"Facing a new order of threats to national security, we know we have to do our work differently and do it better, but the most critical element in intelligence reform resides in you, the people who will carry it out," Mr. Negroponte said in a one-page statement addressed to all of the government's intelligence employees.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a Senate panel that an estimated 70% of intelligence employees had been furloughed.
The bombing also killed Ghulam Rasool, the deputy intelligence director for Kandahar Province, two of his bodyguards and another Afghan intelligence employee, and set in motion a revenge killing.
German officials are investigating a second spy case reportedly involving the US, a week after the arrest of a German intelligence employee cast a new shadow over relations between the two countries.
One intelligence employee, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the delicacy of the issue, said the two situations — China's stealing of trade and military secrets and N.S.A. surveillance to track possible terrorist attacks — were not comparable.
But this is the first instance this year in which an insider attack by an Afghan intelligence employee is known to have resulted in a death of a member of the NATO-led coalition.
In the United States in January, a wayward drone flown by an off-duty intelligence employee crashed on the White House grounds, raising questions over how commercial and consumer drones can be used safely in the US.
A U.S. intelligence employee, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said the two situations — China's stealing of trade and military secrets and N.S.A. surveillance to track possible terrorist attacks — are not comparable, calling them "apples and oranges".
In just the past few weeks we've heard from the former undercover officer, Peter Francis, with allegations that police tried to smear the family and friends of Stephen Lawrence and Edward Snowden, the former US intelligence employee who leaked classified documents revealing US internet and phone surveillance.
"We were broken into and we thought it was useless employment data and we are slowly discovering what it was that they stole," says the former intelligence employee.
Either way, the facts may never fully answer why Kangas, an obscure on-line liberal advocate and former Army intelligence employee, traveled some 3,000 miles from Las Vegas to shoot himself in a bathroom outside the Pittsburgh office of ultraconservative billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife.
