Another Bush Intelligence Failure = by Robert Parry

[L. Coyote]

Another Bush Intelligence Failure
By Robert Parry - April 6, 2009 - http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/040609.html


Add to the list of President George W. Bush’s failures his inability to straighten out what he regarded as one of the top national security needs, a more effective U.S. intelligence community.

Despite upping the U.S. intelligence budget to $45 billion from about $30 billion – and signing legislation in 2005 meant to end “turf” battles – Bush left behind an intelligence community suffering from poor communications among agencies and a flawed management structure, according to an inspector general’s report finished in November and released last week.

Instead of creating a streamlined and efficient intelligence community, the changes that Bush oversaw appear simply to have added a new layer of bureaucracy – the Director of National Intelligence – on top of the earlier system whose shortcomings contributed to intelligence failures around the 9/11 attacks and the bogus assessments on Iraq’s WMD stockpiles.

The findings of the DNI’s inspector general also undercut former Vice President Dick Cheney’s assertions that the Bush administration made great strides in keeping the country safe ....

[NC_Nurse]

1. Everything he touched turned to shit. No surprise there.

[stillcool]

2. A phrase I would like to see go in the dust bin

of history "Intelligence Failure". Far from it.

[L. Coyote]

3. Yeah. Bank robbers getting caught, that's intelligence failure! Forgettng to study

for a test, that's intelligence failure!

To better turn the phrase: Bush was a failure lacking intelligence.
That's a phrase I'd like to see go in the moran bin. :rofl:

Bush also is a failure who may go to the felon bin.
Who knew Torturer was a job to be taken seriously?

[gratuitous]

4. An intelligence failure only if the results weren't what he wanted

And I'm unpersuaded that Chimpy didn't get exactly what he wanted out of his "failed" intelligence.