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Report: the Report of the Commission on Intelligence on WMDs:
Source: Report to the President on WMDs, p.158-162
Human Intelligence: Conclusion 1 Saddam Hussein's Iraq was a hard target for human intelligence, but it will not be the last that we face. When faced with such targets in the future, the United States needs to supplement its traditional methodologies with more innovative approaches. Conclusion 2 Rewarding CIA and DIA case officers based on how many assets they recruit impedes the recruitment of quality assets. Conclusion 3 The CIA, and even more so the DIA, must do a better job of testing the veracity of crucial human sources. Conclusion 4 Iraq's denial and deception efforts successfully hampered U.S. intelligence collection. Conclusion 5 In the case of Iraq, collectors of intelligence absorbed the prevailing analytic consensus and tended to reject or ignore contrary information. The result was "tunnel vision" focusing on the Intelligence Community's existing assumptions.
- Topic: Homeland Security
- Headline: Innovate intelligence-gathering for future hard targets
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Democrats
participating in 05-WMD-07 |
| Charles Robb |
s1s | VA Democratic Senator (Former) | |
Republicans
participating in 05-WMD-07 |
| John McCain |
s1s | AZ Republican Sr Senator | |
Independents
participating in 05-WMD-07 |
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Republicans:
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