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William Odom interview with 9/11 Commission (1 post)

  1. mark
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    http://cryptome.org/nara/dod/dod-03-1112.pdf

    Former NSA Director William Odom on 9/11 Intelligence Failures:

    (U) The CIA currently does not work for anyone - it pretends to work for the President but is in fact out of control. He talked about the "dirty-pictures phenomenon," namely that intelligence agency directors like to show and the President may like to see. For example, the DirNSA should not be an intelligence officer, delivering SIGINT products to customers. Yet NSA Director Admiral Inman was "addicted" to the dirty-pictures phenomenon and was "running around" showing sensitive SIGINT to senior leaders.

    (U) 60-90% of intelligence is from the media or open source. Open source is very credible, and even DCI Casey was very clear about that.

    (U) Gen. Hayden is "destroying" NSA. He acknowledged that lower-level NSA officials always complain about senior management, but he does feel that Gen. Hayden is misguided because Gen. Hayden has destroyed 2-3 levels of management - top NSA management is trying to manage at the technical levels but cannot do so. He accused Gen. Hayden of not knowing his own intellectual limits.

    (U) He cannot understand how the President could not have fired the DirNSA and DCI after 9/11, even if they are not specifically 'guilty.' They need to be fired for symbolic purposes.

    Posted 13 years ago #

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