As I've said on other threads, he's just making the rounds of the talk shows plugging his book. There's a whole industry now based on the fact that if you attack the Bush administration you get free publicity from all the talk shows and a good place on the table in Barnes & Noble.
It's a marriage of left-wing politics and shameless greed. This guy is hoping to strike it rich.
the CBS story explains more than once that OBL was dangerous for 8-10 years PRIOR to 911. This guy was fired from leading the OBL team in 99 and brought back on 912. All the rest of his story makes the CIA look very bad.
I haven't read Imperial Hubris yet, but I plan to. Scheuer's "Through Our Enemies' Eyes - Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America" is pretty good. It was essentially written prior to 9/11 but was published in January, 2002, I believe.
Imperial Hubris may be wrong-headed. I won't know until I read it. Scheuer knows what he's talking about. He may be wrong, but we need to understand the other view-points, IMHO.
To all those aruging that "if Scheuer is so smart, then why hasn't he found OBL and claimed the reward?". How about making a coherent argument? You demean yourselves and this august forum with such a childish retort.
this guy knows that W will clean up the CIA and that is what 's got his panties in a tear. OBL is a concern NOW not then! Time to dismantle the clintonista bureaucracy thae CIA has become.