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| 2008-04-07 |
| Fixing the intelligence problem should be at the top of the agenda for the next president. It's too late for the Bush administration to do much, except make things worse. The reorganization that created the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was a mistake, forced on a reluctant Bush administration by a Congress determined to show it was doing something to fix the problems that led to 9/11. But the "reform" has actually made some of those problems worse. It embodied the classic Washington response of throwing in more money and a new organization chart. What we have created is more confusion. When the next president thinks about fixing the CIA, he or she ought to consider the radical thought that it's time to blow up the CIA and start over. |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #4 Scrap the whole thing and start from scratch? Spoken like a true communist. |
| Posted by: Injun Elmealing3304 2008-04-07 21:51 |
| #3 Which won't happen until the adults take back control of the Democrats. Too late, Pappy - Truman died years ago. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-04-07 19:49 |
| #2 The general mistrust of intelligence is spilling over into the agency's contacts with U.S. corporations... Corporate CEOs considering whether to help the government today tell intelligence officials that they would like to be patriotic, but they can't expose shareholders to the risk of litigation. That's a worry Congress should help remove. Which won't happen until the adults take back control of the Democrats. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2008-04-07 19:47 |
| #1 OK, Nimble, before I respond I have to know: Is this article bait for some kind of trap or something? :-) |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-04-07 17:03 |