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To: Libbyt who wrote (7984)	9/24/2001 7:06:36 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10077

Thank you for posting the Clancy article, Libby.... The foreign-source option seems the most likely at this time. The first line of defense in such a case is the intelligence community. The CIA is an agency of about 18,000 employees, of whom perhaps 800 are field-intelligence officers -- that is, the people who go out on the street and learn what people are thinking, not how many tanks they have parked outside (we have satellites to photograph those). I've been saying for a lot of years that this number is too small. American society doesn't love its CIA, for the same reason that it doesn't always love its cops. We too often regard them as a threat to ourselves rather than our enemies. Perhaps these incidents will make us rethink that. This is exactly what I was trying to get at. We already have an agency that has years of experience in tracking terrorist threats. Yet when the foreign threat extends it's tentacles onto our soil, suddenly it became a problem for the FBI. And now there are questions about the FBI's competency in this arena. It makes no sense. And now we are looking to establish a third arm to "juggle" like OMD states..... I suppose this is our government's idea of FINALLY putting together a method of having the right hand know what the left is doing. Why not simply put hand the ball off to the right agency and let them run with it?

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