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1 9/11 Commission Report: Missing 28 Pages of the Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States [i] (2004)

handle is hein.prescomm/twoeitmis0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Conres of tie initleb Stateg wabim. U.tC. January 29.2003 The Honorable George J. Tenet Director of Central Intelligence Washington, DC 20505 Dear Director Tenet: As you know, the final report of the Joint Inquiry into the events of September II has been submitted to the Intelligence Community for declassification review. We look forward to early release of the public report so that efforts at reforms can be accelerated. Having been privileged to lead this bipartisan. bicameral Investigation last year. we are committed to working in the current Congress to help securo implementation of its recommendations. In furtherance of that goal, we are writing to the President and heads of departments and agencies about portions of the Joint. Inquiry's recommendations that may be of particular concern to them. Our first recommendation calls for establishment of a Director of National Intelligence, or DNI. who In addition to being the Presidents principal intelligence adviser 'shall have the full range of management, budgetary and personnel responsiblitles needed to make the U.S. Intelligence Community operate as a coherent whole.* To help promote both strong leadership of the entire Intelligence Community leadership and an effective CIA. the Joint Inquiry also recommended that Congress provide that the ONI not simultaneously serve as director of the CIA or any other agency. In considering this recommendation, the Congress will certainly, we believe, benefit from leaming of your views about the strengthening of the role of head of the Intelligence Community. A number of the recommendations that follow address proposed tasks of the Director of National Intelligence, but as that reform will require study and deliberation. for the Immediate future those further recommendations are directed to the Director of Central Intelligence as the present statutory head of the Intelligence Community. The Joint inquiry found that prior to September 11 neither the U.S. Government as a whole nor the Intelligence Community had a comprehensive counterterrorist strategy. One of our recommendations calls on the National Security Council, In conjunction with key agency and department heads, to prepare such a strategy for the Presidents approval. The recommendation states that the strategy should be Digitized from Best Copy Available

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