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HARRIS: In today's CNN "Security Watch" -- oh, my. Sorry, Kyra.</s>PHILLIPS: Hey, we're going to move on to "Security Watch" in a minute. I guess you can say this is a bit of a security watch.</s>HARRIS: Yes.</s>PHILLIPS: This is video coming in to us from KABC. It was a car chase that has been taking place within the last 45 minutes. And you can see the California Highway Patrol just clipping that suspect in that minivan. We're going to take you to live pictures now via our affiliate KCAL. What started as a chase had now turned into a standoff. All we know is that the chase began when Ventura County sheriff's deputies tried to stop the car, someone they believed was a kidnapping suspect, also armed. Well, the chase began. You saw the video where they just clipped it as he was pulling over into another lane. Now it's turned into a standoff. Don't know if anybody else is inside besides the suspect, but he is believed to be a kidnapping suspect, armed. And as you can see now, officers in a standoff, trying to establish communication with that suspect. We're watching it for you. We'll keep you updated on what happens. This is actually off of Robertson Boulevard. That's off the Santa Monica 10 Freeway, sort of mid-city area of Los Angeles. We're following it for you. We'll bring you more as soon as we get it.</s>HARRIS: In today's CNN "Security Watch," research paper or roadmap for terrorists? The government wants to stop publication of a paper that details how terrorists could contaminate the nation's milk supply. A Health and Human Services official says the paper contains precise information on how much poison is needed to kill large numbers of people. The paper also has safety recommendations. Officials from the HHS and the scientific community meet today to talk about it.</s>PHILLIPS: Well, CIA chief on the sidelines. According to "TIME" magazine, a quietly circulated White House memo indicates that the CIA director is no longer automatically invited to National Security Council meetings. It seems the nation's new intelligence czar has grabbed his spot. So what does this mean for the CIA director, Porter Goss? Let's bring in our Washington insider, Bob Barr. Bob, good to see you.</s>BOB BARR, FMR. U.S. REPRESENTATIVE: Thank you, Kyra.</s>PHILLIPS: Well, what do you think about that? And here's the quote directly from "TIME" magazine. It says, "After nearly 60 years at the pinnacle of American intelligence, and at the elbow of the presidents, the CIA director is no longer automatically welcome at the president's National Security Council meetings. John Negroponte, the new director of national intelligence, has taken his chair." How are we supposed to read that?</s>BARR: Well, this -- this really comes as no surprise, Kyra. The handwriting was -- was on the wall, so to speak, in the legislation that set up the new director of national intelligence. Washington has been abuzz for years, even before 9/11, with regard to what has happened to the CIA, why has it failed time after time after time, going back to failing to foresee the demise of the Soviet Union back in the 1980s, through the Iraq situation. So this is really simply the logical conclusion. And if the CIA is smart -- and, of course, its new director, Porter Goss, is a pretty smart guy -- he will in fact take this time to focus on getting the CIA's house, its structure, back in order.</s>PHILLIPS: But how do you know how to do that and to get it back in order and be in touch with what's happening in the world and what the president needs when you're not even invited to the most important intelligence meetings in the country?</s>BARR: One has to remember, really, the core CIA mission that they sort have gotten way from in recent decades. And that core mission is not to be sitting around the White House, but to be out there in the real world gathering intelligence, analyzing that intelligence, and making sure it gets to the policymakers. That's what the CIA used to do so very well. It has not done it in recent years. And they have an awful lot of very good analysts, very good operatives there. But they have not had the leadership infrastructure to translate that into a good product. They have to redevelop, re-establish the credibility of their product. And then they'll get a seat back at the table.</s>PHILLIPS: Now, you were an analyst at the CIA. This was before you became a congressman. And the time that you were there you thought things were running pretty smoothly, right?</s>BARR: They really were. That was -- now, of course, you know, during the time I was there, it was also the period of time that's been in the news recently with the Watergate scandal and Deep Throat and so forth. But at least in terms of its core mission, the CIA back then knew what it was about, the analysts had tremendous leeway in terms of getting their product, analyzing it properly, without a lot of political influence. That has all changed in recent years. And that's what the CIA director needs to focus on, re-establishing that credibility of their product.</s>PHILLIPS: So, Bob, let me ask you, if the CIA director is not in these NSC meetings, then it sounds like 9/11 all over again, where people weren't communicating and people weren't talking, and the FBI and the CIA and the president and everybody else didn't know what each intel agency had.</s>BARR: Well, you're absolutely correct, that was one of the main reasons why the terrorists succeed on 9/11. But it really -- the answer to your question, and it's a very, very good question, is, whether or not this new entity, think new director of national intelligence, which has the support and the direct involvement of the president himself, who is ultimately the consumer of the intelligence that these agencies prepare, whether or not that DNI, Mr. Negroponte, will be able to establish his primacy over the entire intelligence structure. That's going take an awful lot of hard work over the next year, year and a half. So the jury's still out on that one. But I think he'll be able to do it.</s>PHILLIPS: Bob Barr, thank you so much. And CNN is committed to providing you with the most reliable coverage of news that affects your security. Stay tuned to CNN 24/7 for the latest information.</s>HARRIS: It is the story that had us all talking, uninvited house guest.</s>PHILLIPS: The guest as, I guess you could say, a bit wild and downright belligerent. 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