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To: KLP who wrote (46569)	9/24/2002 12:34:33 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

One does wonder about both agencies You expect any Government operation to be inefficient, KLP, and you design that in when you fund it. The rule of thumb I have always heard is three times the input to get the same output as with a private operation. The problem is, with everything but Intelligence, you can measure output. With Intelligence, you can't. All you can do is measure the disaster when they fail, and find you are unable to pull it apart to correct the problem. The people in the FBI who were responsible for the disasters at Waco and Ruby Ridge were not disciplined. They ended up getting promoted. I am sure the same thing is happening now to the people who dropped the ball at 9/11. And even if we fired the people responsible for these disasters, if we could identify them, it would do no good. The system would find and put in there place people who would make the same errors in the future. It is a structural failure that defies fixing.