Some intriguing new details of U.S. intelligence policy were disclosed in two reports on the implementation of the Intelligence Reform Act of 2004 that were issued yesterday by the House Intelligence Committee and by the Director of National Intelligence.
Beyond broad conclusions on the status of intelligence reform, each report voiced numerous passing observations of interest, both favorable and critical.
The report of the House Intelligence Committee noted the following, for example:
"Many of the major acquisition programs at the National Reconnaissance Office, the National Security Agency, and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency have cost taxpayers billions of dollars in cost overruns and schedule delays." (p. 14)
"The National Intelligence Council is... making more use of external experts from academia and think tanks to prepare certain parts of a National Intelligence Estimate." (p. 16)
"The National Counterterrorism Center ... advised that out of the universe of information available on terrorist targets, the National Counterterrorism Center, the CIA's Counterterrorism Center and the Defense Intelligence Agency's Joint Intelligence Task Force - Counterterrorism were all analyzing approximately the same ten percent." (p. 17)
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Posted by Stubbornson at July 30, 2006 11:36 AM