Critics Question Need for Third Intelligence-Scholarship Program

Demand for foreign-language specialists isn't being met, say supporters

As co-chairman of the 2002 Congressional inquiry into the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Sen. Bob Graham heard firsthand how a shortage of Arabic-speaking analysts had contributed to intelligence failures in the FBI and the CIA. So when his Senate colleagues were crafting an intelligence-reform bill two years later, Mr. Graham asked them to include language authorizing a new scholarship program for students

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