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Former CIA Head to Investigate US Security Breaches

   VOA News 09 January 2010
   Acting  CIA  Director  John McLaughlin appears before the Senate Armed
   Services  Committee  on  Capitol  Hill in Washington Tuesday, Aug. 17,
   2004,   to   discuss   proposed  reorganization  of  the  intelligence
   community.

Photo: AP

   Former CIA Director John McLaughlin (file photo)

   A  former  director of the CIA has been chosen to uncover how the U.S.
   failed  to  prevent  the  Christmas Day bombing attempt on a passenger
   plane, and the Fort Hood Army base shooting.
   National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair said in a statement Friday
   John  McLaughlin is "especially well-qualified" for the task, and will
   provide  "candid,  constructive  guidance"  on  how  to  avoid similar
   security breaches in the future.
   McLaughlin  was the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency
   for  four  years,  including  during  the September 11, 2001 terrorist
   attacks.  He was also briefly the acting director of the CIA in 2004.
   He  will  head  a team of national security experts to investigate the
   series  of events that led up to two incidents and make suggestions to
   "remedy potential weaknesses" for the future.
   Nigerian  Umar  Farouk Abdulmutallab is accused of trying to blow up a
   U.S.  passenger  jet  on December 25 as it approached the U.S. city of
   Detroit.
   And  U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan is accused of killing 13 people
   and  wounding  30  others  during a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood,
   Texas military base in early November.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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