TCS: Intel Reform 2.0
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James Joyner | Friday, August 27, 2004 |
My latest piece at Tech Central Station, “Intel Reform 2.0,” is now up. It argues for a go-slow approach to implementing the 9/11 Commission recommendations and provides some historical contrasts with the last such effort:
The current system, which stood the nation in good stead for over half a century, was the product of slow deliberations that was done largely out of the heat of the public spotlight, let alone the closing days of a bitter presidential campaign. The National Security Act of 1947, which created the CIA, National Security Council, and what would become the Department of Defense, took years to craft and was based on input from numerous commission reports, congressional hearings, and presidential leadership.
Of course, that was before the 24/7 news cycle.
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.
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General Odom said it best:'" No organizational design will compensate for incompetent incumbents, but some designs prevent competent incumbents from performing well. The 9/11 commission's design for a new national intelligence director (NID) is sure to accomplish the latter." My comment on the question is that commanders attitudesare more important.
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