CIA Report Blames Tenet for 9/ll Failure
EmailFormer CIA director George Tenet "bears ultimate responsibility" for failing to create a strategic plan to stop al Qaeda prior to 9/ll, according to a review by the CIA’s inspector general that was made public today, more than two years after it was written. The report says that while Tenet wrote he wanted "no resources or people spared" in going after al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, neither he, nor his deputy, "followed up these warnings and admonitions by creating a documented, comprehensive plan to guide the counterterrorism effort." "I know now why Tenet worked so hard to kill this report," said former White House counterterrorism official Richard Clarke, now an ABC News consultant. World News Video: CIA Failures Leading Up to 9/11 Exposed In a written statement, Tenet, who received the Medal of Freedom from President Bush, said the report was "flat wrong." Tenet said the inspector general failed to interview him. "He fails to understand how intensely I pushed the counterterrorism issue," Tenet said. The current CIA director, Gen. Mike Hayden, said the report was being made public "against his wishes" but as required by law. Hayden said he, like his predecessor Porter Goss, had no plans to punish CIA officials cited in the report. Click Here for Full Blotter Coverage. In recounting intelligence failures prior to 9/ll, the inspector general said there was neither "a single point of failure nor a silver bullet" that would have enabled the CIA to predict or prevent the 9/ll attacks. But the report concludes there were "failures to implement and manage important processes, to follow through with operations, and to properly share and analyze critical data." The report says Tenet "did not use all his authorities in leading the IC’s (intelligence community’s) strategic effort" against bin Laden. "That’s not fair," said ABC News consultant Clarke. "Of course there was a strategic effort, and he did raise the issue at the highest levels of government." Vote: Do you think Tenet is to blame for failing to stop al Qaeda before 9/11? And the report provides new details of the CIA’s failure to alert the FBI that two al Qaeda operatives, who would be among the 9/ll hijackers, had entered the United States. According to the report, "some 50 to 60" inside the CIA read "one or more of six Agency cables" that reported the two men had flown through Bangkok to Los Angeles. The cables "were read by overseas officers and Headquarters personnel, operations officers and analysts, managers and junior employees," the report says, but over the course of 18 months, no one from the CIA shared the information with the FBI or sought to put the names on the State Department’s terror watch list. "That so many individuals failed to act in this case reflects a systemic breakdown," the report concludes. "Basically, there was no coherent, functioning watch listing program," it says. Do you have a tip for Brian Ross and the Investigative Team?
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Good job “Brownie”
Posted by: JC | August 21, 2007, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm
Report the facts and leave the opinions on the editorial pages. Although the vast majority of the material is liberal, certainly there are issues with reports which lean conservatively as well. Just report the facts, accurately and unbiasedly and let us decide.
The first major news organization (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox) to do so – will find they cleanup in the ratings and in the dollars.
Posted by: John Q Public | August 21, 2007, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm
The is ‘fall guy #?’. How many does this make and how many will it take?
Posted by: Sheila Police-Stewart | August 21, 2007, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm
Time to CHANGE history so more – Just make sure we don’t blame Bush and Cheney for ANYTHING.
Posted by: connie | August 21, 2007, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm
I hope that more such reports will place high officials on notice that they are not going to be praised and lauded for failure and that they take the motto from Spider Man to heart “With great strength comes great repsonsibility”. It is very disheartening to learn about the failures of U.S. intelligence officials and to accept that the Pres. of the U.S. is really a mediocre fellow who mislead us into a war that is not making us any safer than we were on 9/11 and that his war has needlessly drained money and resources and ended the lives or caused terrible bodily harm to thousands of soldiers and caused their families and friends so much suffering. But, it is extemely important that reports such as this are made public so that the people who did not live up to the awesome responsiblity they took on, or failed, are at least held accountable and burdoned by shame. Without a sense of shame there can be no effort on the part of officials not to get big headed and have the humility and to review and correct sloppy systemic errors and miscalculations. It is sad to hear George Tenent arguing his own merits but he can continue to do so only because Pres. Bush (to cover his own poor eadership) rewarded him for his incompetence with a medal of honor. Let’s stop praising failure and demand results.
Posted by: maddymappo | August 21, 2007, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm
Gee is he going to return his “medal of freedom” now or keep it to show everyone how anybody in Bush’s government gets rewarded when they tow the company line! From Tenant on, Bush and Cheney wanted to invade Iraq it was Tenant’s job to make sure the accusations they leveled were in line with “the facts”, and if they weren’t then make them! So they did and here we all are, looking at a broken country, broken military, broken economy here, there, their infrastructure is blown all to hell, ours is collapsing. So in reality Bush has dealt the world two for one, he took out Iraq and the U.S. at the same time, who needs Terrorist!
Posted by: Sue Filutze | August 21, 2007, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm
When the Iran Contra affair became apparent Ronald Reagan as President of the United States said I am in charge. It is my fault.
George W Bush presides over a terrorist attack in which he was warned first by the outgoing Clinton government and then repeatedly by Richard Clarke, the response of which was a demotion.
Not by George Tenet but by Condoleeza Rice. A member of the Bush cabinet. There was a state of denial throughout the Bush government. Tenet is been produced as the fall guy.
Richrd Clarke had produced a plan to counter Al Qaeda it was not enacted.
Posted by: Chris | August 21, 2007, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm
Bush Jr. will probably give him ANOTHER Medal of Freedom for this!
Posted by: wilder5121 | August 21, 2007, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm
How CONVEEEENIENT!
This administration will toss their own under the wheels when it comes right down to it.
Posted by: George Kause | August 21, 2007, 3:12 pm 3:12 pm
Close, but not quite right… I think that the ultimate failure should go to the ultimate decision maker. Who might that be? History belongs to the bold, at least until the meek inherit the earth.
Posted by: Sean O'Brien | August 21, 2007, 3:16 pm 3:16 pm
Whatever happened to Truman’s, “The Buck stops here?”
Posted by: unshrub | August 21, 2007, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm
Why are the digits for eleven in 9/11 not digits, but some other charachter? ’18 months…’ used the correct characted for the number one, why not in ’9/11′? Just curious…
Posted by: Dennis | August 21, 2007, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm
Tenet received the nation’s highest civilian honor.
President Bush thinks of him as a National Hero.
