Mr. FREDERICK HITZ (Former Inspector General, Central Intelligence Agency): It doesn't sound to me like the first thing you'd reach for if you wanted to terminate a life in this fashion.
He adds that the unknown men, whom he suspects are either Islamist militants acting independently or members of Bangladesh's military intelligence agency, Directorate General of Forces Intelligence, are telling his neighbors he is an Israeli spy.
Air force personnel control civilian air traffic, and a general oversees the main intelligence agency.
He also held meetings with Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, the country's army chief, and Lt Gen Ahmad Shuja Pasha, director-general of the ISI intelligence agency.
These statements stand in stark contrast to information provided earlier this year to the U.S. Congress by Defense Intelligence Agency director, Lieutenant General Patrick Hughes, and recounted by Richard Staar in an op.ed. published by the Wall Street Journal on 14 June 1996.
It complements and supplements, rather than duplicates the oversight roles of the Director of National Intelligence, Department and Agency Inspectors General and General Counsels, and the Congressional Oversight Committees.
For their part, West Midlands Police say that in general their officers pass on relevant intelligence to Ofcom as the agency repsonsible for tackling transmissions.
The latest example is that of General Humberto Gordon, the former head of the national intelligence agency, who on September 14th was charged with possible involvement in the death of a union leader.
Yet since his subordinate, former CIA Director General David Petraeus, recently testified before a congressional intelligence committee that his agency knew terrorists were responsible from the very beginning, he can hardly plead ignorance of that same information.
But as George Tenet, a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has argued, an intelligence director with only general supervisory powers could weaken co-ordination not strengthen it.
ECONOMIST: Intelligence reform: Centralised intelligence? | The
He even agreed to send the head of the notorious spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Lieutenant-General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, to Delhi.
Rather than meet this new challenge with an aggressive counterterror initiative, this week officers on the General Staff told Haaretz that Military Intelligence, the civil administration and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) believe the best way to respond to Hamas's ascendency is to release Fatah terrorists from jail and to give more land to Fatah's terror-aligned security forces in Judea and Samaria.
应用推荐