable defense elements to engage in covert action activities separate from the C.I.A., U.S. problems abroad will be certain to increase significantly."


A wildly mixed metaphore is the best summation: "Too many cooks in the kitchen playing cowboy."

[Taks]

when i was at my first company as an engineer, we actually had to put together a list of common acronyms at the start of each program. this list varied from program to program based on which agencies and people we were working with as well as which type of information or program we were dealing with. it was difficult to deal with. fortunately, i was in IR&D (internal research and development) so i rarely had to deal with the really big programs and their acronym heck.

taks

[Enzp]

You go to the well too often, you get burned.

QED

[sarongsong]

Large recruitment ad in today's newspaper for NCS:
National Clandestine Service (http://www.cia.gov/cia/public_affairs/press_release/2005/pr10132005.html)

[ToSeek]

Whenever I switch to supporting a different NASA project, the first thing I have to do (just about) is to pick up on all the acronyms specific to that project. I remember opening up a document (for EUVE, I think), and there were six on the first page.

[Trebuchet]

My company has a special web page for searching acronyms. "ABC" results in 28 answers, although probably only a third or so of them are internal. You can actually choose among a list of sources in which to search for your acronym. All of which are themselves, acronyms!

[sarongsong]

Ooh---here's http://acronymfinder.com/Find out what any acronym, abbreviation, or initialism stands for...initialism...http://www.bautforum.com/images/icons/icon7.gif