Posted on 10/20/2010 5:29:50 AM PDT by nuconvert
WASHINGTON – Warnings were ignored, security was lax and good judgment was lacking, leading to one of the worst tragedies in CIA history, when a double-agent suicide bomber killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan last December
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Ya think.....
...and FT Hood?
...and the underwear bomber?
...so many people turning their heads and no one is responsible. Hope the AMERICAN people can absorb another two years of irresponsibility.
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“roughly a month before the bombing, officials at the Jordanian intelligence service in Amman raised concerns with an American CIA officer there about al-Balawi’s loyalties as an operative, Panetta said”
“The Jordanians felt al-Balawi was trying to lure the Americans into an ambush. But those suspicions were dismissed by the American intelligence officer in Jordan as bureaucratic maneuvering inside the Jordanian intelligence agency, and the warnings were not passed on to Kabul, Khost or Washington.”
“Yet Leon Panetta said no one will be disciplined or fired. He blamed the bombing on what he called “systemic failures,” which meant Jordanian intelligence warnings about the bomber weren’t shared and sufficient security measures weren’t taken”
“systemic failures”
PC codespeak for “most of the blame lies with those who died or were maimed and maybe some arrogant CIA assholes in Jordan and DC who are too “valuable” or politically connected to unmask and fire.”
What a high price to pay for hard lessons on the perils of being PC in war.
“PC codespeak for “most of the blame lies with those who died ...”
yes & no. Obviously, he should have searched.
But see my post #4.
and maybe some arrogant CIA assholes in Jordan and DC who are too “valuable” or politically connected to unmask and fire.
read my post #5 to the end
You're getting a lot closer to the truth there. The base chief had an "analysis" background not an "operations" background and was in effect an affirmative action beneficiary. She ignored basic security procedures against the advice of more experienced operations people who were there.
Like the US military the CIA has been subourned by the "affirmative action/diversity" culture of the Federal Government. Competence is subservient to connections, gender and race.
maybe your “and” should have been an ‘or’ if you didn’t mean to blame the dead and wounded.
If they had been properly warned about the Jordanian’s warning, he would have been searched for sure, or not even allowed on base.
I was speculating that the investigation is being wrapped up with “no blame” because some of the dead and wounded already paid the price for their mistakes, and probably some of the living are being left off the hook for typical agency political reasons... promoted to other desks, and moved to other stations. If they were GOP appointees they probably would have been outed by the NYT.
bingo
sadly for her children who were left without their mother and other agency survivors left bereft
again, a high price paid for PC, but the charade goes on and on
Oh, my my -- there it is. Trophy AA hire, untouchable.
Well, I'd trouble her to go face each of those families in turn and apologize for getting their men blown up.
Which won't have done anything, either, for our relationship with a very friendly King (product of Sandhurst) or his ministers and officers.
I read in a foreign newspaper bam bam had them executed to mollify Karzai for the death of some civilians the CIA killed. Kids?
the base chief was killed, probably the primary target
she left behind several very young children and a husband
as I recall she made her bones with a brilliant analytical team in locating and using predators to destroy terrorists
Sadly she was too naive to conceive they could get to her and her team. Naive is not what makes a good FOB chief.
She was killed in the attack herself. If you're looking to place blame look much further up the chain of command in the Operations Directorate.
That is pretty terrible to contemplate
At worst I’d have thought bambi’s installed State Dept culture of apologetics, groveling, “dialogue” and being “observant” of muslim/cultural customs like not insulting a guest (by searching him, especially in the presence of women) was a big factor in this fiasco
I was stunned myself at first, but then again, no, he killed or had killed those boys in the choir in Chicago what are a few lives to the great bam bam
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