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| Author: | M21 Sniper [ 18 Aug 2004, 20:25 ] |
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US intelligence system in "crisis" -- former arms inspector David Kay Wed Aug 18, 4:41 PM ET Add Politics - AFP to My Yahoo! WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former arms inspector David Kay painted a dire portrait of the state of US intelligence, saying the infrastructure is so broken that even the appointment of an national intelligence czar was not likely to fix it. AFP/File Photo Kay, who resigned in January as the head of the Iraq (news - web sites) Survey Group -- the US outfit tasked with the futile exercise of hunting down Baghdad's alleged weapons of mass destruction program -- said the US intelligence network was in a full-blown crisis, pointing to a series of cataclysmic lapses, including the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and the flawed intelligence on Iraq's weapons program. "The US intelligence community is in a crisis, and this crisis is so grave that it weakens an essential underpinning of both our diplomatic and our national military security capabilities and their ability to support US national interests," Kay said at a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee. "Remedying this crisis cannot be simply achieved by naming a National Intelligence Director. What is necessary is vision, and an unswerving commitment to serving the nation beyond the political and policy interests of any one particular administration," he said. He made his remarks at one of nearly two dozen separate congressional hearings to be held this month to review last month's findings by the independent September 11 Commission into intelligence lapses that allowed the attacks to be carried out. Lawmakers are meeting this month to consider ways to overhaul the US intelligence system by adopting the bipartisan panel's findings, which included creating a national coordinator of US intelligence -- which Kay deems a potentially useful move, but not sufficient to fully resolve the current problems. "I am concerned that simply creating a National Intelligence Director ... will end up not addressing the real problems -- particularly if we continue to say "everyone is at fault, therfore no one can be held responsible." "If this crisis is to be resolved, it will require an effort at least as great as that that went into creating the intelligence community, in the most dire part of the Cold War," he said. "Instead of holding people responsible, we reward them for failure. Unless you change that part of the culture, organizational shuffling of deck chairs has no hope of being successful." Need i remind anyone here who cut our intelligence budget for the last decade, or which party castrated our agents with restriction after restriction? Hint: It starts with a D. "I came here to kick ass and chew bubblegum...and i'm all out of bubblegum". |
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