Abstract

Senator and presidential contender John Kerry has loudly and critically clanged the intelligence-reform bell in President Bush's ears. Recently, Mr. Kerry proposed great expansion of the director of central intelligence's (DCI) authority over the National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. But true reform must first come with the DCI's emancipation from the White House through providing a 10-year term as a presidential appointee.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-20-2004

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Copyright © 2004 The Washington Times, LLC. This article first appeared in The Washington Times (2004), 1-2.

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