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...More alarmingly, in a post-9/11 world, the Strait of Malacca is a tempting target for terrorists. "A terrorist attack [here] would have the kind of high-profile impact on the world economy which terrorists want to achieve," Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister and national security czar Tony Tan told TIME. The case of the Dewi Madrim, Tan says, is particularly worrying: "The Dewi Madrim pirates had fast boats, vhf radios, machine guns. They disabled the ship's radio, took over the helm, and steered the ship for an hour before their escape." All of which, Tan concludes, point...
...second attempt, now comatose, was the National Intelligence Reform Act-the brisk congressional response to last summer's findings of the 9/11 commission. The bill would have created a National Intelligence director to ride herd over the CIA, NSA, parts of the FBI and assorted other intel agencies. The czar would have had budgetary authority and also the power to "design" and "implement" the unified computer network. But two House Republican committee chairmen decided to croak the bill on the weekend before Thanksgiving-in large part because the reform was opposed by the Pentagon, which controls 80% of the intelligence...
...recommendations be enacted immediately-without any input from, or negotiation with, the entrenched panjandrums of the intelligence community. "You can't do intelligence reform without a clear vision and direct marching orders from the President," 9/11 commission member Bob Kerrey told me last week. "If you create an Intelligence Czar, but the President doesn't want to back him fully and give him real authority to build the network, then you might as well deep-six the bill...