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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=8/21/2004&Cat=4&Num=15ah the smell of blood...innit wonderful? They are a bunch of voyeur losers trying to instill CIA tactics in America...NOW---OFF WITH THEIR HEADS U.S. intelligence system in "crisis": David Kay WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former arms inspector David Kay offered a bleak assessment of the state of U.S. intelligence, saying that even naming a intelligence czar was not likely to fix the problems unless other significant reforms are undertaken. Kay, who resigned in January as the head of the Iraq Survey Group tasked with hunting down Baghdad's alleged weapons of mass destruction program, said the U.S. intelligence network was in a full-blown crisis, and pointed to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and the flawed intelligence on Iraq's weapons program as evidence. "The U.S. 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 in August 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 proposals to overhaul the U.S. intelligence system, including the possible creation of a national coordinator of U.S. intelligence. Kay told lawmakers he had no strong feelings one way or another about the creation of an intelligence "czar" but said any such figure must be invested with real powers and must undertake real reform. "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." "Unless the newly appointed director of central intelligence takes on as his first responsibility correcting the obvious failures that you have so thoroughly documented, that the national intelligence director has no hope of success," he said. He also cited the findings of the senate committee's own report on faulty intelligence to slam the CIA in particular, but said he was surprised that no one has been called to account for the lapses. "Iraq was an overwhelming, systemic failure of the Central Intelligence Agency," Kay said, describing what he termed "a broken culture and management" within the agency. "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," he said. "Until this is taken onboard, and people and organizations are held responsible for this failure, I have real difficulty seeing how a national intelligence director can correct these failings," Kay said. He added: "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 urged lawmakers to take full advantage of the intense focus on US intelligence since the publication of the 9/11 report to institute thorough reforms. "This is a chance that comes along largely once a generation. And if you don't get it right now, we will live with the consequences until the next disaster." www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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