(GOP SAY) Caution Is Urged in Intelligence Overhaul

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40983-2004Aug4.html
Caution Is Urged in Intelligence Overhaul
Democrat Assails Go-Slow Approach

By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 5, 2004; Page A10


The Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee yesterday called on colleagues to be cautious in legislating reform of the intelligence community, prompting criticism from the panel's ranking Democrat that the process is moving too slowly.

Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.), a former CIA case officer, opened the panel's first hearing in response to the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations, telling colleagues that "we can ill afford to rush to judgment, any more than we can tolerate needless delay."

"The unintended consequences of action we take could wreak havoc if we get it wrong. So we aren't going to go there," said Goss, who has introduced his own bill to reorganize the nation's intelligence system.

Goss's statement drew an immediate response from the panel's ranking Democrat, Rep. Jane Harman (Calif.), who noted that several other congressional committees have also begun hearings on intelligence reform.

"While they are moving forward . . . this committee appears to be moving in reverse," she said. Harman has introduced a bill of her own, which, like Goss's, includes provisions similar to the commission's recommendations. She urged Goss to "mark up and vote on real legislation that will make our country safer." <snip>

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-intel5aug05.story
THE NATION
Key Lawmaker Not Sold on Intelligence Czar

House Armed Services Committee chief says he won't be 'steamrollered' into sweeping reforms.
By Mary Curtius and Greg Miller Times Staff Writers August 5, 2004

WASHINGTON — A key congressional Republican signaled his opposition Wednesday to one of the central recommendations to reform the intelligence community, saying he would not be "steamrollered" into creating a post of national intelligence director.

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-El Cajon), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said he feared that putting one official in charge of all 15 U.S. intelligence agencies, as proposed by the commission that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks, could hamper the ability of the Pentagon to wage war.

"A great deal of intelligence assets are under the control of the Department of Defense," Hunter said, "and they have, on a momentary basis, lives on the line."

Hunter said that in war zones such as Afghanistan and Iraq, commanders relied on real-time intelligence to make battle decisions.

"It makes sense that you shouldn't have that intelligence stopped or impeded by some guy back in Washington, D.C., who says, 'I want to use that platform for something else,' " Hunter said. "We are not going to be steamrollered in the Armed Services Committee."<snip>

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1. LMAO!

The GOP has had the worst intelligence in recent memory, and they are still trying to be the authority on it. HA!

[Joanne98]

2. Let's rush right into it like we did the Patriot Act.

Notice how we don't RUSH when it's something they don't want to do. the selfish greedy pigs can do want they want. BUT if we're attacked it's on their heads......

[soothsayer]

3. We live in a National Security State---the spooks actually run the country

unanswerable to congress or the prez in most cases, funded by godnoze what (sometimes our tax dollars, sometimes stuff they come up with on their own).

They have conducted secret wars, assassinations, developed and tested bio-weapons on unwitting US citizens, brought ex-Nazi scientists onto US gov't employ, installed dictators, and done LOTS of things that we, the people, had no knowledge of, and which in many cases, neither did our representatives.

They are OUT OF CONTROL, and have been for years and years and years.