Bush is right about one thing. The new office of intelligence should not be in the White House. It is the congress that needs a new intelligence level. Given that partisanship is hard to get over, the solution should be to have a bicameral authority responsible to the congress. This office would then be responsible for coordinating the supervision of intelligence with the CIA Director.
Does this seem too unwieldy? What is the alternative to having two ways of looking at evidence?
The reality is that intelligence information may have been adequate and it was the intelligence in how you look at it that counts. Acting on the advice of intelligence or commissions is next in importance and it seems we have a long way to go in agreeing on that.
Either way the election in November should not be the end of it and we will be lucky if it is really a beginning.
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