Friday, July 28, 2006

report on intelligence reform, issued by a House of Representatives


House report criticizes US intelligence on threats - Yahoo! News
Thu Jul 27, 4:27 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence has a poor understanding of threats against the United States, nearly five years after the September 11 attacks prompted the U.S. war on terrorism, according to a report released on Thursday.
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"Poor understanding of the threats and the changing environment in which our officers have to operate has resulted in an insufficient human intelligence capability that does not and will not meet the nation's needs," said the 38-page bipartisan report.
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  • The House report said intelligence analysis was largely ignoring efforts to discover unknown adversaries such as home-grown cells or new information about known enemies including al Qaeda and other militant groups.

"Today, analysis largely is still clustered around reporting on the same 10 percent of the data," it said.

The House report was the latest independent assessment of the Bush administration's failures ...




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