--- From: "Chuck Mauthe" <cmauthe@private> To: "'Politech'" <declan@private> Subject: Panel Eyes Homeland Spy Service Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:59:32 -0400 Message-ID: <014501c3931c$2db7e660$50a3a8c0@private> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/14/attack/printable577953.shtml Panel Eyes Homeland Spy Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2003 A former CIA director and a former deputy national security adviser on Tuesday advocated major changes to the U.S. intelligence establishment in testimony before the independent commission studying the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. John M. Deutch, CIA director from 1995-1996, and James B. Steinberg, deputy national security adviser in the Clinton administration, endorsed two structural reforms: appointing a director of national intelligence separate from the CIA, and creating a domestic security service modeled after Britain's MI5. "Although some progress has been made," Deutch said in written remarks to the commission, "I doubt that it will be possible to obtain the intelligence capability this country and its citizens deserve without a dramatic realignment that creates an executive authority that places national security first." In an interview on the eve of his testimony, Steinberg said U.S. counterterror efforts remain hampered by decades-old walls separating by law the work of the FBI and CIA. The FBI operates domestically and traditionally focuses on catching law-breakers; the CIA works abroad and focuses on learning secrets. "The beauty of the MI5 model is it breaks down both those walls," said Steinberg, director of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution. The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, which is reviewing intelligence failures as part of its probe of Sept. 11, was also hearing Tuesday from a second former national intelligence director who cautions against dramatic realignment. "No one would question that management can always be improved, but major organizational change is not the salvation," James Schlesinger, director of central intelligence in 1973, said in his prepared testimony. He added, "I would submit that the real challenge lies in recruiting, fostering, and motivating people with insight — and, when necessary, bring about long-term change in the ethos of intelligence organizations." ... _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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