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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: PROLIFE who wrote (550332)	3/10/2004 1:46:37 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) of 769667

LOL. The proposed budget cuts on Intelligence amounted to about 1%. This in a time of relative peace. But more than that the intelligence agencies in this country are huge and bloated bureaucracies. Do you think that throwing more money at these institutions would have made them any more able to avert 9-11? If you think that then you are daft. It's a known fact that the CIA and the FBI were not even communicating effectively between each other. That computer systems were not even being used. There was a phobia against using computers in the business of intelligence data base management. The problem in Washington, as most conservatives would agree is not a lack of funds. But a lack of innovation and use of resources that are already abundant! It was clear that the intelligence agencies in this country were suffering from something not really related to the size of the budget. When Rumsfeld trims the size of forces and opts for smaller lighter and faster, conservatives applaud that. But when someone says...gee the intelligence budget is way out of whack, repukes start blaming intelligence failures on a proposed 1% reduction. That reduction never ocurred by the way and look what was wrought? What we need is a new approach to intelligence that uses more technology and costs less money. A Rumsfeld model of faster, lighter and more efficient needs to be applied to intelligence. The only thing we have done is add to the bureaucracy by creating the Department of Homeland Defense. Part of that department's charge is to try to coordinate and bring together the existing branches of intelligence gathering and to try to make sense of that. My feeling is that we have gotten more bloated in intelligence and less efficient. But changing that is going to take years, and really I take no exception to the way we added on the DHS to make sense of things...it was the best thing we could do on short notice in difficult times. But as we go forward we need to make intelligence better, not by enhancing the budget, but by better utilizing the already huge dollars being spent on intelligence. Orca

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