Hearing into Iraq intelligence gathering failings — Transcript

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1. 0:06the strategic intelligence ends and the
2. 0:09tactical intelligence actually began
3. 0:12iraq was an overwhelming systemic
4. 0:15failure of the central intelligence
5. 0:17agency until this is taken on board and
6. 0:20people and organizations are held
7. 0:22responsible for this failure i have real
8. 0:25difficulty seeing how a national
9. 0:27intelligence director can correct these
10. 0:29failings indeed i would argue that
11. 0:32unless the newly appointed director of
12. 0:36central intelligence takes on as his
13. 0:38first responsibility correcting the
14. 0:40obvious failures that you have so
15. 0:43thoroughly documented
16. 0:45that the national intelligence director
17. 0:47has no hope of success past 57 years
18. 0:50despite the great efforts of this
19. 0:51committee and more than 40 different
20. 0:53studies of the intelligence community
21. 0:55recommending reform
22. 0:56no president and no congress has
23. 0:59succeeded in overhauling our
24. 1:00intelligence system
25. 1:02history's lesson is to make the most of
26. 1:04reform opportunities when they arise
27. 1:07because they do not arise often and they
28. 1:09do not last long
29. 1:11we have one of those rare windows of
30. 1:13opportunity now
31. 1:15and if the past is any guide there will
32. 1:17not be another chance for a generation
33. 1:20these realities mean
34. 1:22that reforms should be sweeping because
35. 1:24they will be lasting into these very
36. 1:26difficult issues
37. 1:28so today we welcome
38. 1:30dr amy ziegart dr david k
39. 1:33and general charles boyd
40. 1:36all have extensive background in
41. 1:38national security and intelligence
42. 1:40issues
43. 1:41all bring different failure of the cia
44. 1:44in iraq was so persuasive and indicative
45. 1:48of large-scale failures and analytical
46. 1:51and collection tradecraft that it is a
47. 1:53full-time job repairing that agency and
48. 1:56it must be a priority it is the crown
49. 1:58analytical jewel of our system so i
50. 2:01actually think that right now for better
51. 2:04or worse as agnostic as i am that in
52. 2:06fact we need to create an nid
53. 2:10senator hagel
54. 2:12mr chairman thank you i
55. 2:14wish to also thank our three witnesses
56. 2:18we are in a window of opportunity that
57. 2:21should not be squandered
58. 2:23rarely does the president and the entire
59. 2:25congress focus on a single issue with
60. 2:27such intensity
61. 2:29if the elected officials
62. 2:32of the executive and legislative
63. 2:33branches of government
64. 2:35are once again
65. 2:37unable to change the
66. 2:39the bureaucracies that they manage and
67. 2:41oversee respectively we have done a
68. 2:44grave disservice to the people who
69. 2:46bestowed this high honor
70. 2:48this high honor upon us institutional
71. 2:51structures
72. 2:52biases and cultures
73. 2:55we often refer to those as stovepipes
74. 2:58these divisions