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Here's all I can gey of the Atlantic piece:

The Atlantic Monthly | December 2004

The Agenda
Verbatim

How Not to Catch a Terrorist

A ten-step program, from the files of the U.S. intelligence community
by Anonymous

.....

uring the recent Senate confirmation hearings for Porter J. Goss, the new CIA director, Senator Dianne Feinstein read a provocative paragraph from a letter that had been sent to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. The gist of the letter was that key pre-9/11 intelligence failings were the result not primarily of budgetary, structural, or organizational problems (as suggested by the official 9/11 Commission Report) but, rather, of bad decisions by individuals—"unelected, unaccountable officials who made an art of outlasting their elected superiors." What made the letter particularly notable was its author: a twenty-two-year CIA veteran named Michael Scheuer—now better known as Anonymous, the author of the books Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror (2004) and Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America (2002)—who headed the Agency's bin Laden unit from 1996 to 1999.

The full text of the letter, which for the first time lays out ten crucial and specific failures by the intelligence community in the run-up to 9/11, has never appeared in print. The Atlantic has acquired a copy, key sections of which are reproduced below.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200412/anonymous

so will he be later found floating in the potomac river as was former cia director colby?

that was so funny: one day in the los angeles times, p. a30+ there was a small story about how the former director was missing from his vacation home. he was writing a book.

a couple of days later, also on the back pages of the a-section, his body was found floating in the potomac near by!

it was if the river had stopped flowing for several days.