Panel endorses domestic intel agency
An influential homeland security panel will recommend the creation of a domestic intelligence agency to collect and analyze information about terrorist threats within the United States.
...Asked if his commission felt the FBI wasn't up to the job, Gilmore said, "Yes. That is a fair conclusion."...more [CNN]
Repeat after me...WE DO NOT NEED ANOTHER INTERNAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. If the FBI has a problem then fix it! It is their job and it should be their job. Perhaps a new wing of the FBI. We could call it the CTU (Counter Terrorism Unit), and give Kiefer Sutherland a job.
All kidding aside, this is a really bad idea. It is just one more example of the dangers of this administration and its dual desire for secrecy and a desire for information. We already have the FBI and simply need to fix the problems that caused them to drop the ball on 9/11, rather then create one more agency.
So far for a guy who came in as a fiscal conservative, I have to say that Bush is batting pretty poorly. He's created one huge new agency for Homeland Security, returned us to deficit spending, handed out tax breaks to the rich, spent months trying to find a way to get us into a war this country really doesn't want, and now wants to create an agency who's job will be to spy on Americans! Of course there is the matter of convicted felon Poindexter's database designed to track and collect information on Americans. I wonder what's next...Secret Tribunals? Oh right; I forgot, we already have those thanks to this administration...mj
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