INTEL CENTERS CAUSE CONFUSION

Whodda thought, eh? All that easedropping and all those phone records and bank records are so confusing!!! All this new fangled intel is tough to deal with. If you don't believe me, just ask Ted Stevens!!!

Report: New Intel Centers Create Coordination Problems
Thursday, July 06, 2006

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WASHINGTON — Lack of coordination and other problems with government-run centers are hurting the effort to provide better analysis of the nation's intelligence, according to a report in a CIA journal.

Some of these centers have existed for years to improve U.S. efforts against terrorism, weapons proliferation and other threats. But the creation of new ones — such as the National Counterterrorism Center — has become a commonly used remedy in the intelligence overhaul sparked by Sept. 11 and the botched prewar intelligence on Iraq.

The article in the newly declassified Studies in Intelligence argues that experts on particular countries or regions should not be split up into centers that focus on single issues that cross the borders of nations or continents.

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