President Bush and Congress had better get the intelligence side of the equation right. ... Unfortunately, some circulating proposals would further fragment control ... A clearinghouse makes sense ... The government needs an all-source assessment center ... Some in Congress favor a much more ambitious plan to give the new domestic security department operational control over CIA and FBI officers ... That is an invitation to anarchy in the nation's spy activities. ... Adding yet another spymaster will only make matters worse. The fundamental problem with American intelligence operations is that the CIA, the FBI and their fellow intelligence agencies haven't consistently produced hard information about terror plots. A new department isn't going to solve that problem. Today's New York Times editorial. |