This is indeed a fair and reasonable objective for not just the intelligence agencies but any operative branch overseas.

They will develop more of the necessary autonomy and purposeful brief when the ridiculous Bush administration is politically dead.

Examples of how a little forethought could help (but this mental faculty is not available to the Bush idiots) would be to have provided the military with Stop Signs in Arabic for their checkpoints in Iraq, to avoid having to kill hundreds of civilians. I guess you just can't think of everything huh.

Dawm, they don't need French people. They could have hired me to go and spy over the Frenchs. Lol..

And yes, the bush administrations is a bunch of idiots.
Did you knew that Condolezza Rice had a pretroleum-ship named after her (and big shares in some huge petrol company), and when she knew she'd have a important job in the administration, she asked for the ship to be named something else? Huumm...does it smell petrol war here?

I couldn't help but laugh when last week (I think it was last week) the American gov. "begged" for help from other country over the Irak situation and admited it was getting out of hand.

Sorry, kinda out of topic, but I had to pop that in..