Originally Posted by Rochard

Not at all; I understand "chain of command". I'm just saying the bigger the numbers get the more problems you have.

I was in the Marines for four years. There were times when I knew my commanding officer pretty good, but there were other times when the only conversation I had with my commanding officer was all of three minutes long, and included introductions of a dozen other people at the same time.

We have millions of people working for our intelligence agencies, either directly or as "contractors". It's surprising this doesn't happen more often.