As expected, the New York Times avoids mentioning the roles played by Bill Clinton and Jamie Gorelich.
Posted on 06/10/2005 5:59:54 AM PDT by OESY
The F.B.I. missed at least five chances in the months before Sept. 11, 2001, to find two hijackers as they prepared for the attacks and settled in San Diego, the Justice Department inspector general said in a report made public on Thursday after being kept secret for a year. Investigators were stymied by bureaucratic obstacles, communication breakdowns and a lack of urgency, the report said.
The blistering findings mirror those of the independent Sept. 11 commission last summer and a joint Congressional inquiry in 2002 but they also provide significant new details about the many bureaucratic breakdowns that plagued the Federal Bureau of Investigation before the attacks and are likely to fuel questions about the bureau's efforts to remake itself. The Sept. 11 commission had access to an earlier version of the inspector general's study and incorporated parts of those findings in its final report.
In the case of the San Diego hijackers, for instance, the report disclosed that an F.B.I. agent assigned to the Central Intelligence Agency wanted to pass on information to the F.B.I. about the two men in early 2000 - 19 months before the attacks - but was blocked by a C.I.A. supervisor and did not aggressively follow up. That set the stage for a series of bungled opportunities in an episode that many officials now regard as their best chance to have detected or disrupted the Sept. 11 plot....
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Hey c'mon. They only had five chances. Maybe they needed 6 chances.
Sounds like Richard Clarke was grossly incompetent as this was his job at the time.
PC kills.
Bingo!!!
The NY Times once again proves itself to be the propaganda machine of the democrat party, delusionally pretending to be a newspaper of record.
Well...they did crack a 20 year old Chicago mob murder a few weeks ago.
She still has the power.
Seems awfully low, since the crack FBI of the 90's was so busy tracking down vicioous terroists like: the Branch dividians, and Randy Weaver. You think that just maybe while they were looking for those kooky Christian, the Islamofascist were given a free hand to roam about and plan. HUMMMMMM
Ping!
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