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ElMuertoMonkey
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Panel Blasts Agencies as 'Dead Wrong' on Iraqi Weapons
Report Criticizes U.S. for Lack of Knowledge on Adversaries
By KATHERINE SHRADER, AP
WASHINGTON (March 31) - In a scathing report, a presidential commission said Thursday that America's spy agencies were ''dead wrong'' when it came to claims that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction before the war. It said the United States knows ''disturbingly little'' about nuclear threats posed by many of its most dangerous adversaries.
The commission called for dramatic change to prevent future failures. It outlined 74 recommendations and said that President Bush could implement most of them without action by Congress. It urged Bush to give broader powers to John Negroponte, his choice to be the new director of national intelligence, to deal with any challenges to his authority from the CIA, Defense Department or other elements of the nation's 15 spy agencies.
It also called for sweeping changes at the FBI to combine the bureau's counterterrorism and counterintelligence resources into a new office.
''The central conclusion is one which I share. America's intelligence community needs fundamental change,'' Bush said after receiving the unsparing critique.
He said he had directed Fran Townsend, his White House-based homeland security adviser, to ''review the commission's finding and to assure that concrete actions are taken.''
Bush read a prepared statement, flanked by retired Judge Laurence Silberman, a Republican, and former Democratic Sen. Charles Robb of Virginia, co-chairmen of the panel.
The president then strode from the room, leaving the two men behind to field questions on the report that criticized past performance but didn't stop there. ''Our collection agencies are often unable to gather intelligence on the very things we care the most about,'' the evaluation said.
Well of course they were wrong! And they'll likely reccommend that the intelligence community be put under the Pentagon's aegis as Rumsfeld wants.
Convenient, I think, how the report came after the election and places all of the blame on ther people's shoulders despite the fact that the U.N. weapons inspectors had concluded that Iraq had no WMD or related programs...
More finger-pointing and agenda-pursuit from the White House... so what else is new?
Report Criticizes U.S. for Lack of Knowledge on Adversaries
By KATHERINE SHRADER, AP
WASHINGTON (March 31) - In a scathing report, a presidential commission said Thursday that America's spy agencies were ''dead wrong'' when it came to claims that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction before the war. It said the United States knows ''disturbingly little'' about nuclear threats posed by many of its most dangerous adversaries.
The commission called for dramatic change to prevent future failures. It outlined 74 recommendations and said that President Bush could implement most of them without action by Congress. It urged Bush to give broader powers to John Negroponte, his choice to be the new director of national intelligence, to deal with any challenges to his authority from the CIA, Defense Department or other elements of the nation's 15 spy agencies.
It also called for sweeping changes at the FBI to combine the bureau's counterterrorism and counterintelligence resources into a new office.
''The central conclusion is one which I share. America's intelligence community needs fundamental change,'' Bush said after receiving the unsparing critique.
He said he had directed Fran Townsend, his White House-based homeland security adviser, to ''review the commission's finding and to assure that concrete actions are taken.''
Bush read a prepared statement, flanked by retired Judge Laurence Silberman, a Republican, and former Democratic Sen. Charles Robb of Virginia, co-chairmen of the panel.
The president then strode from the room, leaving the two men behind to field questions on the report that criticized past performance but didn't stop there. ''Our collection agencies are often unable to gather intelligence on the very things we care the most about,'' the evaluation said.
Well of course they were wrong! And they'll likely reccommend that the intelligence community be put under the Pentagon's aegis as Rumsfeld wants.
Convenient, I think, how the report came after the election and places all of the blame on ther people's shoulders despite the fact that the U.N. weapons inspectors had concluded that Iraq had no WMD or related programs...
More finger-pointing and agenda-pursuit from the White House... so what else is new?
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