US intelligence 'mushroomed' after 9/11
Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:55:24 GMT
Terrorists hijacked planes to strike the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001.2001年9月11日恐怖分子劫持飛機撞擊在紐約市的世界貿易中心雙子塔。
The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks kicked off the establishment of a sprawling intelligence community in the US with no way to head off its mushrooming growth.
在2001年9月11日，恐怖襲擊事件在美國開展建立一所龐大的情報機構，沒有辦法阻止它的氾濫增長。
Following two years of investigation, The Washington Post came to the conclusion on Monday that since 2001, the bureaucracy has turned to be "so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work."
經過兩年的調查，華盛頓郵報在週一得出結論，自2001年以來，官僚機構已淪落到“如此笨拙和如此神秘，因此沒有人知道它成本多少，它僱用多少人，它內裡有多少項目存在，或有多少機構在做同樣的工作。“
The paper said its findings suggested that around 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies were involved in counterterrorism-related programs, and together they occupied 33 building complexes already built or under construction.
該報稱它的調查結果顯示，約有 1,271個政府組織和 1,931間私營公司參與反恐有關項目，和他們一起佔領33座已建成或正在建設的複式建築。
The space could embrace nearly three Pentagons or 22 US Capitol buildings, it said.
空間可以 擁抱近3座五角大樓或22座美國國會大廈，它說。
"There has been so much growth since 9/11 that getting your arms around that -- not just for the DNI [Director of National Intelligence], but for any individual, for the director of the CIA, for the secretary of defense -- is a challenge," Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the Post.
The probe also referred to the gigantic redundancy and waste generated by the enormous bureaucracy.
該調查亦提到巨大的冗餘和浪費，由巨大的官僚機構產生。
According to the report, the US leads its homeland security and intelligence programs from some 10,000 locations across the country.
根據報告，美國領導它的國土安全和情報項目，從遍布全國各地大約 10,000個地點。
This is while, Washington uses 51 federal and military commands located in 15 US cities to track money shipments by terrorist networks.
這是一段時間，華盛頓使用51個聯邦和設在美國 15個城市的軍區司令部，去追踪恐怖網絡洗錢。
The various agencies involved in the job produce a whopping 50,000 intelligence reports annually, "many" of which "are routinely ignored," said the Post.
參與這項工作的各類機構每年生產驚人的50,000份情報報告，其中很“多”“是經常被忽視，”郵報說。
Alleged al-Qaeda terrorists conducted a series of coordinated attacks on the US soil in September 2001.
The attacks gave the US and its allies the excuse to send troops to Afghanistan, where they claimed was the al-Qaeda hub at the time.
The so-called global war on terrorism has so far cost the American taxpayers billions of dollars.
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美報：「美國情報系統浪費龐大」
更新時間 2010年 7月 19日, 格林尼治標準時間15:35
華盛頓郵報》說，美國911事件之後創立的情報和監視系統變得如此龐大，以致無法確定它的效用。《華盛頓郵報》長達兩年的一項調查發現，有1,270個政府組織和將近2,000個私人組織參與到情報和監視工作中，造成機構笨重、過多浪費。
這些組織在全美1萬多個地點展開反恐工作。
這份報告發表之前，白宮對《華盛頓郵報》說，政府了解情報機構存在的這個問題，並且在試著解決。
儘管如此，有官員質疑這項調查的一些結論。
美國官員說，改革已經帶來了重大的改善，但是一名BBC記者說，像去年12月底特律飛機未遂爆炸案揭示了問題仍在持續。
《華盛頓郵報》表示，這一調查的基礎是政府報告、公共數據、以及與數百名情報、軍事、商業部門官員以及前官員的採訪。
據信，大多數接受採訪的官員要求不公開自己的姓名，因為他們沒有得到公開談話的許可，或者害怕在工作場合遭到報復。
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/trad/world/2010/07/100719_us_intelligence.shtml
記者潛伏2年揭密美政府的“隱秘世界”:9·11后的美國情報機構
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