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05-WMD-01 on Mar 31, 2005

After a thorough review, the Commission found no indication that the Intelligence Community distorted the evidence regarding Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. What the intelligence professionals told you about Saddam Hussein's programs was what they believed. They were simply wrong.

Here, we focus on recommendations that we believe only you can effect if you choose to implement them:
• Give the Director of National Intelligence powers--and backing--to match his responsibilities.
• Bring the FBI all the way into the Intelligence Community. Pull all of the FBI's intelligence capabilities into one place and subject them to the coordinating authority of the DNI.
• Demand more of the Intelligence Community. The Intelligence Community needs to be pushed.
• Rethink the President's Daily Brief. The daily intelligence briefings given to you before the Iraq war were flawed. Through attention-grabbing headlines and repetition of questionable data, these briefings overstated the case that Iraq was rebuilding its WMD programs. So far, despite some successes, our Intelligence Community has not been agile and innovative enough to provide the information that the nation needs. Other commissions and observers have said the same. We should not wait for another commission or another Administration to force widespread change in the Intelligence Community.

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  • Topic: Government Reform
  • Headline: Rethink flawed Presidential daily intelligence briefings
    
    
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  Democrats participating in 05-WMD-01
  Charles Robb	s1s	VA Democratic Senator (Former)

  
  
  

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  John McCain	s1s	AZ Republican Sr Senator

  
  
  

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  Democrats: 1 Republicans: 1 Independents: 0