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David Ignatius calls out Bush
Don't you feel safer?
George, calling on his National Guard flight training, and Dick packin' his shotgun, have kept the bad guys away from this country--the big Daddies keeping the families in the U.S. safe and secure.
Well, not quite according to usually mild-mannered David Ignatius of The Washington Post. Ignatius is a Council on Foreign Relations type, a DC-er through and through, a graduate of Harvard and Cambridge and a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal. He is not one to become alarmed about much nor is he quick to point fingers.
But the ineptitude of George Bush has finally lost him.
Ignatius flat out states in the following that the Bush administration has actually accomplished something--making our intelligence capabilities worse. He wants this amended and now, but the problem, as usual, is who is going to do just that? Not the incompetents currently in charge who have created the mess.
Gain what solace you can that the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board has apparently interceded and is working to determine how bad things are. But once that is ascertained, our heavenly-connected leader will then decree who to blame.
Ah yes, George Bush, our MBA (Masters in Bottomingout Administration) President...
Fix the Intelligence MessTo read the entire article, go here.
By David Ignatius
Friday, April 21, 2006; A23
For the U.S. intelligence community, the warning lights are blinking red. A reorganization that was supposed to bring greater coordination has instead produced a layering of responsibilities and bureaucratic confusion. A demoralized CIA that needed professional management is chafing under a Republican former congressman who has proved to be the most political and ineffective director in the agency's history.
Look at the organizational chart of the new Office of the Director of National Intelligence and you wonder if America has become a Third World country with a rival intelligence agency for each patch of turf. At last count, there were 16 different spy units under the DNI's umbrella -- a number that puts even Syria to shame. In theory, this flotilla of spy agencies is being supervised by a deputy responsible for "customer outcomes," whatever that means, and three other deputy directors. The organization chart gives each of the four a peppy two-word mission statement: "Want It," "Know It," "Get It" and "Build It."
I'd like to suggest a new mission for John Negroponte, the man who sits atop this intelligence ziggurat: "Fix It." One year on, the intelligence reorganization isn't working. It has overanalyzed the little problems without solving the big ones. It hasn't succeeded in coordinating the various agencies, and it has allowed the biggest problem of all -- the disarray at the CIA -- to get even worse. I'm told that several foreign intelligence services have recently observed a decline in CIA performance, which should scare us all...
...The Bush administration, unfortunately, is a big part of what's wrong...
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