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Panel Questions New Agency's Powers
by Jeremy at 9:20 am EDT, Jun 10, 2002

President Bush's plan to create a Department of Homeland Security doesn't go far enough to prevent the kind of intelligence lapses that took place before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. His proposal doesn't give the head of the new department control ...

Richard Shelby: "It doesn't address ... the intelligence problems that we have."

Bob Graham: the FBI and CIA "don't talk very well to each other".

Joe Lieberman: "What most infuriates and aggravates us ... is the absolute failure of the intelligence community to share information with the law enforcement community and vice versa."

Graham and Lieberman seem to be missing something fundamental; if you give "intel" to the cops, then the suspect walks. End of story. Besides, I don't think anyone plans to arrest, convict, and incarcerate (for life!) every agent of al Qaeda. However, the reverse path (giving intel analysts access to federal wiretaps, collected evidence, etc. ... perhaps even suspects) is helpful and should be in place.


 
 
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