Something doesn’t add up.
Posted by: Peter Simmon | August 21, 2007, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm
Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright, Sandy Burger, Richard Clark,George Tenet
“bears ultimate responsibility” for failing to create a strategic plan to stop al Qaeda prior to 9/11. Sandy Burger stealing documents before the 9/11 commission report, what does that tell you, he and that whole bunch had something to hide. Qaeda didn’t master mind that attack in the 7 month Bush was in office…Clinton was worthless, look at all the attacks on AMERICA starting with the World Trade center in 93… and they did nothing…..
Posted by: Freddie | August 21, 2007, 3:28 pm 3:28 pm
Wow. This goes beyond neglegence. This is intentional overlooking of known threats to the united states of america. Back in the day, they hung traitors and cospiritors, the least they can do now, is remove from positions of power, any of the people involved in this horrific lapse in security. We can call those responsible ignorant as long as we want, but the truth is, these people are not ignorant, they are on top of more than WE even know and they knew precisely the danger these men possed to the U.S. THIS IS TREASON! NO MORE PUTTING UP WITH OUR LEADERS FEIGNING IGNORANCE! HOLD THOSE RESPONSIBLE ACCOUNTABLE!
Posted by: RADIOHEDGE | August 21, 2007, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm
Why the hell is 9/11 written with two letter L’s twice in this article?
Posted by: Jamie | August 21, 2007, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
Nice. Where does idiot clinton hack Jamie Gorelick fit into the blame when she cemented the division between the CIA and FBI?
Posted by: cheeseytopping69 | August 21, 2007, 3:47 pm 3:47 pm
like the man said…”Heckuva job, Tenet”
Posted by: Voice of Reason | August 21, 2007, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm
Another coverup garbage
Posted by: Nick | August 21, 2007, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm
This wont go over well with the loony left. This means they cant blame Bush for this anymore. What a shame!
Posted by: Duhize | August 21, 2007, 3:56 pm 3:56 pm
Why does this not suprise me? I’m sure it suprises some but watching this unfold for so many years, it doesn’t suprise me one bit, being in government myself.
Posted by: J | August 21, 2007, 4:03 pm 4:03 pm
Too bad the FBI CIA did not share information. Hell even a FEMALE FBI agent had put it all together. The headstrong MALE leadership of the FBI just slushed it off as a female hunch.
Hmmm,… maybe there’s something to this womans intuition, nope; she had all the names AND Facts
Posted by: Joe | August 21, 2007, 4:10 pm 4:10 pm
I just read through the left-wing chatter: Bush lied, good men died, blah, blah. If the libs were not so intent on blaming Bush, they may be able to realize that everyone, and I mean everyone believed the same intelligence data. Now the question is: who was responsible for collecting that data? Answer: George Tenet.
Posted by: Bob Corey | August 21, 2007, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm
maybe Bush can give Scooter Libby the medal of freedom too…can’t wait until Jan 2009, don’t let the door “slam-dunk” you when you leave the whitehouse, you lame duck…
Posted by: StaunchRepublican | August 21, 2007, 4:23 pm 4:23 pm
Well, it certainly clears Bush. Bush was in office only 7 months and the Al Quada were in place and fully trained before he even took office. Too bad Bush wanted to “change the tone” in Washington and kept Clinton’s people in key positions when he should have striped all of Clintons failures out immediately. It is clear that Gorelick, Tenet, and Sandy Berger caused the problem. I still wonder what important documents Berger stole from the National Archives.
Posted by: Bill | August 21, 2007, 4:23 pm 4:23 pm
Who is to blame? How about the people that planned the 9/11 attacks, and those that implemented the plan.
I know it is tough for most whiners to do anything other than blame Bush for everything, but hey…most people are simple minded apes who can barely take care of themselves.
Posted by: Jack Mahogov | August 21, 2007, 4:24 pm 4:24 pm
I thought the terrorists were responsible for 9/11. Why doesn’t someone write a report blaming them?
Posted by: Ralph | August 21, 2007, 4:32 pm 4:32 pm
Of course, in the world of look for another job if you don’t tell Bush what he wants to hear, it is all Tenet’s fault. I’m just surprised it has taken all this time for Bush to make the announcement. It won’t be long now before my history books tell me that they did find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq right after we were greeted as liberators in a war in which
Posted by: Sara B. | August 21, 2007, 4:38 pm 4:38 pm
Wow, the idiot right are in full swing on this column! Blame Clinton, spare my country cowboy Preznit! Blame Clinton!
Freddie at 3:28:07 PM: “Qaeda didn’t master mind that attack in the 7 month Bush was in office…Clinton was worthless, look at all the attacks on AMERICA starting with the World Trade center in 93… and they did nothing…..” What “all the attacks” are you talking about?!?!?!
You idiot. Bush and his “gubnit” were asleep at the wheel their entire first year and 9/11 happened. Instead of blaming Bill Clinton, how about holding your savior’s feet to the fire and be a little more skeptical rather than sheepish.
Posted by: KTM | August 21, 2007, 4:38 pm 4:38 pm
And, why? Why did the Iraq Study Group only look back ten years for motives or esprit de corps between Saddam and Anti-American radicals? Al Qaeda?
Still wonder how any Democrat or anyone can contribute or support Hillary’s candidacy for the reason that she was the mother hen sitting on our homeland political nest when the nineteen moved-in, moved-on, set up home and careers all to seemingly receive the same “you can have your American Dream” blessing from Clintons? After Pearl Harbor those who were sitting in charge at times of planning were removed; isn’t sitting in times of plan initiation and evolution of plan more faultful than just being new presider? I for one, especially in light of this story, cannot believe Hillary’s word choices today.
Posted by: jphogan | August 21, 2007, 4:42 pm 4:42 pm
With any large organization, like the Bush Administration/ White House… what the Top dog or vice-dog want or express as a desire, trickles down. It is only obvious that Bush/ Chaney were caught flat footed on 911, not taking any information from the outgoing administration seriously until it was too late. They used the tragedy of 9-11(undoubtedly with Roves help) to their political advanage…then, grossly abusing the peoples patiotic outrage, going into Afghanistan as only a stepping stone to get Saddam Hussein.
Posted by: Ed Reynolds | August 21, 2007, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm
Another fall guy for the Bush administration?
