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Here is an interesting old AP article:

WASHINGTON (October 25, 2000 12:49 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - The Pentagon's top intelligence expert on terrorist threats in the Persian Gulf region resigned in protest the day after the USS Cole was attacked in Yemen, members of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Wednesday.

Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said the official quit because of what he believed was an unjustified lack of attention by his Pentagon superiors to terrorist threat warnings he had provided before the Oct. 12 attack on the warship.

The two senior retired U.S. military officers chosen to head a Pentagon investigation of the security practices of the Cole - Adm. Harold Gehman Jr. and Army Gen. William Crouch - are making plans to travel to Aden. Quigley said they met Monday at the Pentagon with Defense Secretary William Cohen, who told them their main goal is to improve the military's ability to protect itself against terrorist attack.

All mouth after the fact. Cohen wasn't paying attention to national security, he was only paying attention to international relations as the tied into his golden parachute.