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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10179307%255E1702,00.html CIA chief 'could be tsar' >From correspondents in Washington July 19, 2004THE United States was today considering a vast overhaul of its spy agencies, as the official inquiry into the September 11 attacks prepared a report expected to call for a new intelligence tsar - a post the acting CIA boss said should stay within his agency. The September 11 commission, whose final report is due on Thursday, will reportedly call for the creation of a cabinet-level post that would take power from the CIA, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Council and Pentagon to oversee intelligence gathering. US intelligence services have been battered by scathing criticism this month, after the Senate Intelligence Committee released its own report that found pre-war estimates of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were overstated or unfounded. Acting CIA chief John McLaughlin, in the latest in a string of public appearances aimed at blunting the criticism, said today that with "modest changes", the director of the Central Intelligence Agency could fill most of the roles of the proposed intelligence tsar. "I see the director of Central Intelligence as someone who is able to do that and is empowered to do so under the National Security Act of 1947," Mr McLaughlin told Fox News Sunday. "With some modest changes in the way the CIA is set up, the director of Central Intelligence could carry out that function well and appropriately." After the Senate report on the CIA's pre-war failings in Iraq, and with the September 11 inquiry expected to cite problems across the board at US intelligence agencies, political support is growing in both parties for a new post that would oversee all aspects of the world's largest and best-financed spy network. The New York Times said that under the intelligence tsar proposal, the Pentagon and the CIA "would have to cede significant authority over the Government's estimated $US40 billion ($55.51 billion) intelligence budget and other policy matters". Under the proposal, the CIA director, who now reports directly to the White House, would have to go through the new national intelligence director, the Times quoted one official as saying. Republican Senator Arlen Specter, of Pennsylvania, told NBC television that an intelligence tsar had been "a long time in coming," and that he believed US President George W. Bush would be receptive to the proposal. "I think there has to be more than a threat integration centre," he said. "You have very strong cultures of concealment in both the FBI and the CIA, and what you have to have is somebody very strong, and very tough at the top of the organisation who doesn't co-ordinate but who can direct." Democratic presidential contender John Kerry made a similar proposal last week, saying: "We need to create a true director of national intelligence with the ability to manage and direct the myriad components of the intelligence community." The post, Mr Kerry said, should include "authority over the budget, operations, personnel and the exchange of information". But Mr McLaughlin said that many of the shortcomings before September 11 - notably the lack of co-ordination among US agencies - had already been fixed. "The intelligence community of today is not the intelligence community of 9/11. The intelligence community of that day was for counter-terrorism, 300 people spread-eagled across a dike," he said. "We've gained a lot of experience in doing joint operations with the FBI. The intelligence community is totally latched up on this. "Still a tough fight. And again, I don't want to be falsely reassuring here." Agence France-Presse ------------------------ Yahoo! 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