He blamed poor intelligence reporting on cuts in intelligence funding in the mid-90s.'in order to make overall staff savings
and, within the staff that remained, to free resources for operational work, SIS brought
together the different functions of running sources and controlling their reporting into one unified team,
whose leader was responsible for the total output. The consequence of this
was thought by the witness to be that the quality assurance function of the SIS
‘Requirements’ officer, responsible for checking the validity and quality of source
reporting, became subjected to the operational imperative of the team leader to produce
results.'
Why not?
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and, within the staff that remained, to free resources for operational work, SIS brought
together the different functions of running sources and controlling their reporting into one unified team,
whose leader was responsible for the total output. The consequence of this
was thought by the witness to be that the quality assurance function of the SIS
‘Requirements’ officer, responsible for checking the validity and quality of source
reporting, became subjected to the operational imperative of the team leader to produce
results.'
Why not?