Posted on 06/12/2015 3:06:43 PM PDT by PROCON
The Clinton administration had bankrupted the intelligence community and refused to let the CIA prioritize anti-terrorism over other major priorities in the late 1990s, leaving the agency stretched too thin in the days ahead of the 2001 terrorist attacks, former Director George J. Tenet said in a 2005 document declassified Friday.
Mr. Tenet, who was head of the agency at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks and has taken severe criticism for not anticipating and heading them off, said in the document that he took the threat of Osama bin Laden very seriously, and put major effort into trying to penetrate al Qaeda, beginning as far back as 1998.
In one revelation, Mr. Tenet says those efforts averted off an earlier “major attack” planned by al Qaeda for some time in 1999 or 2000. The document gives no other details.
The document was a response to an inspector general’s draft report that had accused Mr. Tenet of failing to give al Qaeda enough attention in the months leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks. But Mr. Tenet said he did take steps, amid all the other work CIA was also required to do.
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Oh, and I'm sure the alphabet channels will be talking about it all weekend.
Liberals: B...B...B...Bush was President....George Bush caused 9-11......and Cheney too!
everytime I think about that day and then I have to see that silly looking needle in the sky that replaced those beautiful buildings, I want to cry. drove past the ruins on the detour to work for several years. I never dreamed that seven years later we’d elect one as President
You’re right: Friday afternoon news dump!
I was anticipating the SCOTUS ruling on Marxist Care.
Whooo. Drip, Drip, Drip! It’ past time that Republicans fight like Democrats, in the arena of OPPO RESEARCH!
With the internet working 24 hours, Friday document dumps don’t hide much for very long, anymore.
Thanks for posting! There is so little posted on Hillary and I can’t seem to read enough on her shenanigans.
Shirley, she can’t actually win! Who’s Shirley? :) teasing, here.
Thanks PROCON.
God love ya!! LOL!!! GRReat post!
THAT goofy movie is my hubby’s very favorite. He has no sense of humor, and laughs out loud at that guy every time! Go figure? Thanks! Rita
It was fracking that really cause it.
Nice, Liz. Stupid question here. Is that Time mag current, or an oldie from the “toon” era?
In 2008 I asked a cousin “How can you vote for a muslim just 7 years after they attacked us?”
His response was “He’s not a muslim.”
I love this one, too.
The Clintons leave the WH arm-in-arm after Bill got lewinskied.
There's no business like Clinton business. They smile when they are low.
The list, Ping
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Former director: Clinton administration bankrupted CIA ahead of 9/11
George J. Tenet is just another bureaucratic Mandarin.
The US intelligence communities 16 agencies have two budget components, the National Intelligence Program (NIP) and the Military Intelligence Program (MIP). Of these, the MIP is classified, but the NIP covers so many agencies, that as a consolidated budget it doesn’t *need* to be classified.
The bottom line is that Bill Clinton didn’t substantially cut the budget of the CIA. Which means two things:
1) Tenet is trying to shift blame from the CIA making another profound screw up. Which, in truth, it shouldn’t be blamed for anyway, because the 9-11 operation was pretty tight as far as intelligence goes, and didn’t telegraph its plans.
2) Tenet is pushing for a big budget increase for the intelligence community, because many in Washington are tired of their grotesque expenditure of funds to accomplish nothing of real value while turning America into a police-intelligence state. So sorry, we’ll give you the money you need to spy on the bad guys, but the rest is going to be cut back.
Has he wised up since?
He should have read his book
SCOTUS rulings are usually Tuesdays and/or Thursdays.
If it’s Tuesday, who’s announcement will that ruin?
Oh, Trump’s!
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