WASHINGTON - Senate Intelligence Committee Republicans proposed removing the nation's largest intelligence gathering operations from the CIA and the Pentagon and putting them directly under a new national intelligence director.
This is interesting. But here's the kicker....
But he immediately ran into some resistance from a Democrat on his own committee. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said that before appearing with Roberts on the CBS show neither he nor the committee's ranking Democrat, Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, had seen the full proposal.
"I think it would be better to start on a bipartisan basis," Levin said. "I think it's a mistake to begin with a partisan bill no matter what is in it."
Roberts doesnt seem to be a partisan hack, unlike Porter Goss. Conservative Republican yes, but not one of the bad ones. I'm suprised that he didnt work this out with Rockefeller (ranking member).
We should be watchful so that this isnt poison pilled like the Homeland Security debacle in 2002.