I guess “just following orders” is not an acceptable defense.
Posted by: bobby stickers | August 21, 2007, 4:48 pm 4:48 pm
On Bush’s watch, he ignored the daily briefing he received, didn’t alert anyone and continued his vacation-as he has taken more than a YEAR off in the last six years, it seems there is NOTHING that will get this guy’s attention-not KATRINA, not the WAR, not the ECONOMY-he’s pretty blase’ about most things-if Al Gore had been permitted to serve as he was elected to do, he would have been CRUCIFIED for such disregard of American security.
Posted by: jeanruss | August 21, 2007, 4:50 pm 4:50 pm
Hopefully we’ve learned from our failures, but it’s ignorant to say it was one person’s fault or to believe we are not at risk from another strike.
Al Qaeda is to blame for this attack, just as Japan was to blame for Pearl Harbor.
Sometime in the future Americans will be harmed again, whether in the US’s borders or outside it. We should be thankful for our liberties, our way of life, and our prosperity. Of course we should try to prevent this kind of attack whenever we can, and learn from any mistakes we make, but we should avoid the politics of fear and revenge from destroying the ideals that made America the great nation it is.
Posted by: seth | August 21, 2007, 4:51 pm 4:51 pm
Yeah? They were caught flat footed on 9/11, they were caught flat footed when Katrina hit, they were caught flat footed on Iraq… where does it end with this administration? The sixteen months can’t go by soon enough for me.
Posted by: Looken | August 21, 2007, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm
So did Bush award Tenet for allowing 9/11 to happen or to keep him quiet?
Posted by: bobby stickers | August 21, 2007, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm
inside job!
inside job!
inside job!
When will people OPEN their EYES!
The best place to hid stuff is “In Plane Sight”
Arabs with box cutters are not at all responsible. The real terrorist is the shame of a president we have. 7..yes 7 of the so called terrorists are ALIVE! Pentagon was hit my a MISSLE not a plane…planes dont leave 16 foot holes.
Posted by: samantha | August 21, 2007, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm
This is a new low for the Bush administration…. or rather what’s LEFT of the Bush administration. Anyone falling for this ought to be shot.
Posted by: Troy Street | August 21, 2007, 4:58 pm 4:58 pm
Clinton should have fired Tenet when he made no effort to kill Osama after Bill ordered him to. But why would Bush fire prosecutors he appointed yet keep a left over CIA director? It smells bad, like there’s something we don’t know…
Posted by: born_7-4 | August 21, 2007, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm
Yup..that darn Tennet. Remember when he canceled the weekly Terrorism meetings in the White House and assigned Terrorism to FEMA? It was just such actions that set up OBL. I remember when he howled “Wag the Dog when BC was chunking cruise missiles into Afghanistan in attempt to kill OBL. Remember his “phony issue” comment? Yup, it was all his fault and HINT HINT..Clinton appointed him.
Posted by: Richard | August 21, 2007, 5:11 pm 5:11 pm
What an utter fraud. Not only was George Bush and the entire administration warned about an impending attack, Tenet personally ORDERED the REPEAT of the particular warning to Bush to be delivered PERSONALLY– and it was met with a contemptuous dismissal ‘ok you’ve covered your ass’.
Tenet did his job. The $40 billion security system did its job. Our country was waiting for a leader to act.
George Bush and Dick Cheney, Mr. Experience already , bear total responsibility for CRIMINAL NEGLEGENCE–
THEY DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING when warned.
None of this is is so much as MENTIONED in the dishoset reporting.
Posted by: dj | August 21, 2007, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm
Bush got the Aug. 6th memo entitled “bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside US” while in Crawford, TX. Did Bush heighten any security systems with the Pentagon, NORAD, borders, waterways, transportation systems, shipping?
Duh, no. So who bears ULTIMATE responsibility for 9/11?
Posted by: danan | August 21, 2007, 5:21 pm 5:21 pm
Well I knew they’d blame it on someone, apparently Bush/Cheney/Condescending Rice et al can do no wrong.
End sarcarsm…..
Posted by: gymgal | August 21, 2007, 5:22 pm 5:22 pm
Absolutely shameful!
Posted by: Mary | August 21, 2007, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm
Does this mean that FEMA director Brownie will be getting a Medal of Freedom too? He only oversaw the deaths of poor, Black people in New Orleans, not investment bankers in the Twin Towers, though, so maybe not!
Posted by: Oshkosh John | August 21, 2007, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm
BUT IT’S O.K. NOW THAT SOMEONE HAS TAKEN THE BLAME, THEY CAN GET A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON.OR CLAIM EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE. BUT AT LEAST THERE’S ANOTHER SCAPEGOAT.
Posted by: NEWZJUNKY | August 21, 2007, 5:30 pm 5:30 pm
Oh this just has to be correct.. because there is NO way George W. Bush could be such an mess-up… ROTFLMFAO!
I feel sorry for Tenet.. he backed the wrong horse at the wrong time.
Posted by: Troy Street | August 21, 2007, 5:31 pm 5:31 pm
Read Clark’s Book.
The Bush administration was all cold war and did not think Al-Qaeda was a threat. And What about John O’Neil who knew the attack was coming and left the FBI to later die at in the world trade center working security there. We knew it was coming. Either, Bush did not think his friends in Saudi Arabia would attack us, or he did not care if they did. People were screaming the house is on fire before 9/11. But, Bush and his inner circle wanted nothing to do with it. Then Bush stayed in the class for 7 mins knowing our country was under attack.
Posted by: Doug | August 21, 2007, 5:32 pm 5:32 pm
Total BS,…GW Bush and his father, are to blame
Posted by: foster | August 21, 2007, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm
Bob Corey wrote “Now the question is: who was responsible for collecting that data? Answer: George Tenet”. So he gets medal of honour for not collecting the data from Bush. There’s the failure to recognize on Bush’s part of incompetance. May be incompetence breeds incompetence.
Posted by: AgainstIncompetentLeaders | August 21, 2007, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm
It’s like Clinton was the doctor, while the patient was going septic – and at quittin’ time he said: I’m out of here, but I had alot of fun!
(Remember he did say how much fun he was having as president in spite of the fact that we had been attacked repeatedly by Al-queda.)
