Lawmakers Say Misstatements Cloud F.B.I. Chief's Credibility

New York Times ^ | 5/31/02 | PHILIP SHENON

[philman_36]

Here is one that I really like...
NSPD-5: Review of U.S. Intelligence May 9, 2001 [Text Not Available]
On May 9, 2001 President Bush issued National Security Presidential Directive 5 which calls for a comprehensive review of U.S. intelligence.
The review is intended to "ensure that U.S. intelligence capabilities are honed to serve us on a wide range of critical challenges that face us now and in the future."
The review is to be conducted by two panels named by DCI George Tenet. One panel will be comprised of selected governmental officials. The second panel, to be named by Tenet in conjunction with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, will be composed of nongovernmental experts.
The review has "a broad mandate to challenge the status quo and explore new and innovative techniques, systems, practices and processes" for foreign intelligence, according to a White House press statement.
The panels were to report to the President in summer 2001.

[philman_36]

Loeb, Vernon. "U.S. Intelligence Efforts to Get Major Review." Washington Post, 12 May 2001, A3.

On 9 May 2001, President George W. Bush signed National Security Presidential Directive 5, ordering "a comprehensive review of the nation's intelligence capabilities." DCI George J. Tenet is directed "to determine how the CIA and a dozen sister agencies are coping with rapid technological change and difficult new targets.... Tenet must name an internal panel of intelligence officials and an external panel from the private sector to conduct the review and make recommendations. The directive calls for Tenet to consult with national security adviser Condoleezza Rice in naming the external team."

Loeb, Vernon. "CIA Panel May Lack Voice for Change." Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2001, A13.

The eight-member panel of experts selected by DCI George J. Tenet to conduct a "comprehensive review" of U.S. intelligence is headed by retired Gen. Brent Scowcroft and includes retired Adm. David Jeremiah; former CIA deputy director Richard Kerr; former undersecretary of state Stapleton Roy; former deputy attorney general Jamie Gorelick; John Foster, a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 1973 to 1990; Jeong Kim, an information technology expert who serves on the board of In-Q-Tel; and William Schneider, a businessman who heads the Defense Science Board.

Some questions exist as to whether the panel includes "voices for radical change." According to Robert D. Steele, who heads Open Source Solutions: "There isn't a single iconoclast in the group." However, Jack Devine, a former top CIA operations official, disagrees, noting that "the Scowcroft panel is more than a rubber stamp for the status quo, particularly with people such as Kerr and Jeremiah on board."

[philman_36]

And just to cover FR's behind...GENERAL POST-WORLD WAR II ...that is where I got the previous excerpts from.

[Elkiejg]

G*D, this is all so depressing. Why do I feel like the inmates are in charge????

[philman_36]

Why do I feel like the inmates are in charge????
A rhetorical question, but I'll try...Because of your innate sense of unease, much like the fight or flight response each of us possesses.
Just a guess.

[RJCogburn]

Good post bump.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the INFORMATION.

[philman_36]

I like to share. Many times it is to my own detriment.

[philman_36]

Now go find something important to research.
I already have.

[PGalt]

The TRUTH needs no clarification or defense. It stands on its own.

[philman_36]

A little more...EPIC Analysis of New Justice Department Guidelines on Searching and Seizing Computers

[philman_36]

You folks may or may not find some of this stuff important.
Just wanted to let ya'll know it was here. I don't know who else to flag who might be interested.

[rdavis84]

We're a diminishing number, alright.

I posted this comment on another thread, going to keep it up, too :-) ---

It's amazing to me that FR "readers" appear to be so narrowly focused on protecting their guys that they Can't consider the coming abuses at an order of magnitude of probably 10 by the next Clinton administration.

I really have lost any possible future sympathy for them and the rest of the sheep who're riding their bandwagon.

[Fred Mertz]

Too few see what's happening. Ain't it a shame?

[Betty Jo]

Ethel and I are going out to buy new gowns!

[Betty Jo]

Aint it downright @#$&^%$@*&% amazing how they talk out of both sides of their mouths?

"The computers are so bad, churchs dont even want them as donations"

Yet we see the above nfo re:their top-notch equipment!

Excuse my #%&@*,but what is PROMISE?

What about Carnovore?

I hate to go "ART BELLISH" but could our stooges be coming clinicly unglued?

Remember the "beams" pointed at our embassy in Russia way back?

What improvements have been made since then?

Maybe they are all acting goofy because they are being made GOOFY!

[rdavis84]

Some thought that I was just kidding, but I meant it when I said that this recycled administration of daddy bush's is SENILE!

Note I'm leaving the "Leader of the Pack" out of this one. I don't want to get started :-)

[philman_36]

Aint it downright @#$&^%$@*&% amazing how they talk out of both sides of their mouths?
I believe that is SOP and par for the course.
Tell a lie long enough...

[nightowl]

Get off Mueller's back. He was only sworn in on 9/4/01, ONE WEEK BEFORE 9/11. He is a good honorable man and I think he has been screwed by some Clintonites still in the bureau. For God's sake, he is a decorated Marine veteran & he will straigthen their butts out. He has already gotten rid of the top thugs who were there & replaced them. (Great Move). There is certainly something wrong with the FBI when the director AND the President had infor withheld from them even AFTER 9/11. I'm just saying, give the man a break.

[Betty Jo]

I'll give him a "PRETZEL!"