David Kay: US intelligence community is in a crisis, is broken

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http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,10495170%255E1702,00.html
US intel system in crisis: Kay
From correspondents in Washington
19aug04

FORMER US arms inspector David Kay today painted a dire portrait of the state of US intelligence, saying the infrastructure was so broken that even the appointment of an national intelligence tsar was unlikely to fix it.

Mr Kay, who resigned in January as the head of the Iraq Survey Group - the US outfit tasked with hunting down Baghdad's alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program - said the US intelligence network was in a full-blown crisis, pointing to a series of cataclysmic lapses, including the September 11, 2001, terrorist 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," Mr Kay said at a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

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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.

"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, therefore no-one can be held responsible'..... Instead of holding people responsible, we reward them for failure. Unless you change that part of the culture, organisational shuffling of deck chairs has no hope of being successful."

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1. As I recall, Bush didn't even know who Kay was

They asked him during the early part of the war about who was in charge of searching for the WMD's, and he didn't know the guy's name.

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2. Kay is on CSpan now testifying eom

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3. Like everything else in this country.

Broken by the boy king....and he worked hard to wreck our intel. I wonder sometimes if GWB really hated his father and decided to wreck the CIA just to spite the old man?

Amazing what 1 incompetent person can accomplish. One person can make a difference!

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4. yeah, but we're safer, right?