Monday, August 02, 2004

Changes have been implemented

One of the biggest failings of US Intelligence agencies before the attack on 9-11 was their lack of cooperation and sharing of information. The correction per the commission is to create a new agency that would merge or manage all the intelligence agencies and insure they worked together without any artificial barriers.

Well, the agencies seem to have learned their lesson and have been and are working together. A re-org of the US intelligence may be necessary but now, the CIA, FBI and Defense are working together and meeting together. And the results have been impressive.

Before 9-11, the agencies and the Justice Department was overly concerned about preventing ANY action that could violate privacy or due process both domestically and overseas. Now there has been a correcting balance so the agencies can work together without having to have the Justice Department sign off on everything. Hopefully the agencies will have learned their lessons and also keep thing in balance to prevent the problems from the 1960's which lead to the over correction of the 1970s and later.

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