Spies fear that a consulting firm helped hobble U.S. intelligence
America’s vast spying apparatus was built around a Cold War world of dead drops and double agents. Today, that world has fractured and migrated online, with hackers and rogue terrorist cells, leaving intelligence operatives scrambling to keep up.
Additionally, some of McKinsey’s multi-million dollar contracts have been awarded without a competitive bidding process, a move meant to speed up timelines but one that critics say enabled the consulting firm to offer formulaic fixes without fear of losing any business.By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Pfeiffer said he doesn’t know “a soul at CIA or NSA who would tell you that the reorganizations have made things better.”The issue has made its way to Capitol Hill, where an aide to the House Intelligence Committee said the panel, which oversees the nation’s intelligence apparatus, said the complaints surrounding the reorganizations and McKinsey's role "is something that the committee is following and doing oversight over.
poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201907/632/1155968404_6054342619001_6054339995001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404"McKinsey is one of the world’s most successful consulting firms. Nearly a century old, the elite firm has over 100 offices worldwide, nearly 30,000 employees and has advised presidents and fueled Wall Street’s rise.
One outcome was to merge the agency’s offensive and defensive cybersecurity teams, a nod to the increasingly complex nature of digital threats. But the decision exacerbated simmering tensions with the private sector. Julian added that “as is the case with any organization, we continue to refine and make adjustments as NSA must be poised to nimbly respond to an ever changing adversarial landscape. Our work to help secure the 2018 midterm election is a prime example of ever changing mission priorities.”
A former CIA official who witnessed the transformation said the reorganization “was overwhelmingly led by a team of senior CIA officers,” and noted that the CIA changes “were big and have largely survived” under President Donald Trump “because they were needed and were very widely accepted and praised.”
ODNI, which brought McKinsey on board for its own restructuring, suffered from many of the same restructuring issues that employees complained about at the NSA and CIA, according to several current and former intelligence officials. With the more recent intelligence community restructuring, officials have also been vexed by what appears to be a lack of a competitive bidding process — McKinsey seemed to seamlessly transition from working with CIA, to NSA, to ODNI via “no-bid” contracts, these people said, despite lingering skepticism over the firm’s effectiveness.
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