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To: NickSE who wrote (42535)	5/16/1998 9:40:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176388

OT+++OT++ Haven't you heard???? Well you know where CIA is getting their intelligence these days right???? New York Times. <VBG> At least that is what Senator.Kerry Or was it Sen.Moynihan was telling the senate the other day. From the Congressional records.Excerpt. See I wasn't kiddin' now was I ? ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. KERREY. Mr. President, I want to ask the Senator a question. First of all, I don't think there is anybody in the Senate who has been more consistently critical of the Central Intelligence Agency and has been more diligent in trying to change the way we classify documents. I find both of them to be a bit connected to his comments. One of the concerns I have in all this is that we look for a scapegoat. Now, one of the things that citizens need to understand is that increasingly we are getting our intelligence through open sources. That is good because when you get your information through open sources there is a debate. Is what somebody said true or not true--and you debate such things. I quite agree with what the Senator said earlier that for us to be going at the CIA right now because they didn't report this is a little ridiculous. All we have to do is read articles of John Burns over a half dozen months. Mr. MOYNIHAN. Of the New York Times. Mr. KERREY. If we head in the direction of finding a scapegoat here what we will miss is an opportunity to debate what our policy ought to be toward the largest democracy on Earth. In addition to the other things that the Senator said about India, this is also the largest democracy. A billion people live in India. Not an easy country to govern. They have a Hindu nationalist party that campaigned on a platform, and that platform was that nuclear testing would resume. They were not secretive about that. They did not operate in the shadows on that. They were upfront and they followed through. It seems to me we should blame ourselves for not paying attention to what is going on there and blame ourselves for not giving enough consideration or concern about the direction of the largest democracy on Earth. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair advises the Senator his 10 minutes has expired. Mr. MOYNIHAN. I ask for an additional 5 minutes. ------------------------------------------------------------------