Pres. Bush, the new attending political surgeon, steps in to find the patient in full blown septsis – and the patient goes into cardiac arrest.
Posted by: BellaMia | August 21, 2007, 6:08 pm 6:08 pm
Hindsight, Hindsight, Hindsight. I wonder who will be blamed when the asteroid hits and the mega tsunami strikes…
Posted by: Turk | August 21, 2007, 6:09 pm 6:09 pm
This is like saying that Billy Graham was responsible for the attempt on the Pope’s life. Bush doesn’t know when to stop lying even when it’s obvious, even to a slow thinker, that is exactly what he did, is still doing, and will continue to do until he is back where he belongs – cleaning up tree branches in Crawford.
Posted by: Rickeyron | August 21, 2007, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm
One only need look at the historical failure and incompetence of bushco to know exactly where the real blame lies!
Forget the August 6th PDB that they ignored and look at colossal mismanagement of them at every turn!
Bill Buckley was right … Invading Iraq was/is the worst policy decision in U.S. history and that Bush has single handedly destroyed the republican party!!
Posted by: CarlV | August 21, 2007, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm
The beauty of this all is that the Clintons buffaloed dumb ole W into destroying the republican party by making the worst policy decision in U.S. history!
Good job george!
Posted by: CarlV | August 21, 2007, 6:17 pm 6:17 pm
Now who again appointed Tenet? Are the same people who said the President Bush bears the ultimate responsibility for his FEMA appointments going to speak out against President Clinton?” This administration will toss their own under the wheels” Tenet is Clinton’s own, as are many who were still in the CIA at 9/11. And the planning stages all occurred under President Clinton and Tenet’s watch. 44 attacks and thousands dead by al Qaeda’s hand in attacks on 4 continents prior to “Mission Accomplished”, less then half the attacks and 1/10 the casualties on 2 continents since then.
Posted by: retired_subsailor | August 21, 2007, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm
I noticed the lead pic in the article showing Bush and Tenet….why not show Clinton and Tenet when Tenet accepted his appointment as Director?
Posted by: retired_subsailor | August 21, 2007, 6:20 pm 6:20 pm
Posted by: Peter Simmon | Aug 21, 2007 3:24:11 PM
Qaeda didn’t master mind that attack in the 7 month Bush was in office..
__________________________________
ROFL
Isn’t September still the 9th month of the year?
I’m pretty sure 9 out of 10 bush apologists agree …
Posted by: CarlV | August 21, 2007, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm
Now it’s Mr. Tenet’s fault. The Bush Administration has blamed about everyone that’s ever breathed on this planet with the possible exception of Mother Teresa. But I’m sure her day of reckoning will soon be upon us. I would suggest that the President with arms around Mr. Cheney stand in front of a mirror and with an awakening expression of shock proclaim, “aahhh, here lies two of the culprits.”
Posted by: mongo100 | August 21, 2007, 6:29 pm 6:29 pm
Did any of you playing the blame game even read this article? Or did you just read the headline? Richard Clarke, one of the most outspoken critics of the government’s response to terrorism, states that it is unfair to lay the blame on Tenet. And as for the message that Bin Laden was determined to attack the U.S. – there was NO specific information….. did it mean he was going to attack in 10 minutes or in 10 years? Did it mean that he was actually capable of it? It was a SINGLE message among the THOUSANDS of messages they analyze on a daily basis. Maybe you should all donate your crystal balls to the government.
Posted by: ellsbells930 | August 21, 2007, 6:32 pm 6:32 pm
Clinton responded to terrorist attacks in the 90s. The first Trade Center bombing resulted in a conviction of the criminal involved at the highest level. This conviction was brought about through an FBI investigation, not invading a country that had nothing to do with the attack.
Another attack resulted in cruise missile attacks against the perps. I can remember Republicans crying foul that Clinton was deflecting controversy over the Lewinsky mess.
Clinton received negative fallout every time he tried to get US military involvement in world crises, even Yugoslavia.
Posted by: radiojunkie | August 21, 2007, 6:34 pm 6:34 pm
It’s funny the stupid patriots blame Clinton for Bush’s Iraq war. It’s funny how Bush expects the puppet to be a leader. Mr. President you either get puppets and help you make money or you get real leaders who help the country but not you. You can’t have the cake and eat it too.
Posted by: StupidPatriots | August 21, 2007, 6:35 pm 6:35 pm
When will the Right take blame for this blooming idiot in the White House ?
Posted by: Darla | August 21, 2007, 6:35 pm 6:35 pm
If I could borrow some of Donald Rummy-speak: I think that George Tenet should be ultimately responsible for his failure on the intelligence data on the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (claiming to know the unknown). Whereas I really can’t blame George Tenet for having poor intelligence on possible Al Qaeda terrorist attacks (not knowing the unknown).
Posted by: TheCanadian | August 21, 2007, 6:37 pm 6:37 pm
9-11 was al Qaeda’s fault.
You lefties looking to blame Bush for everything really need to grow up already.
Posted by: Tony | August 21, 2007, 6:49 pm 6:49 pm
Intelligence failures? What about Policy failures; as in wide open borders with the red, white, and blue welcome matt of stupidity rolled out to embrace all comers with an axe to grind. It’s like removing the fencing from around the hen house, then shooting your dog for allowing the fox to eat them.
Posted by: Citizen1960 | August 21, 2007, 6:50 pm 6:50 pm
The CIA was only doing what the White House told them to do. They did not go after al Qaeda operatives because they where told to watch not touch and not to do anything without permission from Bush and Cheney. Bush, Cheney and Bin Laden have been working together since day one and still are. There is a big reason we have not gotten Bin Laden. Why we diverted all most all of our forces to Iraq. Why the Bin Laden family living in the USA where given free pass to leave without before they could be questioned. Who bailed Bush out of bankruptcy in is poor management of his oil company. Who is no bankrupting this country?
Posted by: DFP49 | August 21, 2007, 6:57 pm 6:57 pm
OK..Tenet was choosen by Billy The Slick people come on!!!..Where are the Clinton lovers now ??This is the CIA Inspector General report and not the Pres who is blaming the man so read before getting into conclusions.
Posted by: FAS | August 21, 2007, 7:02 pm 7:02 pm
You people sound really stupid…
Posted by: Me Think You Stink | August 21, 2007, 7:34 pm 7:34 pm
Cheney’s secret information is leaked when trying to coverup their deceit and corruption and put blame on someone else.
