[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Bush administration considers a domestic spy agency

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61549-2002Nov15.html

    Bush Aides Consider Domestic Spy Agency

    By Dana Priest and Dan Eggen
    Washington Post Staff Writers
    Saturday, November 16, 2002; Page A01

    President Bush's top national security advisers have begun
    discussing the creation of a new, domestic intelligence agency
    that would take over responsibility for counterterrorism spying
    and analysis from the FBI, according to U.S. government officials
    and intelligence experts.

    The high-level debate reflects a widespread concern that the FBI
    has been unable to transform itself from a law enforcement agency
    into an intelligence-gathering unit able to detect and thwart
    terrorist plans in the United States. The FBI has admitted it has
    not yet completed the cultural sea change necessary to turn its
    agents into spies, but the creation of a new agency is firmly
    opposed by FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, who has said he
    believes the bureau can do the job.

    On Veterans Day, top national security officials gathered for two
    hours to discuss the issue in a meeting chaired by national
    security adviser Condoleezza Rice. White House Chief of Staff
    Andrew H. Card Jr., Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, CIA
    Director George J. Tenet, Attorney General John D. Ashcroft,
    Mueller and six others attended.

    [...]




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