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Article: Dramatic change recommended for US intelligence community
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- March 31, 2005
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Dramatic change recommended for US intelligence community
WASHINGTON, March 31 (Xinhua) -- A US presidential commission
assigned to look into the intelligence failures leading up to the
Iraq war recommended Thursday a series of dramatic changes to the
intelligence agencies intended to prevent future flaws.
The commission criticized the 15 intelligence agencies in the
United States for their "major intelligence failure" before the Iraq
war in its declassified version of the final report.
It said the intelligence community was "dead wrong in almost all
of its prewar judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction."
Also, it said the flaws "are still all too common" two years after
the ...