Changes: National Security System

Experts’ Report Urges Changes In National Security System, (Washington Post)…Walter Pincus

A bipartisan panel of foreign policy experts, including some associated with the incoming Obama administration, has recommended changes in the White House national security apparatus that would provide the president and his staff with new tools to ensure interagency cooperation.

“The basic deficiency of the current national security system is that parochial departmental and agency interests, reinforced by Congress, paralyze interagency cooperation even as the variety, speed and complexity of emerging security issues prevents the White House from effectively controlling the system,” says the report of the Project on National Security Reform, released yesterday.

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