Posted on 09/15/2004 9:42:53 AM PDT by SmithPatterson
Kissinger Opposes U.S. Intel Czar, Is 'Optimistic' About Mideast Peace
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
By David S. Hirschman
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (search) said Monday he was "uneasy" about uniting all of the country's intelligence operations under a single chief, he worried about the possibility of a nuclear Iran and he's "optimistic" the disputed security fence in Israel might eventually result in a negotiated solution to the Middle East conflict.
Speaking at a luncheon hosted by the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation in Manhattan, Kissinger, who served as secretary of state under presidents Richard Nixon (search) and Gerald Ford (search), touched on several major foreign policy issues currently affecting the U.S.
Kissinger said that while he believed the 9/11 commission had done a great public service, he did not agree with all of the commission's recommendations and he did not think that the country should act on the recommendations before the November presidential election. Particularly, he worried that by creating a single intelligence chief, dissenting views in the intelligence community would be stifled.
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I am against the creation of a new intel "czar" position. We already have such a position, it is the Director of Central Intelligence. If you don't like the job he's doing, replace him, don't just give him a new boss.
The intel failures of the nineties were not a result of not enough insulation between the president and the intel specialists, we didn't fail for lack of enough layers of bureaucracy, we didn't fail because of too many competing sources of information. Quite the contrary. We need competing voices, and the president needs to hear those voices. Creating another filter is precisely the wrong thing to do.
And enough with this "czar" business (drug czar, intelligence czar...)! Czars = unaccountable, autocratic tyrants. Words mean something -- we should NOT accept such language in the US government.
Has Kissinger turned into a Lich yet? I'm amazed. The man never stops.
WHO cares what "Kissinger" thinks?????
Kissinger is right.......IT'S THE WALL, STUPID!
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