WASHINGTON — The FBI has stumbled badly in its attempts to remake itself since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and is plagued by high turnover, poor training and its continued inability to build a modern computer system, according to a panel convened yesterday by the members of the commission that investigated the terrorist strikes.
The problems are so acute that members of the influential commission may want to reconsider whether the United States needs a separate agency to handle domestic intelligence, one Democratic member said.
Jamie Gorelick, a former deputy attorney general, said the commission was "taken aback" by the extent of FBI failures documented in several recent reports, including the FBI's scrapping of an expensive computer upgrade and its continued difficulty hiring qualified intelligence analysts. FBI Director Robert Mueller and other officials had assured the commission such problems were being addressed, commission officials said.
The remarks came during the first in a series of hearings to be held this summer by former members of the Sept. 11 commission, which was officially disbanded last year but which has reorganized as a private group.
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Can the odious Jersey Girls be far behind with their pronouncements!
I watched the 'commission meeting' all last night as I drifted in and out of sleep. Jamie looks like a clever little girl who has put on her mommie's clothes and invited her best friends for tea to play 'grown-up'. Let it go Jamie you are not gonna be Attorney General in Hilly's 'shadow govenment. I hope my taxes aren't paying for this farce. I wonder who is? Probably Sore-oss.