Wednesday, July 21, 2004

Can spy agencies ever work together? / The Christian Science Monitor , 21 July 2004

Can spy agencies ever work together? | csmonitor.com: "Peter Grier and Faye Bowers
Despite failed attempts to reform intelligence structure in the past, the 9/11 report may ensure change happens this time.
Systemic reform of US intelligence may - repeat, may - be something whose time has come.
For decades the CIA and other national intelligence agencies have periodically drawn scrutiny for perceived shortcomings. At times the spotlight has been followed by bureaucratic shake-up. But Langley's spies, the analysts of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and other US intelligence personnel have avoided some of the largest suggested changes, such as the establishment of a more powerful national intelligence director."