When we begin - in 2302 - to look at the executive branch, we will note the concept of bureaucratic drift, which refers to the tendency of the mission of an agency to shift gradually over time from what it was originally intended to do, to what the agency - or the president - would prefer it to do.
Here are a couple of stories which show hos the CIA has been transformed since 9/11 "from an intelligence-collection and -analysis operation into a shadow military force."
- An Army in the Shadows
- CIA shifts focus to killing targets.
