BAD PRECEDENT FOR INTEL PANEL

So the President’s set­ting up a panel to look for screw-​​ups in the country’s intel­li­gence agen­cies. This will amount to exactly zero, if recent his­tory is any guide.
Right after he got into office, Bush ordered a com­pre­hen­sive review of the CIA and related ser­vices. But, accord­ing to Secrecy News, he never both­ered to imple­ment any of the find­ings from that review, lead by Gen. Brent Scowcroft. Even after the mas­sive intel­li­gence fail­ure of 9/​11, Bush sat on his hands, with Congress “implor[ing]” him in 2002 to make changes. None came.
Check Josh Marshall’s site for a whole bunch more.

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