1 posted on
02/21/2004 3:36:26 PM PST by
Pokey78
To: Pokey78
bump
2 posted on
02/21/2004 3:38:14 PM PST by
VOA
To: Pokey78
This is, after all, a matter that should be handled by the police.
3 posted on
02/21/2004 3:40:06 PM PST by
js1138
To: Pokey78
CIA Director George J. Tenet Why is this guy still employed by the CIA?
4 posted on
02/21/2004 5:11:41 PM PST by
csvset
To: Pokey78
"On the front lines in Pakistan and Central Asia, working-level CIA officers felt they had a rare, urgent sense of the menace bin Laden posed before Sept. 11. Yet a number of controversial proposals to attack bin Laden were turned down by superiors at Langley or the White House, who feared the plans were poorly developed, wouldn't work or would embroil the United States in Afghanistan's then-obscure civil war. At other times, plans to track or attack bin Laden were delayed or watered down after stalemated debates inside Clinton's national security cabinet."
5 posted on
02/21/2004 5:46:12 PM PST by
FairOpinion
(If you are not voting for Bush, you are voting for the terrorists.)
To: Pokey78
"One of the bin Laden unit's analysts confronted Tenet. (after the embassy bombings in 1998) "You are responsible for those deaths," she said, "because you didn't act on the information we had, when we could have gotten him" through the Tarnak raid, one official involved recalled her saying.'
7 posted on
02/21/2004 5:50:48 PM PST by
FairOpinion
(If you are not voting for Bush, you are voting for the terrorists.)
To: Pokey78
People who spent their time researching Bin Laden recognized the grave threat he posed, and nobody listenend to them!
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"When Black took over, the bin Laden unit had about 25 professionals. Most of them were women, and two-thirds had backgrounds as analysts. They called themselves "the Manson Family," after the crazed convicted murderer Charles Manson, because they had acquired a reputation within the CIA for wild alarmism about the rising al Qaeda threat.
Their reports described over and over bin Laden's specific, open threats to inflict mass casualties against Americans. They could not understand why no one else seemed to take the threat as seriously as they did. They pleaded with colleagues that bin Laden was not like the old leftist, theatrical terrorists of the 1970s and 1980s who wanted, in terrorism expert Brian Jenkins's famous maxim, "a lot of people watching but not a lot of people dead." Bin Laden wanted many American civilians to die, they warned. They could be dismissive of colleagues who did not share their sense of urgency. "
8 posted on
02/21/2004 5:53:23 PM PST by
FairOpinion
(If you are not voting for Bush, you are voting for the terrorists.)
To: Pokey78
10 posted on
02/21/2004 6:04:19 PM PST by
FairOpinion
(If you are not voting for Bush, you are voting for the terrorists.)
To: Pokey78
11 posted on
02/22/2004 10:46:25 PM PST by
FairOpinion
(If you are not voting for Bush, you are voting for the terrorists.)
To: Fedora; Cindy
12 posted on
08/25/2006 7:24:08 PM PDT by
piasa
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