WaPo: FBI Fails to Transform Itself, Panel Says

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Former Sept. 11 Commission 'Taken Aback' by Personnel, Technology Problems

By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 7, 2005; Page A04

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 terror 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 S. 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 S. Mueller III and other officials had assured the commission that 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 after the release of its best-selling report last year but has reorganized as a private nonprofit group, the 9/11 Public Discourse Project.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/06/AR2005060600964.html

[halobeam]

1. Will it be beneficial to the administration if the FBI

is labeled a big fat failure.. hence then, blamed for everything? Let's see...new terror attack, BAD FBI...see? hmmm I hate being so suspicious

[DeepModem Mom]

2. kick