Panel: "the intelligence community knows disturbingly little . . ."

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Bush Intel Panel Sees Difficult Task Ahead - Fri Apr 1

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=4&u=/ap/20050401/ap_on_go_pr_wh/intelligence_commission


WASHINGTON - (The presidential commission investigating U.S. intelligence and weapons of mass destruction's) 600-plus-page report described an intelligence community hampered by internal turf battles and a fundamental lack of access to hard information, through human sources. It blamed agencies for seeing weapons that didn't exist in Iraq, and it harped on them for failing to find them in other dark corners of the world.

"The flaws we found in the intelligence community's Iraq performance are still all too common," the report said. "Across the board, the intelligence community knows disturbingly little about the nuclear programs of many of the world's most dangerous actors. In some cases, it knows less now than it did five or 10 years ago."

But, the Commision still wants us to believe in the men behind the curtain:

The panel suggested numerous organizational changes and said President Bush could implement most of them without congressional action. It emphasized that the White House needed to put its full weight behind John Negroponte, the president's choice to coordinate the spy community, as Negroponte confronts the intelligence agencies' "almost perfect record of resisting external recommendations."

Bush promised immediate action.


This seems to be a perversion of what was found by the Senate commission. There may have been a lack of coordination of information between agencies, but most of the evidence points to a White House that was bent on ignoring everything except whatever flimsy threads, like the aluminum tubes, suited their determination to invade and occupy Iraq.

Then they recommend that Bush get behind his toadie Negroponte who helped him run the illegal occupation. Bush and his loyal minion, Negroponte, are the least likely characters up there to wield the flawed intelligence with caution and restraint as they continue to use their positions of power to exercise their ambitions for greed and conquest.

Hard to imagine anything coming through this White House and its toadies that can still be called "intelligence".

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. The "Intellgence community" has a long record of blunders.

The ultimate oxymoron.

[EVDebs]

2. Shhhhhhhhh. You're exposing the 'means and methods' of our intell

community !

[Squeech]

3. Maybe

the intelligence community could do a better job if white house sources didn't reveal covert operatives to friendly newspapermen.

Just saying...