Urging dramatic changes in the U.S. spy agencies, the commission called crucial intelligence judgments on Iraq "dead wrong" and said the flaws it found "are still all too common."

"Our collection agencies are often unable to gather intelligence on the very things we care the most about," the panel concluded in its unsparing report.

Though he initially opposed the panel's creation, President Bush promised immediate action at a news conference with retired Judge Laurence Silberman, a Republican, and former Democratic Sen. Charles Robb of Virginia, the commission's co-chairmen.



"To win the war on terror, we will correct what needs to be fixed," Bush said.

The commission offered 74 recommendations aimed at changing the structure and culture of the nation's 15 spy agencies. It called for more clarity in the powers of the newly created national intelligence director, an overhaul of national security efforts in the Justice Department and dozens of changes in intelligence collection and analysis.

"There is no more important intelligence mission than understanding the worst weapons that our enemies possess, and how they intend to use them against us," the commission said. "These are their deepest secrets, and unlocking them must be our highest priority."



The report, approved unanimously by the bipartisan nine-member panel, followed the failure of U.S. inspectors in Iraq to turn up any weapons of mass destruction. The existence of weapons stockpiles — detailed in dozens of intelligence reports before the March 2003 invasion — was the administration's leading argument for toppling Saddam Hussein.

The report painted a picture of a clumsy intelligence apparatus struggling to penetrate Iraqi operations and wrongly concluding that Saddam had weapons capable of causing catastrophic damage. Commissioners found intelligence collectors didn't provide enough information or were deceived by discredited sources and analysts relied on old assumptions about Saddam's intentions and overstated their conclusions.



Robb and Silberman said they found no evidence that senior Bush administration officials sought to change the prewar intelligence in Iraq. The report was silent on whether the administration manipulated the data for political purposes, as Democrats have contended, with commission members saying they were not empowered to examine that.





The commission found the spy community ill-prepared to penetrate adversarial nations and terror groups. It said agencies must do a better job of preventing attacks with biological agents and learning about the spread of nuclear weapons.

 "Across the board, the intelligence community knows disturbingly little about the nuclear programs of many of the world's most dangerous actors," the report said. "In some cases, it knows less now than it did five or ten years ago."

The commission saved for a classified report details about U.S. knowledge of weapons programs in Iran, North Korea, China and Russia.

But in the unclassified section, the report said, "We found that we have only limited access to critical information about several of these high-priority intelligence targets."

At home, the commission said, the FBI has not done enough to beef up intelligence operations. It warned of potentially ominous consequences from lack of cooperation between the CIA and FBI on terrorism cases that shift from overseas to American soil.

"The failure of CIA and FBI to cooperate and share information adequately on such cases could potentially create a gap in the coverage of these threats, like the one the Sept. 11 attack plotters were able to exploit," the commission said.

On al-Qaida, the commission found that the intelligence community was surprised by the terrorist network's advances in biological weapons, particularly a virulent strain of a disease that the report kept secret, identifying it only as "Agent X." Previously, U.S. officials have said they found evidence in Afghanistan that the group was working on anthrax weapons.

Reaction to the report from the intelligence community was muted. "We appreciate constructive criticism. We acknowledge mistakes when we make them," CIA Director Porter Goss said in a written statement.

Good to hear from you, systemfailure. Gotta comment on this statement.

'-intelligence community was surprised by the terrorist network's advances in biological weapons- '



Yeah, I bet they were 'surprised', the al CIAduh plus their DoD sponsors have been busy designing ever better ways of culling the population



Audio:050322 Creating the Next Pandemic, Part Two

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Audio:050329 Creating the Next Pandemic, Part Three -- Staging the Operation

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(can't find part one)

At taking aim, with Ralph Shoeman and Mya Shone

http://takingaim.info/shows/au

that last URL came out clipped

http://takingaim.info/shows/audio.html

is correct for the archive of lectures which sight main stream news as references.

hey sheepdog,,,

yeah, i m on and off this website...focusing mainly on distribution of flyers etc and of course my music....

Looks like this whole facade is going to collapse any day now........

They better start lookin to reenact republican reichstag part 2...........

trying to focus on the senior citizen population by flyering and engaging them to protest their rights ...explaining their rights , the bush conspiracy, and why they need to mobilize now...........

Most are anti war,,, and are starting to see through the veil of bush bullshit......

All we need now is to get daveman and Diogenes and we can have a bar-b-que.

I can't say one way or other about Radio4Houston, but the dymoronic duo of TakingAim really takes the Doorrrrrrrrr prize. Even real socialists are smarter than that, barely.

Thanks for offering your empty opinion. As always.

explain your comment a little further.

Isn't it obvious, if you have ever listened to takingaim, how fucked they are? I have only listened to a couple of their broadcasts, and that is ENUFF!!

Thanks for again offering another M-T , if more elaborate personal opinion.

For further information:

I should include this audio concerning this creature Goss. And his relationship with Bio terrorism in Cuba, soon to come to a city near you.



040824 Killers Then and Now: Porter Goss and the CIA

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Take us all back to the innocent 50s, and a little of the 60s, the world we wished for our nayBORES; as that silly transcipt of yours illustrates, plus the necessary figments of CIA subterfuge, evil capitalists--WAIT!!, that's MY alley, JEWsus fucking CHRIST--and the mostly mewly mouthed doorrrrrrknobbbbed announcers.

Sorry but i forgot the dork announcers names, but i strongly suspect, who cares.

who cares?

Obviously, you do.

Reading your posts one would believe that you still have nothing to contribute aside from, as reader points out, your opinion. No matter the rancor of your evaluation, it has nothing to back it up, as the phrase goes.

Glad to see your non interest is so strongly held. Ta. :>)

I didn't mean to vomit on your transcriptions of takingaim, but i did. That's that.

And I still hold strong swayings against the commentators, perhaps youve noticed? or is this a device for you and reader to rope an unsuspecting jackass into the korrall of konspiracies?

...rope any jackasses.

We have you.

you know you don't, so why bother?

Same as polits--YOU owe me, now bend over--

btw, will the redsox repeat, or the dreaded nyyankees or the cards?

He's punchy, stop hitting him. You can tell by the incoherence of his posts. If this was a sparring match I'd call it off before his brain injuries are permanent.

How on earth could you 'read' audio files and why did you get up so early to produce these moronic posts? No life, eh? Poor thing.

It's when you think that BA just couldn't get any more stupid, he surprises you yet again with unreached boundries.

the cia created global warming to distract the left from protesting wars.

The CIA created the al CIAduh to distract the left, right and majority from the fact that they were created to prevent 'another Pearl Harbor'. That was money well spent, I tell you.

The morons on the left are self distracting.

The CIA need only sit back and watch.

in imc speak you mean 911, right?

Lets pretend for a minute that 911 never happened,..just try,ok?

N.A. would still be a beehive of carefree, lefty, encroaching socialism, irresponsible elitism, and the rest of all that commie crap that the left spews out, ..still there? And in 2005 GeorgeBush is off the map and unable to promote democracy in the ME..then what?

I like the way I see you trained poodles run into the razor wire of your own lies.

I know most readers are convinced, all right; thank you.