noteworthy wrote:
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I just about stopped reading when it "propose[d] a National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)." How can they simulatenously believe in unity of operations and yet another beauracratic black hole?

Another agency is not the answer. Make the Department of Homeland Security the unifying government body, and make the 1-3 top officials in it the Big Giant Heads. Give them the power to get any info they want out of any of the big three (FBI, CIA, NORAD) and give the personnel in the DHS the capability to analyze and confront the implications of the data.

I do agree that we need an agency with the clout to be able to light a fire under the ass of the FBI, CIA, NORAD, etc. at a moment's notice, but please, for the love of reason, don't create yet another government entity. What they are talking about is exactly what the DHS should be used for; making connections across agency borders that assimulate the scads of data collected.

-janelane

RE: Executive Summary of 9/11 Final Report