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CIA Report to Reveal Failures over 9/11
Newsmax ^ | Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2005 | newsmax

Posted on 08/24/2005 11:16:09 AM PDT by ovrtaxt

CIA Report to Reveal Failures over 9/11

NewsMax.com Wires
Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2005
CIA Director Porter Goss personally delivered to Congress the findings of the agency's inspector general report on the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, opening a debate about how much of the highly classified and critical document should be made public.

The report, which congressional officials had yet to review Tuesday evening, is a hard-hitting chronicle of actions taken by individuals and the CIA bureaucracy before the attacks nearly four years ago.

The findings are expected to highlight failures of specific individuals, according to present and former government officials speaking on condition of anonymity. Goss had told Congress earlier that people scrutinized in the report had been given an opportunity to review it and respond.

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The investigation by CIA Inspector General John Helgerson has caused further angst at an agency that has been repeatedly and harshly criticized for intelligence failures before the 9/11 attacks.

The CIA declined to comment on the report's substance, as did the newly created office of the national intelligence director, which oversees all 15 U.S. spy agencies.

The long-anticipated report spanning hundreds of pages was commissioned in December 2002 by a House and Senate panel investigating the 9/11 attacks.

The joint congressional panel didn't assign personal culpability in its findings but asked inspectors general at the CIA and other national security agencies to look into whether anyone in government should be held accountable.

Lawmakers are particularly interested in how the inspector general divides blame between career intelligence officials and the senior appointees who oversaw them, said congressional aides, who spoke on also condition of anonymity because the report is classified.

The report was delivered to Goss in July. California Rep. Jane Harman, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, had questioned for weeks why it hadn't been delivered to Congress. She said the delay fed "the suspicion that maybe people are covering it up."

On Tuesday, Goss himself delivered the report to Congress.

Harman said in an interview Monday evening that the report should be made public so "its thoroughness and accuracy can then be debated."

West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the Senate Intelligence Committee's senior Democrat, also wants to make public as much of the report as possible, said his spokeswoman, Wendy Morigi.

A declassified public version, however, could be months, years or even decades away, as has happened with other intelligence reports. For instance, the CIA's report on the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba was not released publicly until 1998.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cia; ciareport

1 posted on 08/24/2005 11:16:12 AM PDT by ovrtaxt
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To: ovrtaxt

OK...ok...ok...Lets' start putting the blame WHERE it belongs......ISLAMIC TERRORISTS!


2 posted on 08/24/2005 11:18:32 AM PDT by Dallas59 (“You love life, while we love death.” - Al-Qaeda / Democratic Party)
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To: ovrtaxt

Perhaps a day George Tenet will dread.


3 posted on 08/24/2005 11:21:20 AM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: Marine_Uncle

Tenet was kept around for WAY too long. I still don't know why.


4 posted on 08/24/2005 11:22:08 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (Fairtax.org)
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To: ovrtaxt

"The report was delivered to Goss in July. California Rep. Jane Harman, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, had questioned for weeks why it hadn't been delivered to Congress. She said the delay fed "the suspicion that maybe people are covering it up."

Well perhaps someone should asked her what went wrong with Able Danger, speaking of cover ups.


5 posted on 08/24/2005 11:23:52 AM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: ovrtaxt

"Tenet was kept around for WAY too long. I still don't know why."

Perhaps it is simple as GWB likes to place his faith in those that serve and felt GT would serve with honor. And maybe the poor bastard did, and as we are seeing in other cases, DIA/AD,
that it will continue to come down to walls created by Jamie Gorelick and crew, dispite the "smokestacks" syndrome, Curt Weldon eluded to.


6 posted on 08/24/2005 11:27:09 AM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Here we go again...


7 posted on 08/24/2005 11:29:57 AM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: ovrtaxt

"Lawmakers are particularly interested in how the inspector general divides blame between career intelligence officials and the senior appointees who oversaw them, said congressional aides, who spoke on also condition of anonymity because the report is classified."

Yea. The tarts want to get racing tips. (Gold Finger).


8 posted on 08/24/2005 11:33:21 AM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: Marine_Uncle
"Lawmakers are particularly interested in how the inspector general divides blame between career intelligence officials and the senior appointees who oversaw them, said congressional aides

That should be divides blame between career intelligence officials and the senior CLINTON appointees who oversaw them

That's much more accurate.

West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the Senate Intelligence Committee's senior Democrat, also wants to make public as much of the report as possible, said his spokeswoman, Wendy Morigi.

Well, we all know he'll leak as much as he possibly can!

9 posted on 08/24/2005 11:38:07 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: ovrtaxt

The report was delivered right around the time Weldon started talking about ABLE DANGER right? Maybe that was a good reason to delay it if that wasn't included.


10 posted on 08/24/2005 11:44:38 AM PDT by spycatcher
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To: Howlin

"Well, we all know he'll leak as much as he possibly can!"
They don't come much sneaker then the Jay bird.


11 posted on 08/24/2005 11:49:59 AM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: spycatcher; Marine_Uncle; Howlin

I think the Dems want this report to find failures in the Iraq WMD predictions of the Bush Admin.

This is such a silly tactic for the Dems.The existence of Salman Pak, the convoys to Syria, the statements of Clinton Admin officials and Dem Senators all point to a wealth of WMD knowledge. But the current Admin doesn't seem interested in bringing up these obvious facts to defend itself anyway, so who knows what's in this report.

The good news is that the Dems will be on the defensive with the Able Danger infobefore too long. But this report may give the MSM something to crow about in the meantime.


12 posted on 08/24/2005 12:09:58 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (Fairtax.org)
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West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the Senate Intelligence Committee's senior Democrat, also wants to make public as much of the report as possible.

And there is NO DOUBT in my military mind that he will devulge anything to the MSM, no matter the classification, if it paints a negative picture of anyone in the present administration.

13 posted on 08/24/2005 12:17:47 PM PDT by PISANO (We will not tire......We will not falter.......We will NOT FAIL!!! .........GW Bush [Oct 2001])
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".....The existence of Salman Pak....."

Yea, not to mention the Sixty Minutes's tapes of the commercial airliner sitting on blocks at SALPAK with jihadist running through it with AK47's etc., training how to take over airplanes. So much over the years will slowling be brought out and rehashed. Some dimbos will finally wake up and see enough of the real picture to see what GWB decided Saddam had to go.


14 posted on 08/24/2005 12:23:13 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: Marine_Uncle

Saddam was heavily involved with all of the Terroristic acts!


15 posted on 08/24/2005 1:43:23 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

"Saddam was heavily involved with all of the Terroristic acts!"
You can bet your bibby on that one. At least ones that where in his hemisphere of authority. Which seems to be growing a bit of lately. He probably had a 25K check written out for Atta's wife, the day after the towers fell.


16 posted on 08/24/2005 1:56:33 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: Dallas59

OK...ok...ok...Lets' start putting the blame WHERE it belongs......ISLAMIC TERRORISTS!

... and the Gorelick wall.


17 posted on 08/24/2005 5:21:56 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: ovrtaxt

BFLR = Bump for later reading.


18 posted on 08/24/2005 5:22:01 PM PDT by Kevin OMalley (No, not Freeper#95235, Freeper #1165: Charter member, What Was My Login Club.)
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To: ovrtaxt
Well if the liberals want it out it will come out. We already have two names at the top of the list of potential leakers.
19 posted on 08/24/2005 5:25:40 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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