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Home Front: Politix
Report: Tenet Failed to Prepare for al-Qaeda Threat
2007-08-22
Former CIA Director George Tenet did not marshal his agency's resources to respond to the recognized threat posed by al-Qaeda before the Sept. 11 attacks, the agency's inspector general concluded in a long-classified report released today. The report, which Congress ordered released under a law signed by President Bush this month, also faulted the intelligence community for failing to have "a documented, comprehensive approach" to battling al-Qaeda.

Tenet, now a professor at Georgetown University, heavily criticized the report as "flat wrong" in a lengthy statement, saying the judgments are contradicted by a report issued by the agency watchdog just a month before the 2001 attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. CIA Director Michael Hayden also said he did not want to release the report, saying it "would distract officers serving their country on the front lines of a global conflict. It will, at a minimum, consume time and attention revisiting ground that is already well plowed."
Posted by:Fred

#3  POPULISTAMERICA > YOU ARE DESTROYING AMERIKA - YES, YOU. D *** ng it, we want to make it absolutely positively undeniably categorically unequivocally clear to the Amer people -------------------------------------------------------------???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????.................................and don't youse fergit it!
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-08-22 20:51  

#2  DER SPEIGEL > CIA REVEALS ITS ERRORS PRIOR TO 9-11. USCIA knew two of the 9-11 hijackers were in America before 9-11 but failed to inform the FBI. Forgot Muhammed Atta, etal. was at Penn State.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-08-22 20:46  

#1  But I heard on the news this morning that Michael Scheuer is also critical - as if he was (and is) blameless....
Posted by: Nancy Pelosi   2007-08-22 06:39  

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