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To: NickSE who wrote (43610)	5/11/2004 12:50:51 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

Frisbees and soccer balls also seem to do the trick...;o) I feel like I am stepping on Santa Claus when I say this. These type of activities are fine, but peripheral. Holding them up to show we are solving Iraq's problems is a bit much.

To: NickSE who wrote (43610)	5/11/2004 12:55:55 PM
From: NickSE	Respond to of 793843

The major cuts that took place in our military and intelligence services over the past decade are what caused us to miss 911 and are now causing us trouble in Iraq. Caution and Years of Budget Cuts Are Seen to Limit C.I.A. by Douglas Jehl nytimes.com WASHINGTON, May 10 - Even now, 32 months after the Sept. 11 attacks, America's clandestine intelligence service has fewer than 1,100 case officers posted overseas, fewer than the number of F.B.I. agents assigned to the New York City field office alone, government officials say. Since George J. Tenet took charge of the Central Intelligence Agency seven years ago, rebuilding that service has been his top priority. This year, more new case officers will graduate from a year-long course at Camp Peary in Virginia than in any year since the Vietnam War. They are the products of aggressive new recruiting aimed in particular at speakers of Arabic and others capable of operating in the Middle East and South Asia. But it will be an additional five years, Mr. Tenet and others have warned, before the rebuilding is complete and the United States has the network it needs to adequately confront a global threat posed by terrorist groups and hostile foreign governments. In an interview on April 30, James L. Pavitt, who as the C.I.A.'s deputy director for operations oversees the clandestine service, said he still needed 30 to 35 percent more people, including officers based overseas and in the United States, supervisors and support workers. "I need hundreds and hundreds, thousands," Mr. Pavitt said. At a time when the United States is fighting a war on terrorism and a war in Iraq, he said, "we are running hard to get the resources we need." [cont'd.....]