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sisyphusshruggedSen. Roberts of the Senate Intelligence Committee caused a splash yesterday by suggesting on one of the Sunday news shows that the CIA be broken up for parts.
Have you noticed that the current crop of Republicans in Washington tend to blame their troubles on things associated with the senior President Bush? But I digress...
Sen. Roberts is employing an unusual strategy to "build a consensus" on his proposed reforms. He's refusing to tell anyone outside the Senate Republican caucus exactly what they are.
You have to admire a man with the uncanny instincts to have kept the details of such an enormous change in the way government works within such a small group of people without paying attention to turf.
Have you noticed that the current crop of Republicans in Washington tend to blame their troubles on things associated with the senior President Bush? But I digress...
Sen. Roberts is employing an unusual strategy to "build a consensus" on his proposed reforms. He's refusing to tell anyone outside the Senate Republican caucus exactly what they are.
Roberts offered the most sweeping reorganization proposal by anyone since the commission that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks called for major changes. He acknowledged that details had yet to be shared with the White House or Senate Democrats.
“We didn’t pay attention to turf or agencies or boxes” but rather to “what are the national security threats that face this country today,” Roberts said of the proposals supported by eight Republicans on the intelligence committee. “I’m trying to build a consensus around something that’s very different and very bold.”
You have to admire a man with the uncanny instincts to have kept the details of such an enormous change in the way government works within such a small group of people without paying attention to turf.
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Date: 2004-08-23 11:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-23 11:46 am (UTC)snort.
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Date: 2004-08-23 08:42 pm (UTC)Roberts must think CIA reform is like Medicare prescription benefits, unworthy of involving those dirty Dems. And if his unilateral reformation is anything like the rousing success of the Medicare scheme, then intelligence failures would be a distant memory (you know, like competent government and checks and balances).
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