After the intellegent officials keep pushing to give Bush information on AL Queda determined to attack inside U.S. , They finally reached him at his ranch just a little while before 911 (one of the 440 days of vacations) and his reply was said to have been said , ok you have delieved your message now you can go.
Ashcroft if you remember stop riding on un-secure airplanes for 5 or 6 months before 911. Rice refuses to be question under oathe about 911 on what they knew and the polices afterwards. This administration hides the true about anything pertaining to 911 or as far as that gones , they hide everything about what the h… their actions & policies are on any thing they do ‘PERIOD”.
Posted by: Pete | August 21, 2007, 7:37 pm 7:37 pm
Can’t we just IMPEACH this amateur resident and get this nation back on track? Forcing the nation tolerate such substandard leadership is DESTROYING us all.
Posted by: Bush LIED | August 21, 2007, 7:44 pm 7:44 pm
Come on guys! As long as Tenet was doing his job and was not critical of Bush this was buried. Recently he criticises the Bush administration and this comes out. One doesn’t have to see a left-wing conspiracy here. If Tenet was still playing along with his masters we’d never have heard of this report.
Posted by: Winston Smith | August 21, 2007, 7:51 pm 7:51 pm
Why does Condi get a pass? She was our National Security Advisor, and we know she saw memos and info warning her about Al Quaeda’s imminent attack? I’m not sure what a National Security Advisor does but it would seem that she would advise Bush and others about steps needed to ensure our national security, and she didn’t do anything.
Posted by: Marilyn | August 21, 2007, 7:51 pm 7:51 pm
I don’t know how any of you can blame Clinton (other than a personal dislike for him or his politics). 9/11 did not happen on his watch. I do not think it would have happened had he been president, either. I also do not think he would have continued to read My Pet Goat while it happened either. Things ran rather smoothly under Clinton and I do not think it was merely coincidence that our country has gone to he ll in a handbasket since Georgie and Company have moved into town.
Posted by: Marilyn | August 21, 2007, 7:53 pm 7:53 pm
The poll questions are incredibly poorly constructed. Thorough research done over the past 6-7 years has shown that collectively the the Bush administration was collectively responsible for the 9/11 coup d’etat by PNAC (aka “terrorist attacks”). Most of America has woken up and no longer buys into any of the rhetoric and daily lies given by our media and the White House.
Posted by: Ginger Winchester | August 21, 2007, 7:58 pm 7:58 pm
Wacko right-wing diehards here STILL supporting the endless incompetence and failures of Bush Jr. and his ilk…HILARIOUS.
Posted by: wilder5121 | August 21, 2007, 8:00 pm 8:00 pm
I disagree with it being Tenet’s fault. I belive the fault rest with whoever the highest ranking person at the FBI who knew young Arabs were taking flying lessons (un-concerned with learning how to take-off or land). That person shoulders ultimate blame in my opinion.
Posted by: MB | August 21, 2007, 8:14 pm 8:14 pm
well, the united states had it’s first attack on the world trade center in 1993. that gave a 8 year heads up warning for us to do something. like, how many years are we supposed to have to get ready for stuff like this!? since it was 8 1/2 years between world trade center attack #1, & attack #2, i would assume that we’re getting ready for something in 2009!!
dave
8/21/2007
Posted by: dave | August 21, 2007, 8:17 pm 8:17 pm
9/11 was an inside job. i thought you all would have known that by now. why do you think a third building exploded? this is just another “report” to keep us “rats” in check by the machine while they keep profiting (cheney, etc.).
Posted by: patrick | August 21, 2007, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm
well, the united states had it’s first attack on the world trade center in 1993. that gave a 8 year heads up warning for us to do something. like, how many years are we supposed to have to get ready for stuff like this!? since it was 8 1/2 years between world trade center attack #1, & attack #2, i would assume that we’re getting ready for something in 2009!!
dave
8/21/2007
Posted by: dave | August 21, 2007, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm
More and more scapegoating. The administration also tried to pin the WMD thing on him with the slam dunk quote. So now Tenet is “officially” and personally to blame for both 9-11 AND Iraq…? It’s a good thing Bush awarded him The Presidential Medal of Freedom. It would be more laughable if it wasn’t so shamelessly ridiculous.
It as if the administration is asserting that it is possible to pin all that blame on one guy. If so, I can think of one guy more obviously deserving of the lions share of the blame because he poorly made all the big decisions that have resulted in an “everything” to blame on him. But if you try to focus that blame on the White House, they cry foul.
Posted by: john | August 21, 2007, 8:25 pm 8:25 pm
I disagree, the ultimate responsibility
has to have been Bush’s, he was warned repeatedly and took no action. Books after books reported how he pooh-poohed
warnings. My own belief is that the Bush
administration ignored the warning on
purpose so that they could have an excuse to go after Sadam Hussein. Even as incompetent as G.W. is, no conscienable leader would have ignored
so many urgent warnings as this administration had been unless it was on purpose.
Posted by: abc | August 21, 2007, 8:37 pm 8:37 pm
Puhleeze! Blame it on Tenet! There is plenty of blame to go around and it starts right at the TOP! LOL!
Posted by: Allan_Krueger | August 21, 2007, 8:41 pm 8:41 pm
It’s all a colossal farce. The nation’s worst sneak attack since Pearl Harbor and not one head rolled. In fact, the one most responsible – DCI George Tenet – gets a Soviet-esque medal out of it with a cush teaching job at Georgetown and a multi-mill book deal ! Our government leaders – all of them – have become ruled by personality and celebrity instead of the principles upon which this country was founded and the Constitutional principles they’ve been sworn to uphold. It’s a bigger shame than anyone’s yet realized with more dire consequences yet to reveal themselves.
Posted by: Hopeless Charm | August 21, 2007, 8:48 pm 8:48 pm
Freddie:
So, by your reasoning the first attack on the World Trade Center should be blamed on George Bush Senior, since it happened very shortly into Clinton’s first term and the groundwork must have been laid before he took office. Right?
By the way, all of the perpetrators were caught shortly thereafter, without invading an unrelated country.
