Intelligence Community Seen as Resistant to Change

By Mary Louise Kelly

Published April 1, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

The presidential commission report released Thursday outlining U.S. intelligence failures in Iraq, Iran and North Korea makes more than 70 recommendations on how to improve intelligence gathering. But observers worry that the CIA and other spy agencies are inherently resistant to change.

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