[PhilDragoo]

Bill Gertz, BREAKDOWN: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11, Regnery, 2002, page 63:

Turner, who had no professional experience with intelligence, decided to cut 820 positions within the CIA Operations Directorate. The cuts were announced in impersonal notices sent out on Halloween--October 31, 1977. "It has been decided that your services are no longer needed," the termination notes stated. For the Clandestine Service, the cuts were a blow from which it never recovered. Every director of Central Intelligence since then has tried in vain to "rebuild" the operational capability of the CIA.

President Bush opposed by such incompetent quislings who caused 911--QED his re-election is crucial for the Republic.

[ex 98C MI Dude]

Ah, yes, the RIF in Operations. Single biggest screwup in recent intel history.

But thats Bush's fault, right lefties? Or is it Rumsfeld's? Or Rice's? /sarcasm off/

[Fedora]

Thanks--I need to get a copy of Breakdown--keep seeing it and meaning to pick it up.

[SAMWolf]

WOW! A whole 26! We're doomed!