And also by the way, Clinton warned the Bush people about OBL and gave them a strategic plan, but Bush, Cheney, and Co. chose to ignore it, stating that terrorism was not in their opinion a serious threat.
Get a grip.
Posted by: Joe Thompson | August 21, 2007, 9:09 pm 9:09 pm
Condi, nor anyone else got a warning about an “immenent” attack. Anymore than the current “we will attck you” videos that are released by AlQeda weekly
Posted by: scott | August 21, 2007, 9:30 pm 9:30 pm
Tenet was Clinton’s boy but so what?
They both realized the danger posed by OBL
and Tenet passed this on to the new admin.
via a sit down with Condi. Then,as now, she was clueless and ignored the warning.
Posted by: Buzzthis | August 21, 2007, 9:34 pm 9:34 pm
Please lets have a real debate instead of this ” i hate President Bush”. We see right through you.
Step back and look at the atmosphere during the 90s and before 9/11. You know true in your heart who we should blame. And that is us. Not because of who we are but because time and time again we were hit and hit and didn’t take it seriously. And also because of people like those on this blog who can only say it was President’s Bush’s fault. I never seen so many people so full of hate for someone they don’t even know.
Posted by: Eddie | August 21, 2007, 9:44 pm 9:44 pm
Just after his inauguration, Bush
gave the Hart-Rudman report
warning of serious terrorist
threats to Cheney who did
nothing with it.
Bush did not accept on
ideological grounds anything
originating with Clinton. The
respsibility for 9/11
is solely Bush’s
Posted by: Skewerstupidity | August 21, 2007, 9:57 pm 9:57 pm
So who was it as far back as Feb./Mar. of 2000 that told the CIA/FBI to drop all investigations against Bin Laden family members with ties to W.A.M.Y., a previously suspected financier of Al Quaeda??? HINT: Not Tenet… Think about it. Who has been the US champion and protector of the bin Ladens? And who accepted a grub stake from them to start his Texas oil business long before he became a politician? Yep! The Bush-baby.
Posted by: Kidd Charlemagne | August 21, 2007, 10:34 pm 10:34 pm
Why do most of the “9/11″ phrases in this article are actually written as 9/ll (nine, forward-slash, two lowercase letter “L’s”??
Posted by: Jack | August 21, 2007, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm
The last I recall, Norad was not under the command of Tenet and the CIA, nor was the FBI who missed the 19 hijackers who happened to be on their watch lists.
How could Tenet be responsible for 911 when the air defense system had been shut down on that day ?
Where does Bush’s complicity kick in especially when he had connections to the Bin Laden family while at Arbusto, and also was involved in the Aramco pipeline deal which involved going through Taliban territory in Afghanistan.
I would just once like to know why significant happenings along the way are discarded by the media and national intelligence. It is almost like the way the Bush administration handled terrorism-ignoring the obvious information.
Posted by: Harmon Brody | August 21, 2007, 10:49 pm 10:49 pm
Tenet was just a yes man. Bush was the “Decider” who got the briefing entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike the U.S.” but he ignored it because it interfered with his month-long August 2001 vacation. He told the man who gave him the report: “OK, you’ve covered your butt”
An important guy like Bush just couldn’t be bothered with annoying trivia like an impending attack upon the United States. Bush was disgustingly derelict in his duty. Those are the facts, regardless of how much Bushites wriggle and squirm to avoid acknowledging them.
Posted by: Houston | August 21, 2007, 10:50 pm 10:50 pm
Oh give me a break. Funny republicans want to forget all about that August presidential briefing that said that Osama Bin Laden determined to strike inside the USA. Think that could of at least gotten an airport alert? No instead Bush barks at the dude delivering the briefing to get out.
And funny how everyone forgets about Condi Rice dismantling all of the security measures dating back to Truman which allowed agencies to communicate. Funny how everyone forgets about Rice dismissing Clark’s urgent pleas for a meeting to deal with the coming attack. Yeah just blame it all on the guy that isn’t there anymore. Meanwhile Bush vacationed away, ignored the warning & read “My Pet Goat”. This is just another lame attempt to blame what happened on Bush’s watch on the previous administration.
Posted by: DrX | August 21, 2007, 10:57 pm 10:57 pm
Jamie Gorelick, 911 Commission member, set forth a memo known as ‘The Wall’ which effectively placed a communication barrier between Domestic and Foreign Intelligence in 1995. This was done at the behest of her boss Janet Reno and Bill Clinton. The effectiveness of ‘The Wall’ was evident in its preventing the sharing of information found in convicted 911 hijacker zacharias moussaoui’s computer the month before 911 which testimony confirms that would have prevented 911. As unpleasant as it is for liberals to consider, it was on Clinton’s watch that bin Laden issued his Fatwah against the USA and planned, trained and prepared for 911. To Mr. Bush’s eternal credit, he has never once stooped as low as his cohorts across the isle in attacking them for the years of ineptitude that preceeded his 8 months in office prior to 911. It was an American Tragedy.
Posted by: Chef Redondo | August 21, 2007, 11:57 pm 11:57 pm
Let’s stop blaming BUSH for everything. Instead lets try to figure out how we can repair all the damage thats his administration has done. Where do we start?
Posted by: Joe | August 21, 2007, 11:59 pm 11:59 pm
the clintons lied when they told us that saddam was a threat….put of the ‘wall’ to keep domestic and foreign intel from sharing information on the 911 terrorists…. passed the iraq liberation act of 1998 to ensure that war would come for ‘regime change’…while planting false intel through their mole george tenet….and allowing 911 to be planned under their noses and to leave office just in time for it to be executed on bush’s watch…..
Posted by: chef redondo | August 22, 2007, 12:01 am 12:01 am
His Fault? Are we just getting to this fact.I thought this was clear on 9/12.Try not to forget that Tenet is a criminal, Bush is a criminal,cheney,rice,powell,the lot of them.People have died by the thousands since 9/11,and we still give a damn who dropped the ball almost six years ago.
The republican party has stood by and cheered them on.Try to not forget that
Posted by: pete | August 22, 2007, 12:10 am 12:10 am
Tenet, Rice, Bush, Cheney, & all the rest of them ALLOWED 9/11 to happen so they could capitalize on tragedy to further their agenda. We need a truth & reconciliation commission in our very own country. Remember for all time George Bush’s blank look and lack of action when told that America was under attack. He is a disgrace and I hope he hears the screams of all the Americans incinerated while he did nothing.
