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Senator: Iraq, 9/11 Prompted CIA Plan

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts says that a year ago he probably wouldn’t have proposed the sweeping intelligence overhaul he brought forward this week. But given the series of inquiries into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the prewar intelligence on Iraq, and his eight years presiding over “Oh-my-God hearings,” the Kansas Republican said he saw the need to act. On Monday, he put forward details of a plan to break up the CIA and rearrange the Pentagon’s spy agencies under a single national intelligence director, among a litany of other changes outlined in a 139-page draft bill.Full Story