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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: H-Man who wrote (180315)	9/13/2001 9:27:48 AM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 769670

austin360.com Satellites versus people Turzanski and others traced the decline in human intelligence gathering to the tenure of Adm. Stansfield Turner as the CIA chief during the 1970s. "The thinking was that we put a KH12 spy satellite in orbit and it will tell us what we need to know. We don't have to go to the cost and difficulty of putting an operative in place," Turzanski said. But he noted that a satellite "can't go into an Afghan cafe" to overhear plotting among a handful of terrorists. Turner, now a University of Maryland professor of public affairs, said he did emphasize the effectiveness of spy satellites, but not at the expense of human intelligence. He said cuts made under his tenure were necessary to reduce an agency in the wake of the Vietnam War and had been proposed by his predecessor, former President George Bush.