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Tenet and Clarke both KNEW about Operation Bojinka, and hence were uniquely in a position to alert the new administration about the airliner missile threat. The Gorelick-Reno 'Wall' would have prevented a lot of things. But it was not what stopped them from warning GWB/Rice etc. about Operation Bojinka. The consistent testimony is that they in fact DID NOT SO WARN THEM Operation Bojinka. In my book, this is an admitted dereliction of duty which I believe is truthful, and of immensely grave import as to the fitness of these two.

After all, as Rush has pointed out, the threat was deemed a big deal secretively by Beezelbubba. A threat such that he appointed a commission to 'study' the problem. Typically, he appointed bozo Al Gore to head this investigative commission which produced a whole slew of recommendations for airline security...WHICH WERE NEVER ENACTED. Instead, they were DEEP-SIXED under the Xlinton administration...which was not about to queer the economy over obviously what Xlinton deemed only a mere possibility of such an attack. Call it simple negligence if you will...although I wouldn't. Xlinton left it as a time-bomb for the next administration...and with his agents in place to throw sand in their eyes...they never mentioned AlQueada's Operation Bojinka AT ALL to the new guys.

This is just too coincidental. In the ordinary course of things you would expect one or the other to correct an omission, ...either Clarke or Tenet to have alerted the new administration's National Security Advisor or the President himself to this issue, but not BOTH to simultaneously stay mum on the issue. But they did.

Damn peculiar.

This has crossed my mind on a number of occasions. Clarke and Tenet, the two men who should have provided a smooth transition on the counterterrorism front and everything from 9-11 to Iraq can be boiled down to intelligence failures.

Problem is that on a gut-level I think Tenet was a stand up guy. He may either be the best actor in history or the job may have been too much for him. Clarke on the other hand is a puke.

A difficult place this time is for George Tenent.

At least he goes out with the praise of his President,
Former CIA Director James Woolsey got burned down by Emperor Clintonius...State Dept and Pentagon going for James's throat,
Congress...pissed at the monies spent on The Iraqi Bay of Pigs fiasco...the talking hand puppet known as Ahmed Chalabi.

In some ways..Tenets misfortune mirrors Woolsey's.
How do yo turn off a thing going south.
How do you save your honor..when others have decieved you..and you are connected to them.....even on the periphery.

So many debacles from Emperor Clintonius's time....damage still running into the Bush Admin.

Congress headed off a huge fiasco concerning the Chinese Ballistic Missile threat...*The Rumsfeld report.
CIA asleep at the wheel again...
Hansen,Ames...Global Crossing,Fibre optics grid,compromised intel..monies to account for,
then the second level damage...American firms selling technology to China.

Chalabi again...more damage.

Could the main problem be the bookends stance of State Dept and Pentagon?
Is any CIA director doomed by this reality?