Posted by: Citizen Mother | August 22, 2007, 12:32 am 12:32 am
BUSH,CHENNY,ROVE,TENNET,RUMSFELD AND EVER SINGLE REPUBLICAN IN THIS COUNTRY AS WELL AS ANYONE WHO VOTED FOR BUSH OR HELPED HIM TO STEAL EITHER ELECTION IS TO BLAME FOR 9-11
IT’S A SIMPLE STATEMENT OF FACT.
HAD AL GORE BEEN IN OFFICE, IT NEVER WOULD HAVE HAPPENED.
Posted by: FV | August 22, 2007, 12:40 am 12:40 am
anything to shift the blame from Bush…whatever
Posted by: D man | August 22, 2007, 12:46 am 12:46 am
Tenent did not have anywhere near the necessary background to be the Director the CIA. He was a pure political appointee without any military or intelligence background or advanced degrees. Check me on this and you will wonder how a former minor aid to a politician rose to such a high post. You can really lay this on Clinton’s doorstep as he gave the CIA such a low priority in his administration and Bush amazingly kept this guy on.
Posted by: Brian Stewart | August 22, 2007, 1:52 am 1:52 am
Tenet is somewhat responsible for not being more aggressive despite Executive policies to kill OBL. However, the true responsibility lies with the Bush admin. for not having any interests outside expanding power and influence throughout a small group of people.
Posted by: Charles | August 22, 2007, 2:47 am 2:47 am
Judging by Mr. Ross’s age, he was, probably, honing his typing skills during the early to mid 60s. Many typewriters of the era did not have a key for the digit “1”. The lowercase “l” was used in it’s place. Old habits are hard to break
Posted by: 11 vs ll | August 22, 2007, 3:19 am 3:19 am
Tenet and his CIA folks tried to warn Condi Rice and George W. Bush during the summer of 2001, but all they got was the big “brushoff’. Bush, at his Crawford, Texas ranch, on August 6, 2001, listened to the CIA liason say “Osama bin Laden Determined to Attack Within United States” and he sent him away with the words, “Okay, you’ve covered your ass.”
Next month, on 9/11, Al-Queda hit the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon. And George Bush and his Administration had done nothing to stop it!
Posted by: radlib1 | August 22, 2007, 5:54 am 5:54 am
Please do not forget Minneapolis Division CIA/Coleen M. Rowley……
and the one word Jundullah.
Thanks
Posted by: jh | August 22, 2007, 6:07 am 6:07 am
The CIA’s inexcusable failure to report to the FBI that two known al Qaeda associates (who were 9/11 hijackers) had traveled to the U.S. comes awfully close to the smoking gun. Sandy Bergler sure was trying to cover up something when he stole thos original docs from the Nat Archives. Even the CIA’s cover-up summary concludes: that “Informing the FBI and good operational followthrough by CIA and FBI might have resulted in surveillance of [the "UBL associates"]. Surveillance, in turn, would have had the potential to yield information on flight training, financing, and links to others who were complicit in the 9/11 attacks.”
All this took place during the Clinton hear-no evil, see no evil late ’90s and Richard Clarke blames Bush? ABC is better than NBC & CBS on these matters, but is still totally in the tank for the Democrats!
Posted by: daveinboca | August 22, 2007, 7:10 am 7:10 am
Sandy Berger sure was trying to cover something up when he stole those documents from the National Archives. And Sandy skated on that, whereas Libby went to jail for what?
Posted by: daveinboca | August 22, 2007, 7:13 am 7:13 am
Since the Bush haters insist on reviving the same old nonsense that Bush should have known 9/11 was coming and stopped it, let’s try to imagine how they would have reacted if Bush had done the following:
1. Deported all suspected al-Qaeda members.
2. Asked Congress to enact the Patriot Act on August 8, 2001.
3. Began tracking the finances of all suspected al-Qaeda’s
4. Put out an international arrest order for OBL
5. Instituted warrantless wire-tapping to identify terrorists.
6. Arrested a “college professor” in Florida on charges that his charity is really a front for al-Qaeda.
In view of how the Bush haters reacted to these actions POST-9/11, the contention that Bush could have prevented 9/11 is IDIOTIC. If he had tried the political left would have stopped him in his tracks and accused him of trying to institute a fascist dictatorship.
Posted by: ApolloSpeaks | August 22, 2007, 7:21 am 7:21 am
Why isn’t the fact that in the summer of 2001, the head of OUR CIA went to Dubai to visit Osama bin Laden while he was in a Dubai hospital getting the medical attention he desperately needed when he was close to death?
Did the head of OUR CIA go there just to wish him well, deliver flowers in person, hold a prayer vigil to Allah, right before 9/11?
All I have to say to those who only get there “news” from the talking heads for the American government via the boob tube or “news” papers……TURN OFF YOUR BOOB TUBE, CANCEL YOUR “news” papers and take that time to RESEARCH, RESEARCH, REASEARCH!!!!!!!! PULL YOUR HEADS OUT OF THE SAND, OPEN YOUR EYES & MIND AND WAKE UP!
Posted by: 911 survivor | August 22, 2007, 8:29 am 8:29 am
Anybody ready to turn out the TENANTS in the whitewash house and retrieve a few dollars of the corrupt largesse they have lived on? burp…
Posted by: daddy | August 22, 2007, 9:37 am 9:37 am
The story goes far deeper than the MAINSCREAM press will ever discover and the “terror pilots” were in training for a very long time. The evidence also says that the July 4th holiday year 2000 was either a dry run or the original plan date but this evidence will be very hard to find or have someone admit…ya think??????
Posted by: daddy | August 22, 2007, 10:03 am 10:03 am
The summery of this report just goes to prove that the American Intelligence Community as whole, needs a massive overhaul. First of all, you don’t put bureaucrats in charge of an agency who’s charter means action. Robert Gates was a failed covert operative. Tenet, for all the lauding he gives himself, was a politician. Porter Goss resigned from field work because he caught an infection. General Hayden is a yes man who bows down to the will of Bush and the Republican leadership. A bureaucrat bows to pressure. Common sense would dictate that someone who was an undercover operative is going to view things differently. They are going to move on intelligence because it’s in the best interests of the country and ultimately, the world.
