The president said that while the CIA and the National Security Agency (NSA) had both collected faulty intelligence in the past, “there is simply too much misinformation out there for those two agencies to handle.” Bush said that he hoped that the Department of Faulty Intelligence would not only increase the United States’ capacity to collect false leads and red herrings, but that it would also help coordinate the sharing of useless information among the government’s various spy agencies.
Bush used the announcement at the White House to introduce his nominee to head up the new department, James Frey, the author of “A Million Little Pieces.” Frey spoke mainly in general terms about the goals of the new agency, but indicated that it would focus on “the gathering threat” posed by Belgium’s nuclear program.
In his brief remarks to the press, Frey said that he was uniquely qualified to head the new faulty intelligence department because of his “deep roots” in the faulty-intelligence community. “I will be bringing over four decades of experience to this job,” said Frey, 37.
Elsewhere, a lunar eclipse occurred over the weekend when former Vice President Al Gore briefly stepped in front of the moon.
