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Most of official Washington is now busy hailing--with varying degrees of sincerity--the passage of the intelligence-reform bill.(The Week)(Brief Article)
* Most of official Washington is now busy hailing--with varying degrees of sincerity--the passage of the intelligence-reform bill. The White House badly wanted the bill, mostly for political reasons. It didn't want the camera-hungry former members of the 9/11 commission to keep pounding it for failing to get the bill passed. And it wanted the bill off the decks so it could concentrate on next year's agenda, including Social Security reform. The creation of a national intelligence director, and the rest of the bill's bureaucratic shuffling, will do little by itself to improve intelligence. That will take an enhanced covert capability and strong leadership at the top, of the ...
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