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CIA Missed Chances to Thwart al-Qaida
AP via Comcast News ^ | 8/21/07 | KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer

Posted on 08/21/2007 4:30:35 PM PDT by SERKIT

WASHINGTON - 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," the report stated.

(Excerpt) Read more at comcast.net ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alecstation; alquida; alreadyposted; cia; clintonlegacy; gorelick; gorelickwall; missedopportunity; sandyberger; searchcia
Curt Weldon's pager should be going off...
1 posted on 08/21/2007 4:30:38 PM PDT by SERKIT
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To: SERKIT

Old news! Regurgitated!


2 posted on 08/21/2007 4:31:45 PM PDT by golfisnr1 (Democrats are like roaches - hard to get rid of.)
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To: SERKIT

C.I.A. the gang that couldn’t shoot straight, or do much of anything really well.


3 posted on 08/21/2007 4:41:39 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: SERKIT

I can’t believe this is being presented as news by Bombcast.

Declassify! haha Clintonistas... What goes around comes around...

Hey COM=LAST: Reading List:

Countdown to Terror: The Top Secret Information that Could Prevent the Next Terrorist Attack on America...And How the CIA has Ignored it by Curt Weldon.


4 posted on 08/21/2007 4:42:14 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: SERKIT
You mean the humans who run the CIA made MISTAKES?????

SHOCKING!

5 posted on 08/21/2007 4:42:20 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Atheist pro-lifer)
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To: SERKIT
Now please point out where WJC failed in his duties. If you are going to tell a story, include ALL the details. That way you have more credibility.

Oh, I forgot, you don't worry about details.

And hindsight is always the best, right?

6 posted on 08/21/2007 4:42:58 PM PDT by LasVegasMac (I've reached the age where happy hour is a nap.)
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To: Joe Boucher
...or do much of anything really well.

Except make money.

7 posted on 08/21/2007 4:43:16 PM PDT by gotribe (I've been disenfranchised by the GOP.)
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To: SERKIT

Somebody said it best.

“There are no spies or Republicans here in the CIA”


8 posted on 08/21/2007 4:44:39 PM PDT by Cripplehawk
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To: SERKIT

Tenet should be in jail.


9 posted on 08/21/2007 4:45:25 PM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: SERKIT
Image hosted by Photobucket.com do I really have to say it???

10 posted on 08/21/2007 4:45:41 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist)
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To: SERKIT
They are screwing the hell up nonstop - this ain't nothing new

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

11 posted on 08/21/2007 4:46:25 PM PDT by expatguy (New and Improved ! - Support "An American Expat in Southeast Asia")
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Picture in article is Hayden - UNBELIEVABLE.

Tenet TENET tenet GUILTY


12 posted on 08/21/2007 4:48:25 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: LurkedLongEnough

When Tenet was making the rounds following the publishing of his book, he revealed what a second-rater he his. Until then, most of us knew very little about him.


13 posted on 08/21/2007 4:52:21 PM PDT by carola
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14 posted on 08/21/2007 4:54:14 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: SERKIT

Well maybe if al-Qaida was stopped we wouldn’t get Bush to be our war time President in the war on terror.


15 posted on 08/21/2007 5:00:24 PM PDT by ex-snook ("But above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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To: Joe Boucher

The CIA needs to be revamped from top to bottom. It has become an arm of the Democrat Party and pretty much useless for gathering useful intelligence. I have heard the field offices in the Mid East are full of Clintonoids who don’t know their butts from a pile of turnips and are lazy to boot. I have a feeling the average foreign operative of the CIA is like your average reporter, they do their best work sitting in a hotel lounge with a couple martinis in front of them.


16 posted on 08/21/2007 5:04:53 PM PDT by attiladhun2 (Islam is a despotism so vile that it would warm the heart of Orwell's Big Brother)
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