By Matt Hurley for the TIB Network:
Senate Intelligence Committee Republicans proposed removing the nation's largest intelligence gathering operations from the CIA and the Pentagon and putting them directly under a new national intelligence director.
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., the committee chairman, unveiled on Sunday the most sweeping intelligence reorganization proposal offered by anyone since the Sept. ll commission called for major changes. In an appearance on CBS' "Face the Nation," Roberts acknowledged that full details had yet to be shared with either the White House or with Senate Democrats.
"We didn't pay attention to turf or agencies or boxes" but rather to "what are the national security threats that face this country today," Roberts said of the bill endorsed by eight GOP members of the intelligence committee. "I'm trying to build a consensus around something that's very different and very bold."
MI-5/MI-6 type organization structure makes MUCH more sense than what we currently have but isn't the issue really the domestic intelligence service? I think so. I'm more concerned with removing the FBI's intelligence powers and moving that to the NID than I am interested in decapitating the CIA...
John Kerry Delenda Est!
