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アメリカの最有力紙、ニューヨークタイムズのヘッドライン記事である。
実に、実に、何とも、こすからい、持って回った表現だが、要するに、イラクの化学兵器保有と核兵器開発の情報が間違っていたから、アメリカの情報機関の組織変革が行われたのである。
この飛んでもない間違いを根拠にして、ボカスカ、猛爆撃、何万人も殺したのである。
本来ならば、まず、この重大な間違いを認め、総辞職、責任者は処分し、イラクに謝るのが、まともな対応である。
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/29/politics/29intel.html?th&emc=th
July 29, 2005
Top Spy's No. 2 Tells of Changes to Avoid Error
By DOUGLAS JEHL
WASHINGTON, July 28 - John D. Negroponte, the new director of national intelligence, has imposed strict safeguards intended to ensure that the government's National Intelligence Estimates are based on credible information instead of the kinds of unsubstantiated claims that were the basis for prewar intelligence on Iraq, his top deputy said Thursday.
The deputy, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, made clear that the change should be seen as a response to the intelligence failures on Iraq, most notably the National Intelligence Estimate of October 2002 that asserted that the Iraqis had chemical and biological weapons and were rebuilding their nuclear program. Those assertions were proved wrong, and a presidential commission said in March that the fault lay in part with failures by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency and others to validate the reliability of their sources and to share their doubts with others.
General Hayden, testifying before a House Intelligence subcommittee, said the change was intended to give new, critical scrutiny to both human and technical intelligence, including reports from agents, satellite photographs and intercepted communications. Among the focuses, he said, will be "who said what, why, and why do we think this is true?"
National Intelligence Estimates are periodic classified reports, prepared by the intelligence community for the president and other national leaders, that are intended to identify trends of significance to national security. General Hayden acknowledged Thursday that the new precautions were likely to result in estimates that proved much less definitive than in the past. But he said he and Mr. Negroponte would embrace "a higher tolerance for ambiguity" than had been accepted and would encourage analysts to be forthright about what they did not know.
General Hayden described the change as "a major breakthrough" that would significantly widen the circle of senior intelligence officials required to be given detailed knowledge about other agencies' sources. In the past, 15 spy chiefs who make up the National Intelligence Board and have final word on what the estimates say have been expected to endorse them with only limited knowledge about other agencies' sources.
Under Mr. Negroponte, General Hayden said, no National Intelligence Estimate will be approved until each agency whose sources are being used as a basis for the findings articulates to all others its "confidence in the source." One intelligence official said this precaution was adopted in early May. Other government officials said the standard had already been applied, to a recent highly classified intelligence report on Iran, producing findings that the officials described as infused with considerable uncertainty about the status of Iran's nuclear weapons program.
General Hayden's testimony to the subcommittee was the first given to Congress by a member of Mr. Negroponte's team since his office was established 90 days ago. The creation of that office was the most significant overhaul of the American intelligence apparatus in half a century, and General Hayden said he believed that it had left the agencies equipped to act with more agility and speed to combat terrorism and other national security threats.
The Central Intelligence Agency and other agencies had already imposed changes of their own in response to intelligence failures related to Iraq, with the C.I.A. requiring in particular that its Directorate of Operations share more information with intelligence analysts. And at a briefing this month, senior intelligence officials who report to Mr. Negroponte outlined other changes intended to promote more transparency about intelligence sources.
But the change described by General Hayden extends that approach to the National Intelligence Board, the high-level interagency group, whose reviews of intelligence estimates have not always been rigorous. For example, General Hayden acknowledged, as a member of that body in 2002 he voted in favor of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq. But he based his judgment, he said, on detailed knowledge only about the communications intelligence gathered by the National Security Agency, which he then headed.
Under the old system, General Hayden said, he was neither expected nor permitted to learn more about the human sources from the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency and satellite photographs from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency on which many judgments were based.
The general was warmly received by the House panel, which included Representatives Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the Intelligence Committee's chairman, and Jane Harman of California, its top Democrat. Both mentioned the recent terror attacks in London and in Sharm el Sheik, Egypt, and Ms. Harman asked General Hayden to reassure the panel that the intelligence reorganization had left the government better equipped than before Sept. 11, 2001, to avert a similar attack on the United States.
General Hayden said the terms of the law that created Mr. Negroponte's post would allow intelligence agencies to respond more swiftly and with more agility to threats than in the past, when there was a looser structure headed by the director of central intelligence.
"If we step up to that," he said, "we get more speed and more direct action."
Ms. Harman replied sharply, "You must step up to that!"
Addressing General Hayden later, she said: "The times are dangerous. The terrorists are here. Most of us believe that an attack could occur at any time."
"Keep us safe," she added.
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