Talk:Naval Criminal Investigative Service

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What about the british NCIS, National Criminal Intelligence Service http://www.ncis.co.uk/ ?

1 Outlandish Marcinko Claims
2 Size?
3 Which director?
4 Controversy and Neutrality
5 Opening

[edit] Outlandish Marcinko Claims

There really should be substantiated somewhere as quite a bit of his autobiography has been ripped apart as pure nonsense. Batman2005 01:03, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Size?

Article should mention its personnel count. Tempshill 03:20, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Which director?

I removed this part: "The director cameoed on one episode as a retiring agent." Which director, the one form the agency or the one from the show? Please re-insert and clarify if you know (though you might reconsider if it's the show's), and please add the name.

[edit] Controversy and Neutrality

The section regarding controversies surrounding NCIS and the "gay witch hunts" makes a claim regarding the vigilance of the department towards said witch hunts versus their vigilance towards their stated job that is uncited and sounds more pissed-off than intelligently expressed. I'm not taking any side (for all I know, there could be evidence proving NCIS likes to spend more time rooting out gays), but I think NCIS deserves more level-headed scrutiny than mere hissy fits. My reaction towards an article should be "Huh, that's interesting, I didn't know that", rather than "Really? I think I'm gonna check out how true that is." Sure, it's Wikipedia, but don't say we aren't trying. Saxprodigy 03:21, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

I removed the section. It can be re-added when/if there are references. --Purpleslog 22:20, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Along these lines, not sure how "Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military" is directly relevant as a reference to "NCIS in the Media"... certainly would be appropriate under an article discussing "Don't ask don't tell"... as such I pulled it. Macboots 23:45, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Opening

The first paragraph sounds like a marketing or recruitment piece and doesn't actually say what the agency does. I don't know enough about the subject to properly remedy it, but hopefully someone out there does. Cheers JonoP 17:44, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

That's because I think it's from the official NCIS website. I'm in the same boat you are, JonoP. Saxprodigy 22:33, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

"United States Department of the Navy" and "primary Law Enforcement Agency" sound pretty clear and direct to me. What change to increase clarity do you suggest? --Purpleslog 22:22, 17 August 2007 (UTC)