Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism Report Card

Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism Report Card January 26, 2010 from the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism

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"Proposals like that of the Director of National Intelligence to establish an Intelligence Officer Training Corps, modeled on the military’s ROTC program, are critical to provide future scientific and engineering personnel as well as linguistic and area studies for developing capable analysts. While the use of contract personnel fills some vacancies, the practice is overly expensive, creates no lasting organizational expertise, and is, at best, a short-term solution to a long-term problem. What needs to be done is known and the national consequences of not hiring a sufficient number of qualified individuals are understood. Therefore, the decision of both the Administration and Congress to not adequately fund needed recruitment and retention programs, to include joint-duty assignments, is an inexcusable failure. To judge this situation as anything other than an abject failure, both the Administration and Congress must commit to spending what is required to recruit, hire, train, and
retrain a qualified, motivated national security workforce."