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White House Might Support Terrorism Czar
The White House is considering whether to support a proposal to create a national director of intelligence to oversee the entire U.S. intelligence community, Bush administration officials said yesterday (see GSN, April 8). The proposal, which was initially drafted more than a year ago, is being reviewed now as a possible response to charges by the national commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that the current intelligence system is too fragmented, officials said. There are concerns, though, that the U.S. Defense Department’s reluctance to give up its share of the $40 billion intelligence budget, as well as a common belief that competition among intelligence agencies is beneficial, may hinder efforts to modify the existing system, Bush administration officials said. In his appearance before the Sept. 11 commission Wednesday, CIA Director George Tenet seemingly acknowledged flaws in the current structure of the intelligence community but warned against separating the position of CIA director from the overall head of intelligence, according to the New York Times. “I believe that if you separate the DCI [director of central intelligence] from the troops, from operators and analysts, I have a concern about his or her effectiveness,” he said. “I wouldn’t separate the individual from the institution,” Tenet added (Douglas Jehl, New York Times, April 16).
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