Posted on 08/21/2007 1:27:11 PM PDT by STARWISE
The CIA's top leaders failed to use their available powers, never developed a comprehensive plan to stop al-Qaida and missed crucial opportunities to thwart two hijackers in the run-up to Sept. 11, the agency's own watchdog concluded in a bruising report released Tuesday.
Completed in June 2005 and kept classified until now, the 19-page executive summary finds extensive fault with the actions of senior CIA leaders and others beneath them.
"The agency and its officers did not discharge their responsibilities in a satisfactory manner," the CIA inspector general found.
"They did not always work effectively and cooperatively,"
*snip*
Yet the review team led by Inspector General John Helgerson found neither a "single point of failure nor a silver bullet" that would have stopped the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
*snip*
• The CIA and the National Security Agency tussled over their responsibilities in dealing with al-Qaida well into 2001. Only Tenet's personal involvement could have led to a timely resolution, the report concluded.
*snip*
The report recommended forming accountability boards for the CIA Counterterror Center chiefs from 1998 to 2001, including Black.
• Although 50 to 60 people read at least one CIA cable about two of the hijackers, the information wasn't shared with the proper offices and agencies. "That so many individuals failed to act in this case reflects a systemic breakdown.... Basically, there was no coherent, functioning watch-listing program," the report said. The report again called for further review of Black and his predecessor.
While blame is heaped on Tenet and his deputies, the report also says that Tenet was forcefully engaged in counterterrorism efforts and personally sounded the alarm before Congress, the military and policymakers. In a now well-known 1998 memo, he declared, "We are at war."
The trouble, the report said, was follow-up.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
nor the “wall builder” Jamie Gorrelic.
Here is a link to the full 19 page report by the cia ig. Its quite an interesting read. There are some redactions (seemingly when referring to specific individuals), but its pretty scathing. Check out the dates in the document..and what was done in 01 versus what was (not) done prior to President Bush. Not a whole lot of specifics, but what is there is quite revealing, imho.
https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/Executive%20Summary_OIG%20Report.pdf
Thanks !!
And Billery and George both are politicians.
Actually... He`s not a politician... He is from a rich family... and was raised most of his life in west Texas.... but he is a `country boy`... He speaks his mind, which kills him in politics.. he IS closer to a redneck than me, POLO shirts and dockers, but he still tries to do the best he can to what he actaully has control of. I myself am a patriot of my country and freedom... 4 years USAF, 3 years Army, and 3 years as a deputy sheriff of Texas.. and you cop haters out there can kiss my butt. I never had a big head with the badge.. I only enforced the law; and if juvenile had alcohol (with neighbor complaints of noise).. I would drive there to their house and warn them that if they didn`t lower their noise, I would be back asking for IDs... In my mind, I didn`t want to make a double standard, since I also had done the same thing when I was in high school. Let the kids have fun, as long as they weren`t destructive to others (and no drugs were involved... I still, to this day, HATE any type of drugs.... don`t give me the alcohol is a drug crap either... that`s an excuse.. and alcohol is harmful, but not an illegal drug).
OBL sucking air?! Who cares?! as long as he is not sucking from USAmericans! (America is actually 3 continents...you can figure it out. USA is 1 country...), although, as liberal as it is, I would defend Canada too...
Obliterate the b@stard.. do whatever to make the best we, as a COUNTRY can do to make us/you happy.... Just don`t phuk with our freedom.
Sorry, not all of this is directed at you... but I hope that some others can try to understand what freedom is.
Again, my apologies.. I am not a good debater..
OH... BTW.... 1 of the WORST insults I hear coming from an outsider (Euro).. Yankee!!!! I am NOT a freakin`yankee! I am from the south. NO offense meant toward the NEasterners.. but there is a BIG difference! Freakin` Euros have NO idea about the insult... It`s like me calling an Irishman a Brit.
anyway, I am tired (7am here, with no sleep), sorry for any offenses... :D
MJ
I agree with you. However, if we can get just a bit of the energy that politically aware people have had recently for other issues, maybe we can assist the Congressional leaders to drive their poll numbers even lower.
Gallup poll today: 18% favorable rating.
You might appreciate this little sidenote:
I once asked someone from England if he ws British, and was told (proving one stereotype) “I’m English, actually.” He didn’t want to be thrown in the mix with those other lesser members of the UK!
"If IC Officers had been able to review and analyze the full range of information available before 11 September 2001, they could have developed a more informed context in which to assess the threat reporting of the spring and summer that year."
I have yet to hear one rational reason why George Tenent should not have been fired and then held accountable for the failures of the CIA, under his watch, that led to both 9/11 and the ‘no’ MWD’s fiasco.
It amazes me how often that type shows up, even here.
There is one single failure which the CIA could be held accountable for, and which resulted in the 9/11 failure - that is the general failure of the CIA leadership to totally comprehend the very nature and problems of accurate national security intelligence and to pro-actively design dynamic (always updating) programs for all three components - collection, analysis and assessment, with a key to always questioning - “what are we not looking at and why”; “what views and assumptions that stand in opposition to our own biases (the biases of our analysts) are we refusing to explore”; “do we (our analysts) continue to rely on ‘trusted’ sources (intelligence services of ‘allies’) too much and even against histories that question that reliability (there is a cozy relationship between Langley and a former top, retired U.S CIA executive now working and living in Saudi Arabia, helping them run their intelligence service).
Tenet ran the CIA the way Condi runs the State Department; which is not to run the department but simply to manage its primary official voice (politically spin what is being done whether or not WHAT is being done is achieving or even capable of achieving what the publicly stated goals are) while the permanent government in the department does what it wants to.
Check out the last part of the article:
“Sadly, the CIA’s 9/11 accountability review serves as a sobering reminder that the Bush Administration policies for the past six years have failed to capture or kill Osama bin Laden,” the West Virginia Democrat said. “Nor have the administration’s policies deprived Osama bin Laden and other senior al-Qaida leaders of the safe haven they need to plot against the United States.”
Of course the RATs would find a way to point the finger at Bush.
“And after all that attention that Bill Clinton gave his CIA chief ... why, he met with him what, at least twice during his 8 years in office?”
Exactly! That was my very first thought.
Ping.
I missed that .. thanks for pointing it out. What a snarky, partisan load of poop for a “journalist” to put in print. Jeeze .........
yet tonites world news implied that Bush was involved. They showed a clip of Bush giving Tennet a medal of honor.
you’d think that a capable pubbie
would be able to drive this home to hillary.
I heard on talk radio that the CIA leaks information conveniently. It’s very sympathetic to liberals. Presidents have to tread lightly around the CIA because damaging information can be leaked about them (true or not). Look at the recent cases involving probes of the white house and staff...all liberal led cases.
It was the CIA. The rest does not matter. This is what happens whenever you create an unaccountable secret society of ivy leaguers accountable to no one.
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