-Caveat Lector-
Thursday, 13 September 2001 13:36 (ET)
Bush Sr.: Free up spy bodies
By KATHY GAMBRELL, UPI Washington Reporter
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Former President George H.W. Bush said
Thursday that U.S. intelligence agencies need fewer restrictions in the
wake
of the terrorist attacks that leveled the World Trade Center in New York
and
heavily damaged the Pentagon.
"It is far more difficult to fight an enemy that won't show his face,"
Bush said from Boston.
The senior Bush, who served as the nation's 41st president and as CIA
director from 1976 to 1980, made his comments two days after the terrorist
attacks that left thousands dead.
"The enemy is unpredictability and instability," Bush said.
He said new dangers had emerged to take the place of the "Soviet bear" and
superpower confrontation.
"All of this and more should reinforce the need for Americans to have the
best possible intelligence in the world," Bush said.
"Human intelligence is kind of a dirty business and in it you have to deal
with a lot of unsavory people," Bush said.
He went on to say: "If you are going to infiltrate some cell somewhere or
a terrorist cell, you have to deal with people who are willing to betray
their country, people who are willing to betray their friends, people who
want money or other things. And it's not pleasant."
The intelligence community, he said, must be freed up from some of its
restraints to provide the president with the best information possible. He
said lawmakers will have to "take a hard look" at whether the United States
has gone too far in denying the people who run the intelligence community
access to informants.
He expressed confidence in his son President Bush's abilities to reach out
to international leaders and members of Congress, saying he was doing "the
right thing."
He said several people have called him to apologize for their premature
judgments on the president's decision to land Air Force One at a military
installation in Louisiana and then at a second military base in Nebraska,
en
route from Sarasota, Fla.
He said: "I have to confess to being a little annoyed at the attacks on
him for following security procedures, not rushing right back to
Washington.
But as you've seen in today's (Thursday's) paper, there were some credible
threats against the president and indeed on the White House itself."
Bush also urged Americans not to unjustly blame Arab Americans and Muslims
living in the United States for the attacks.
"We must guard against painting with such a broad brush that we cause
innocent Arab-Americans or Islamic believers anywhere to come under unfair
attack," he said in a statement.
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