"Neither will you have those who do the actual intelligence gathering at the meetings, more the director level, who direct policy, and are well versed in the politics, as opposed to being at the coal face, as in any large organisation."
Firstly, we were talking about intelligence gathering, so those were the treaties I meant.
Secondly, if you drag directors away from any organisation to be involved with agreeing treaties with up to 27 different countries, that leaves them very little time for, well, directing.
To be honest, I don't work for the intelligence gathering community but in any company dragging away the CEO and his ET for this sort of major stuff means poorer performance.