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Article: Reform Overdue for Central Intelligence; CIA bosses claim they are trying to shake things up, but the agency remains reluctant to admit the significance of its failures or accept that major reforms are needed.(THE NATION)
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- Insight on the News
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- April 13, 2004
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Byline: Jamie Dettmer, INSIGHT
George Tenet has been on the offensive all winter, defending the CIA's recent record as more details emerge of his agency's failures from overstating Saddam Hussein's weapons-of-mass-destruction programs to not fully appreciating the extent of the work undertaken by Libya and Iran to develop nuclear weapons. In speeches and in congressional testimony, the U.S. Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) has sought cautiously to shift blame elsewhere, suggesting that high administration officials may have ignored equivocations in intelligence reports concerning Iraq and elected to highlight worst-case scenarios. The New York Times' ...