Posted by: John Siordia | August 22, 2007, 10:11 am 10:11 am
All of these “official” reports about who did or did not do anything pre-9/11, are just more spin and grin for the traitors in the White House, the true perpetrators of that evil day.
Someone prove me wrong, please!
Posted by: Brendan O'Maidian | August 22, 2007, 10:31 am 10:31 am
We wouldn’t have this new information on 9/11 if it wasn’t for the efforts of Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont and his push for revamping the Freedom Of Information Act. He’s about to issue a comtempt citation to the While House for their failure to turn over docuements related to the Warrantless Surveillance Program. I would urge you to visit his website and support his endeavors.
Posted by: John Siordia | August 22, 2007, 10:34 am 10:34 am
Apollo,
The non-neocons would have reacted the same as they are now. The painfully obvious point is that none of the above was needed to thwart the 9/11 attacks.
The info was all there, the president and his staff had ample warning, their was evidence scattered all over the place that other officials were also trying to assert.
If telling the president directly that there is a threat of attack on the U.S. (involving the use of airplanes) isn’t enough to put the nation on high alert, then tell me smart guy, what needs to be done to get our fearless leader’s attention?
And by the way, before you get to your “Clinton, Clinton, Clinton” tirade, didn’t the republican congress fight Clinton every step of the way as he worked to apprehend Bin Laden??
Thanks
Posted by: Neeko | August 22, 2007, 10:36 am 10:36 am
I echo these comments;
have another;
I was in the military during the 90′s,
we practiced for a black op to grab some
“high value target”, but it never happened. I of course, never knew
the whole plan, but, looking back
on it, I am convinced the target was going to be OBL.
Problem is, they never put the plan in action; WHY??
Ask Sandy Berger and Bill Clinton.
These are the Facts:
1993: World Trade Center bombing
1996: Khobar Towers bombing
1998: US Embassies in Africa bombed
2000: USS Cole bombed
2001: After 5+ years of planning, World Trade centers taken down.
Posted by: gray | August 22, 2007, 11:20 am 11:20 am
From prior post; The CIA’s inexcusable failure to report to the FBI that two known al Qaeda associates (who were 9/11 hijackers) had traveled to the U.S. comes awfully close to the smoking gun.
But when you look at the record, from the FBI IG report and account of Ali Soufan, lead FBI investigator on the Cole bombing, you find that the CIA hid from the FBI at least 9 times information the CIA had on Mihdhar and Hazmi, and the fact these two known al Qaeda terrorists were at the Kuala Lumpur meeting where the attack on the Cole had been planned with Khallad Bin Attash, the mastermind of the Cole bombing. But what is more horrific, when this conspiracy feel apart because, “Mary”, a low level FBI IOS agent working at the CIA found the cable that said Hazmi was inside of the US, information we now know was known by 50-60 other people at the CIA for 18 months, the CIA then effectively sabotaged the FBI search and investigation of Mihdhar by hidding from the FBI the photograph of Khallad taken at the Kuala Lumpur meeting for another 8 days. After April 2001, when the CIA knew about this huge attack on the US, they knew by hidding this informtion it would make it all but impossible for the FBI to stop it, and that thousands of Americans would perish.
Posted by: Palo Alto | August 22, 2007, 4:42 pm 4:42 pm
I forget… Are we at war with Eastasia or Eurasia? Someone tell me after our Two Minute Hate, will you?
Posted by: Doug | August 22, 2007, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm
After much thought of 9/11..its hard for me to blame one or the other…its time to remove all of the “butter” its become compromising and stagnate to say the least as to the way all was handled even this war that is killing our men..come on USA take alook ABC…when the house divides than the young die…wake up..at my age I can see where 20 years in any institution you realize that you are no longer in the mind set of the good ole boys…apachecheynne
Posted by: Apachecheynne | August 22, 2007, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm
When Bill Clinton authorized “The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998″In Osama bin Laden’s 1996 “Declaration of War Against the Americans,” Osama cited the U.S. retreat from Somalia in 1993: “You have been disgraced by Allah and you withdrew. The extent of your impotence and weaknesses has become very clear,” he said. “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like te strong horse.” Bin Laden also summed up his perception of Americans in an interview with ABC News reporter John Miller, published in Esquire in 1998:”After leaving Afghanistan, the Muslim fighters headed for Somalia and prepared for a long battle thinking that the Americans were like the Russians. The youth were surprised at the low morale of the American soldiers and realized, more than before, that the American soldier was a PAPER TIGER and after a few blows ….would run in defeat.” The Democrats have all of the weak horses in this race. We don’t need another 911.
Posted by: Chef Redondo | August 22, 2007, 6:28 pm 6:28 pm
The information on 9-11 was passed to the US-officials in advanced, but the officials said that they were not interested.
Benny
Posted by: Benny | August 23, 2007, 10:07 am 10:07 am
Terrorism still wide open! When you have million of illegal’s, tons of drugs coming into this country security is a fantasy
Posted by: drwfll | August 25, 2007, 6:13 am 6:13 am
“Terrorism still wide open! When you have million of illegal’s,”
Are you saying that terrorism is caused by Mexican migrant farm workers?
Posted by: bobby stickers | August 29, 2007, 11:26 am 11:26 am
Red herring. Even if CIA & Tenet had never existed, US air defenses routinely would have blocked the air attacks. Why didn’t they?
Posted by: Gene | September 1, 2007, 12:21 pm 12:21 pm
Richard Clarke bears some responsibility for the 9/11 attack. The policy in the 90s was, passengers should passively remain in their seats during hijacking, cockpits doors were not reinforced, pilots were to acquiesce to intructions from hijackers. Any one of the above three policies would have likely prevented 9/11. Did Clarke change any of these policies. NO. Did he recommend changing any of these policies. Apparently not. Did he recommend Congress change the law so FBI and CIA could share information. Apparently not, but even if the FBI and CIA could share information, it is doubtbul that would have prevented 9/11. However, it quite clear a change of any of one the three policies in place, passenger acquiescence, arming cockpit doors, pilot passivity would have stopped it. Richard Clarke puts a lot of effort in deflecting attention from his utter and complete failure.
Posted by: Peter Carpenter | September 7, 2007, 12:56 pm 12:56 pm