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Presidential report is critical of intelligence agencies Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nation/11228342.htm http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nation/11228342.htm Posted on Fri, Mar. 25, 2005 Report is critical of intel agencies The Associated Press WASHINGTON - A presidential commission investigating weapons of mass destruction is highly critical of U.S. intelligence agencies' performance on Iran, North Korea and Libya and attempts to lay out what went wrong on Iraq, according to individuals familiar with the findings. None of the 15 agencies is expected to be singled out as doing an exemplary job of collecting or assessing intelligence on biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. The report from the nine-member panel led by Republican Laurence Silberman and Democrat Charles Robb is expected next week. "I don't get the impression that one [agency] is better than the other," said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a commission member. The report comes at a critical time for the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and others charged with collecting, protecting and analyzing secrets. They all face the prospect of sweeping changes from the intelligence bill passed in December, including the appointment of a national intelligence director. President Bush's nominee, John Negroponte, has a Senate confirmation hearing next month. The new director takes over a sprawling bureaucracy, beset by infighting and finger-pointing following the 9-11 terrorist attacks and the botched prewar intelligence on the threat from Iraq. The commission's recommendations will largely fall to him to implement. Individuals familiar with the report, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the commission devoted significant time to dissecting what went wrong on the Iraq intelligence. The commission, for instance, has reconsidered the issue of aluminum tubes. A National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq in October 2002 said that most intelligence agencies believed that Iraq's "aggressive pursuit" of high-strength aluminum tubes provided "compelling evidence" that Saddam Hussein's regime was reconstituting its uranium enrichment effort and nuclear program. In its report last summer, the Senate Intelligence Committee found that the Energy Department was more accurate in its assessment that Iraq sought the tubes for a conventional rocket program, not a nuclear program. The commission also closely examined U.S. capability to understand the weapons programs of Libya, North Korea and Iran. Libya has agreed to relinquish its efforts to develop such weapons of mass destruction and dismantle those it has. Iran and North Korea, however, remain significant hot spots for the United States. Intelligence operatives and analysts are not expected to get glowing marks on their abilities there. Based on Bush's direction, the commission looked at the merits of creating a new intelligence center devoted to tracking illicit weapons proliferation, as written in the intelligence overhaul law passed in December. The panel also consulted lawmakers on congressional oversight and considered how the president receives intelligence, including his daily briefings. Final drafts of the commission's report are being circulated among the intelligence agencies for declassification. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ONLINE: www.wmd.gov

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