The 9-11 Commission Report
Thoughts?
The commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks called yesterday for the creation of a super CIA-like center within the president's office where U.S. military, intelligence and law enforcement officials together would analyze intelligence and plan domestic and overseas counterterrorism operations, something that is currently prohibited by U.S. law. MSNBC
Key recommendations:
* To create a national counter-terrorism centre "unifying strategic intelligence and operational planning against Islamist terrorists across the foreign and the domestic divide"
* To appoint a new Senate-confirmed national intelligence director to unify the intelligence community of more than dozen agencies
* To create a "network-based information sharing system that transcends traditional governmental boundaries"
* To set up a specialised and integrated national security unit within the FBI; the report did not support creation of a new domestic intelligence agency
* To strengthen congressional oversight
* To strengthen the FBI and Homeland defenders
* To develop global strategy of diplomacy and public relations to dismantle Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terror network and defeat its militant Islamic ideology
* To establish a better dialogue between the West and the Islamic world.
BBC
I'll give my opinion in the morning...
Thoughts?
The commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks called yesterday for the creation of a super CIA-like center within the president's office where U.S. military, intelligence and law enforcement officials together would analyze intelligence and plan domestic and overseas counterterrorism operations, something that is currently prohibited by U.S. law. MSNBC
Key recommendations:
* To create a national counter-terrorism centre "unifying strategic intelligence and operational planning against Islamist terrorists across the foreign and the domestic divide"
* To appoint a new Senate-confirmed national intelligence director to unify the intelligence community of more than dozen agencies
* To create a "network-based information sharing system that transcends traditional governmental boundaries"
* To set up a specialised and integrated national security unit within the FBI; the report did not support creation of a new domestic intelligence agency
* To strengthen congressional oversight
* To strengthen the FBI and Homeland defenders
* To develop global strategy of diplomacy and public relations to dismantle Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terror network and defeat its militant Islamic ideology
* To establish a better dialogue between the West and the Islamic world.
BBC
I'll give my opinion in the morning...