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...that is not the only Achilles' heel in the system. The CIA IG's report cites the National Security Agency's unwillingness to share raw intercepts with the CIA. Who knows what is in the NSA's raw databases on al-Midhar and al-Hazmi...
...Blaming George Tenet or any other CIA manager for 9/11 lapses is to misunderstand the problem. Neither Tenet nor any other CIA director has ever had the mandate or the authority to force the NSA to share its raw databases with CIA analysts. Nor has any director had the mandate or authority to integrate FBI and CIA communications. This is the President and Congress' prerogative...
...After McConnell left the NSA, he never lost his taste for technology. Joining Booz Allen Hamilton, the mega consulting firm, McConnell spent the next 10 years selling gadgets and software to the government. In 2002, Booz Allen won a $63 million "data mining" contract with the Pentagon. The general idea behind it was that if you sift through enough public data, you can spot a terrorist, and McConnell was a strong backer of the program. But Booz Allen's contract was cancelled when civil libertarians objected to the government going though Americans' personal records without a warrant...
...unlikely McConnell is going to see this as a particular problem. After all, McConnell's NSA couldn't exist without the technology developed by private companies and contractors...
...Rank and file at the CIA will look at McConnell's appointment as part of a trend shifting intelligence away from human sources, the CIA's bread and butter, to the Pentagon, the NSA, technology and outsourcing...