New Terrorist Assault 'Almost a Certainty,' 9/11 Probe Finds

CNSNews.com ^ | 12/11/02 | Melanie Hunter

[Jean S]

Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - Results from the congressional inquiry into alleged intelligence failures leading up to the 9/11 terrorist attacks released Wednesday indicate a number of systemic problems with U.S. intelligence gathering, analysis, sharing, and response. The report was introduced with a somber warning from the co-chairman of the Joint House-Senate Intelligence Committee probe. "It is almost a certainty that, in the coming months, Americans will face another attempted terrorist assault; an assault that could quite possibly be on the same scale as that of September the 11th, 2001," Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.). "It is a certainty that such an attack will be attempted," Graham continued. "The question is whether we'll do a better job of intercepting it before it kills more people than we did prior to September the 11th." Graham made those remarks prior to releasing the declassified version of the Joint Committees' findings and recommendations. "The important point is that the intelligence community, for a variety of reasons, did not bring together and fully appreciate a range of information that could have greatly enhanced its chances of uncovering and preventing Osama Bin Laden's plan to attack these United States on September 11th, 2001," the committee's report states. More to follow

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Ummmm ... Senator .. we already know this .. got anything else to report

Yes. As in, "Are you doing anything useful to prevent this?"

[dagnabbit]

...my wife is an airline flight attendant and she just about had a heart attack going from Houston to Miami with three Arabs that she said just kept looking around and acting strange.

I hope you turned her in immediately to the ACLU, CAIR, etc for her vicious profiling of these innocent passengers.

[Mo1]

Yes. As in, "Are you doing anything useful to prevent this?"

Well if I understand correctly .. he wants to start up another agency

[DoughtyOne]

I think it's abundantly clear that there isn't a weapon in our military forces' arsenal that they wouldn't turn on US citizens given half a chance. Look at the number of tanks and hueys they loosed on the Branch Davidians. Further I think they are just itching to make this point again.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the comments. I agree with you.