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...shortage of surveillance specialists makes round-the-clock monitoring of suspects difficult, if not impossible, in many cities. This means that if the FBI tracks down someone dangerous in, say, San Antonio, Texas, it might not be able to keep an eye on him. Despite Mueller's focus on terrorism, agents are sometimes pulled away to handle traditional criminal cases. A long-awaited and badly needed computer overhaul is overbudget and behind schedule. Which means, the commission stated, "the FBI still does not know what's in its files." A longtime FBI analyst put it this way: "The FBI director...
...FBI is somewhat open to outside reform, the CIA is ever on guard against it. The agency has always been better than the FBI at doing bureaucratic judo, working the press or finding a CLASSIFIED stamp for documents that it may not want to see the light of day. The commission found and disclosed a number of these last week that suggested the CIA was slow to report, if not detect, the jihadist army that was forming on the horizon in the 1990s. The commission reported that though al-Qaeda was formed in 1988, the CIA "did not describe...
...commission found that the CIA shares some of the FBI's recessive genes: 18 months passed between the time the agency was told that hijacker Khalid al-Midhar had obtained a U.S. visa and the time the CIA put his name and that of his traveling companion, also a hijacker, on a government watch list. Tenet told his top managers in 1998 that the CIA was "at war" with bin Laden, but the word never really filtered down through the agency, much less to other arms of the intelligence community. The CIA had follow-through problems. The German government gave...
That attitude seemed only to feed the commission's growing appetite for reform. "We've been struck," said Lehman last week, "by a real difference between our interaction with the FBI and our interaction with the agency. The bureau ... has fundamentally admitted they're an agency that is deeply dysfunctional and broken ... whereas the attitude we kind of get from the CIA is ... 'Hey, you know, we're the CIA,' ... kind of a smugness and arrogance toward deep reform...
Even in this environment, some changes are certain, particularly at the FBI. House Republican Wolf is preparing legislation that would create what he calls a "service within the service" at the FBI to focus on intelligence gathering, not law enforcement. It would be staffed with its own corps of spies recruited from college campuses, the CIA and other agencies. According to his allies in Congress, Mueller is leaning toward this idea himself. Meanwhile, support is growing on the Hill for a plan drafted by two-time National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft that would create a new intelligence czar with budget...