9/11 Panel Is Said to Sharply Fault Role of Congress

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/22/politics/22panel.html

[mike_c]

1. please summarize...

...for those of us who don't want to give our e-mail address to the NYT.

[Miss Authoritiva]

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[umtalal]

4. great link n/t

[umtalal]

3. Some of the Article Itself.

July 22, 2004
By CARL HULSE and PHILIP SHENON

ASHINGTON, July 21 - The unanimous final report of the Sept. 11 commission will sharply criticize Congress for failing in its role as overall watchdog over the nation's intelligence agencies and will call for wholesale changes in the way lawmakers oversee intelligence agencies and the Homeland Security Department, lawmakers and others briefed on the panel's findings said Wednesday.

The people who went to the briefings said proposals to revise Congressional oversight would be among dozens of sweeping recommendations aimed at preventing future attacks. The report, scheduled to be made public on Thursday, will detail the intelligence and law-enforcement failures that preceded the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Lawmakers and other government officials who have read or been briefed on the book-length report said that among its recommendations the commission would call for a reorganization of domestic-intelligence programs within the F.B.I., although not for a separate domestic security intelligence agency; for an office within the White House with an estimated 200 employees to coordinate the work of the 15 intelligence agencies; and for an interagency counterterrorism center to absorb the smaller antiterrorism center that the C.I.A. operates.

Lawmakers and other government officials who have read or been briefed on the book-length report said that among its recommendations the commission would call for a reorganization of domestic-intelligence programs within the F.B.I., although not for a separate domestic security intelligence agency; for an office within the White House with an estimated 200 employees to coordinate the work of the 15 intelligence agencies; and for an interagency counterterrorism center to absorb the smaller antiterrorism center that the C.I.A. operates.

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[umtalal]

6. we will do. thanks. n/t