As President Truman did at the start of the Cold War, President Bush continues -- with the counsel of advisers and commissions -- to reorganize covert intelligence to meet new realities. One recommendation is to put all secret paramilitary operations under the Pentagon, which seems reasonable to us on the face of it.

Resistance is coming from the CIA old guard(as may be expected), the military (which usually likes getting more stuff), and conservative House Republicans.

Get with the program, guys. The old arrangements plainly did not work.