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Greater Accountability Needed in Intelligence Community, U.S. Senator Says
The head of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday accused the U.S. intelligence community of being “in denial” over its failure to prevent the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and its misjudgment of Iraq’s prewar WMD efforts, according to the Los Angeles Times (see GSN, April 22). Lawmakers are concerned over the fact that no intelligence personnel have “been disciplined, let alone fired,” for various information-gathering failures over the past three years, committee Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) said during a speech at Kansas State University. “We have found serious failures to share information before 9/11 and in the prewar work on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Where is the accountability?” he said. One factor, according to Roberts, might be “an institutional inability to recognize or admit there are problems. Simply put, the (intelligence) community is in denial over the full extent of the shortcomings of its work on Iraq and 9/11.” Roberts said he does not believe U.S. inspectors will find weapons of mass destruction stockpiles in Iraq. A CIA spokesman yesterday refused to comment on Roberts’ criticisms (Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times, May 4).
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