Reply #1: Know Why They Don't Like This Idea?

[Demeter]

I'm willing to bet money it's because the CIA would be ripped out of the hands of the BFEE and their hangers-on, subject to public oversight and accountability.

The apologists for the intelligence services conveniently overlook the amount of contamination of the information.

We have TWO massive failures of intelligence:

9/11 in which nobody was looking, because they were told not to explicitly, and

Iraq in which everybody was looking at a dog and pony show that was pure fabrication, and justified by failure #1.

So we had best put the leash on Bush, and tell him he has no more chances to create failure #3, Iran.