By Jeff Bliss
Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The Bush administration has failed to carry out the 9-11 Commission's recommendations aimed at improving the U.S. intelligence network, panel members said.
The nation's 16 spy agencies are still slow to share information and there's no evidence that it's easier to move money and personnel among the agencies, members of the 9-11 Commission say. The most visible accomplishment of the current director of national intelligence, John Negroponte, has been to amass a staff of more than 1,300, they say.``The Bush administration's execution of the DNI reforms recommended by our commission has been a failure,'' said John Lehman, a member of the panel that probed the Sept. 11 attacks and a secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan.
Bob Kerrey, a former Democratic senator from Nebraska who served on the commission, said the Bush administration lost the urgency it displayed after the 2001 terrorist attacks to coordinate efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency. ``The unity of purpose of the FBI and CIA six months after 9/11 has disappeared,'' Kerrey said.
A Senate Intelligence Committee hearing today will give Vice Admiral Michael McConnell, 63, President George W. Bush's choice to replace Negroponte, a chance to say how he plans to turn the post into what the commission envisioned. McConnell is expected to receive confirmation by the full Senate. Negroponte is leaving to become deputy secretary of state.
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