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To: KLP who wrote (130056)	4/25/2004 2:20:27 PM
From: Sig	Respond to of 281500

Re Clarke statements. <<He is probably right about that....he had been a careerist for more than 30 years.....>>> I was a Being careerest for many years-and tend to agree with his statements that changes are needed. The talent is there-in the intelligence agencies.Much can be done at higher levels to improve their performance. Team assignments can do the job. For which the director must know the critical areas and willing to be a shaker and mover to get the job done. In the 911 case he already knew that terrorists were a big threat, but not that it was such a critical situation as to reduce all other efforts or rock the boat by making major reassignments. In a big corporation or government entity,the inertia resulting from turf protection, job security,and career enhancement are an impediment to getting the best people assigned to the teams in a timely manner. I have to guess that the Boeing way would be to assign teams to investigate the various threats. 1. Embassy and overseas facilities 2. Airlines and trains 3. Production facilities. 4. Major cities 5. Military or nuclear facilities etc. Teams to be separated from the routine work but with access to incoming threats from every agency. (a data base) And even if this had been the case, it is easy to see the problems in deciding which was the most imminent threat which would call for action. Hindsight says it should have been the airlines or cities,but past experience indicated it was the embassies or overseas installations. And if OBL had attacked a train in Chicago instead of buildings in NYC, todays discussions would follow a different course but our intelligence agencies would still get the blame. Sig@whoisnext.com