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 Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers  Kean Says 9-11 Panel Wants to Release At Least Four More Reports, With Classified Documents Sun Jul 25 2004 10:16:28 ET New York �Tom Kean, chairman of the 9/11 panel, tells TIME the panel hopes to release at least four more staff-written reports, some of which contain classified documents, on such topics as aviation and border security and terrorist financing. �Interested parties may have to sue the government� to see them, according to TIME. U.S. officials tell TIME that reports from agents and �code talk� picked up from extremists� e-mail point to a possible al-Qaeda attack before the Nov. 2 election. Says a CIA official, �We have some fairly specific information that al-Qaeda wants to come after us.� Kean reiterated the sense of foreboding: �An attack of even greater magnitude is possible and even probable,� he said. �We don�t have the luxury of TIME.� TIME also reports President Bush has asked Chief of Staff Andrew Card to head a working group to look at how best to assess and implement 9/11 Commission Report recommendations. After Democratic challenger John Kerry announced he would appoint a new cabinet-level National Intelligence Director (NID) �when I�m President,� Bush aides hinted the President too may back the idea of a new intelligence czar. �Nothing �s off the table,� a senior White House official tells TIME. �And it�s definitely not off the table before the election.� �While the advent of an NID would recast the intelligence community�s pecking order, it could also make things worse,� writes TIME World editor Romesh Ratnesar. Says John Hamre, Deputy Secretary of Defense on the Clinton Administration, �If you have one guy for whom everyone works, then you�re going to start getting a homogenous view.� Ratnesar adds, �the 9/11 panel offers few specific suggestions for how the U.S. and its allies can improve in the most critical area of all: getting actionable human intelligence on al-Qaeda and its attack plans by infiltrating terrorist networks.� Says Hamre: �All these reorganizing efforts are kind of rearranging the boxes of the people that supply intelligence, when we really need to be talking about how we demand better-quality intelligence across the board.� |
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