Intelligence overhaul plan draws immediate criticism
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
WASHINGTON -- A key Republican's proposal to break up the CIA and rearrange the Pentagon's spy agencies under a national intelligence director met immediate and broad resistance Monday. A top Senate Democrat called it a "severe mistake" and the agency's former director said it showed a "dangerous misunderstanding of the business of intelligence."
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