Wednesday, August 22, 2007
CIA report: 'systemic failure pre-9/11'
Former CIA chief, George "Slam Dunk" Tenet receiving the Medal of Freedom from President Bush in December 2004.
From Newsweek:
"A long-suppressed internal CIA report on pre-9/11 failures includes important new information about intelligence community squabbling and government fumbling in the months before the terror attacks.
An executive summary of the report, prepared by the agency’s inspector general’s office in 2005 and finally released Tuesday under orders from Congress, is unquestionably embarrassing for former agency director George Tenet and many of his top deputies. According to the report’s findings, the CIA under Tenet’s leadership repeatedly blew opportunities to disrupt the Al Qaeda network—and possibly even penetrate the 9/11 plot itself—because of “mismanagement,” a lack of strategic direction and a “systemic breakdown” within the agency’s Counter-Terrorism Center (CTC)."
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Update: G. Dubs on Iraq - still deluded!
Labels: 9/11, George Bush, George Tenet, GOP incompetence, War on Terror
