The National Intelligence Directorate was in theory, a watchdog agency that provided civilian oversight for Intelligence Agencies and Special Forces. In practice only a fraction of the agency was devoted to its legitimate business and every congressman, bureaucrat, and officer with sufficient rank or pull and a desire to micromanage used the agency as a tool to try and cut themselves a piece of the Intelligence/Special Operations pie. The agency was the perfect cover for all sorts of less than legal or legitimate operations that needed the cover of a governmental agency. In short, it was a madhouse of every petty micromanaging megalomaniac's pet project, shoehorned into an ever burgeoning budget, all theoretically under the aegis of civilian oversight, a function that occupied no more than eight percent of the NID's actual funding or personnel. There were a few honest and conscientious men in the agency, like Agent Barrett, but for the most part, the NID was full of men of at best mercenary and at worst, utterly degenerate character.
My opinion of what the NID is. makes slightly more sense than most of the portrayals i've slogged through on TTH.
My opinion of what the NID is. makes slightly more sense than most of the portrayals i've slogged through on TTH.