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| Sun, 5 Nov 2006 12:00:00 EST Remaking U.S. Intelligence - Part IV: The Computers |
| Perhaps the most transformational work the DNI staff is doing involves the effort to retool the creaky electronic infrastructure of the intelligence community. The effort is aimed at essentially rewiring all the community's separate and unique computerized networks, so that systems can talk to systems and analysts to analysts. The task is huge: Roughly a third of the intelligence community's 100,000-strong workforce is involved in providing information technology support of some kind, officials say; that workforce is bigger than the it departments of even the nation's largest corporations. All the computer systems must be secure, handling everything from the CIA's most sensitive overseas cables to the masses of digital imagery and electronic intercepts from satellites. There are literally thousands of individual systems, most of them developed largely for specific tasks over the past 30 years. The result is a dysfunctional web of unwieldy, often duplicative networks, with different rules for access to files, databases, E-mail, and the Internet. |
| Sun, 5 Nov 2006 12:00:00 EST Remaking U.S. Intelligence - Part I: Introduction |
| Its backers dubbed it the "big idea." CIA Director Michael Hayden says it was "pass/fail" for the nation's espionage agencies. For years, America's allies had complained about the one-way flow of information with U.S. intelligence. Now, things were going to be different, according to the nation's first director of national intelligence. Founded in April 2005, the DNI was to be the change agent in the Washington intelligence game, the outfit that would fix the spy agencies caught flat-footed by the 9/11 attacks and embarrassed by their failure to accurately diagnose the weapons threat from Saddam Hussein's Iraq. |
| Sun, 5 Nov 2006 12:00:00 EST Remaking U.S. Intelligence - Part III: The Spies |
| One constant struggle is over how to deploy the community's precious "collection" assets. Satellites can cover only limited areas. An even scarcer resource is HUMINT, or human intelligence—spies. It has been difficult to increase the number of CIA case officers much beyond about 1,200, sources say. "The challenge, of course, is that the resources that you have in today's world are heavily tilted at Iraq, Afghanistan, and the war on terrorism," says the DNI's Graham. When war broke out between Israel and the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon this summer, for instance, DNI officials worried over whether they needed to shift already scarce human spies and satellites to cover the conflict. |
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| Sun, 05 Nov 2006 20:02:30 EST Iraqis react with joy, anger |
| The death sentence pronounced against former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is provoking a mixed reaction in Iraq. He and two other defendants were found guilty for their roles in a bloody 1982 crackdown in the Shiite town of Dujail, Iraq.
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| Sun, 05 Nov 2006 20:55:04 EST Ousted pastor admits 'sexual problem' |
| The Rev. Ted Haggard was fired as pastor of the Colorado church he founded in his basement more than 20 years ago, after an independent board ruled he had committed "sexually immoral conduct."
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