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 A Good Delay
 
    LAST WEEKEND Congress passed up the opportunity to adopt, after scant consideration, the largest reorganization of the U.S. intelligence community in half a century -- a measure that was rushed through both houses with election-year zeal and then concocted by a conference committee into a 500-page omnibus that hardly anyone had read, much less considered. Intended to respond to the intelligence failures identified by the  Sept. 11 commission, this "reform" quickly degenerated into a turf war  among the intelligence agencies, the Pentagon and their allies in Congress; it also became a vehicle for House Republicans seeking to promote unrelated but far-reaching changes in immigration law and police powers. Though we hardly sympathize with the agendas of the House committee chairmen who blocked what would have been a late-night vote Saturday, the legislation's failure strikes us as a benefit. More time and more careful deliberation is needed before such sweeping changes are enacted.
 
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