For instance, we discovered yesterday that neither the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency nor the Secretary of Homeland Security were consulted before the decision was taken to allow Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab to lawyer-up in Detroit.

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But as George Tenet, a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has argued, an intelligence director with only general supervisory powers could weaken co-ordination not strengthen it.

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Among the participants were former Secretaries of Defense James Schlesinger and Caspar Weinberger , the former Director of Naval Nuclear Reactors, Admiral Kinnaird McKee , the former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Vice Admiral Al Burkhalter , former Under Secretary of Defense Don Hicks and former chief strategic arms negotiator Ambassador Linton Brooks .

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