Rumsfeld, Goss Buck 9/11 Commission, Agree to Share Paramilitary Missions

By Jason Sherman / February 16, 2005 at 5:00 AM
The Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency have hammered out a new agreement delineating how they will share responsibility for paramilitary operations, bucking a 9/11 Commission recommendation that called for all such activities to be shifted from the CIA to U.S. Special Operations Command. CIA Director Porter Goss, in his first public hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, announced the move today but declined to detail the understanding he and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have sketched out in...

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