{"id":50587,"date":"2012-01-29T19:59:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T17:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=50587"},"modified":"2014-01-06T23:15:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T21:15:46","slug":"former-nsa-chief-called-cia-out-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/01\/29\/former-nsa-chief-called-cia-out-of-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NSA Chief Called CIA \u2018Out of Control\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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William Odom, former director of the National Security Agency, was known as an outspoken advocate for intelligence reform<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The CIA is \u201cout of control\u201d and often refuses to cooperate with other parts of the national security community, even undermining their efforts, said former National Security Agency head William Odom, according to a\u00a0recently released record\u00a0of a 9\/11 Commission interview.<\/h2>\n

By Sharon Weinberger<\/p>\n

\u201cThe CIA currently doesn\u2019t work for anyone. It thinks it works for the president, but it doesn\u2019t and it\u2019s out of control,\u201d<\/strong> says a report summarizing remarks made by Odom, a retired three-star general who served as director of the NSA from 1985 to 1988.<\/p>\n

Odom, who also served on the National Security Council staff during the Carter administration, was known as an outspoken advocate for intelligence reform. He died in 2008.<\/p>\n

The 2003 interview, among others conducted by the 9\/11 Commission, was posted on the website\u00a0Cryptome, which is often compared to the secret-spilling WikiLeaks website. The report was not a leak, however, but one of many records relating to the 9\/11 Commission that have been released and made available on the\u00a0National Archives website.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuite a few remain \u2018access restricted\u2019 for classification review,\u201d John Young, who runs Cryptome, told AOL News in an e-mail about the records, some of which he has reposted. \u201cWe expect to make an FOIA [Freedom of information Act] request for their release once we have a full listing of those restricted.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the commission interview, Odom portrayed CIA officers as individualistic, saying they were interested in writing \u201cexposes.\u201d He also accused the CIA of not sharing \u201chumint,\u201d meaning intelligence collected through contact with people, and of trying to sabotage the Pentagon\u2019s own work in this area.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe director of the CIA has as much reason to brief the president as the man on the moon,\u201d Odom told the staff of the commission investigating the failure to prevent the terror attacks.<\/p>\n

Odom also believed that intelligence officials weren\u2019t held sufficiently accountable for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. He said he believed that the heads of the NSA and the CIA should both have been fired by the president after 9\/11 for \u201csymbolic purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many of Odom\u2019s views had already been laid out in his book, \u201cFixing Intelligence,\u201d which presented his ideas for overhauling the U.S. intelligence process. Some of the reforms Odom advocated to the commission, such as separation of the director of national intelligence from the head of the CIA, were eventually implemented.<\/p>\n

While deeply critical of the CIA, Odom also had harsh words for other NSA directors, including Adm. Bobby Inman, whom he accused of \u201cplaying games\u201d in Washington. He also said that Gen. Michael Hayden, then the director of the NSA, was \u201cdestroying\u201d the agency and didn\u2019t know his \u201cintellectual limits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hayden went on to become head of the CIA in 2006.<\/p>\n

www.veteranstoday.com, 15 January 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The CIA is \u201cout of control\u201d and often refuses to cooperate with other parts of the national security community, even undermining their efforts, said former National Security Agency head William Odom, according to a\u00a0recently released record\u00a0of a 9\/11 Commission interview. By Sharon Weinberger \u201cThe CIA currently doesn\u2019t work for anyone. It thinks it works for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":50588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[957,7903,7904],"class_list":["post-50587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-cia","tag-intelligence-reform","tag-william-odom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}