US intelligence reform hampered by lack of vision (Reuters)

[Up2Late]

(Personally, I think their is simply a Lack of Intelligence in the WH.)

US intelligence reform hampered by lack of vision

Mon Jun 6, 2005 03:56 PM ET

By David Morgan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bush administration efforts to reform U.S. intelligence are being hampered by a lack of strategic vision and deficiencies in the FBI and the new National Counterterrorism Center, experts said on Monday. At a forum sponsored by the former Sept. 11 commission, experts said the NCTC was not fully operational, the FBI had yet to make adequate investments in intelligence, and the Homeland Security Department had seen its operations sidelined by older agencies.

Meanwhile, the CIA has been stretched by the demands of U.S. military missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, inhibiting the spy agency on other priorities including the potential threat from European-based Islamist militants. "One of the things that I'm hearing ... is the desperate need for clarity among these various institutions," said former commissioner Jamie Gorelick, who moderated a panel discussion on the changes at the FBI and CIA.

"There is no clear strategic vision how all of this is supposed to work in one large piece," said John Gannon, a former CIA official who once chaired the National Intelligence Council.

Experts said the problems were likely to complicate matters for the newly installed national intelligence czar, John Negroponte, despite marked success at boosting information sharing between intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Monday's forum was the first of eight planned by the five Republicans and five Democrats who presided over a bipartisan investigation of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Their scathing report on intelligence and law enforcement failures rocked the U.S. national security establishment when it appeared last July.

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[geckosfeet]

1. "There is no clear strategic vision" ,,, story of his entire presidency.

[iconoclastic cat]

2. And their intel gathering capability is hampered by a lack of objectivity.

[KansDem]

3. And what really makes this sad is the fraud of an investigation into 9/11

The 9/11 Commission gave the President lying privileges; Bush was not required to give answers under oath. He was permitted to appear behind closed doors and with Cheney holding his hand.

Now the "recommendations" of the 9/11 report will cost US taxpayers billions of $$$ and will be based on lies and deceit.

It never fails to baffle me how this lying POS can be held up by the fundies/freepers as a "God-fearing Christian Patriot..." I thing they've been looking at his lapel pin too much.

[Up2Late]

4. Kick n/t

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