[STARWISE]

Whole article is a must read.

Hmmm ... no mention of Clinton, Berger, Able Danger.

[STARWISE]

PING ~~!

[TexKat]

Report: Tenet Failed to Prepare for al-Qaeda Threat - Washington Post

[SolidWood]

Hmmm ... no mention of Clinton, Berger, Able Danger.

It's from the AP... Oh and BTW Clinton at least TRIED to get Bin Laden! Well at least according to Clinton.

[BluH2o]

Clintonista strategy ... kick the can down the road.
Let someone else deal with it ...

[Rummyfan]

More and more I wonder... just what the heck do we give all that money to the CIA for?

[NonValueAdded]

And after all that attention that Bill Clinton gave his CIA chief ... why, he met with him what, at least twice during his 8 years in office?

[vladimir998]

Quote: “The CIA’s top leaders failed...to stop al-Qaida ...in the run-up to Sept. 11...”

UNDER BILL CLINTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Say it! Say it! Under Bill Clinton!!!

[Just mythoughts]

Wasn’t there that virtual wall those wall-builders of the Clintons administration built to prevent detection of al-Qaida discovery???? I do not see the best and brightest rising to the top in government these days, only yes men/women like the “Flames” or Wilsons carrying out overt actions against the security of these United States.

[colorado tanker]

So, this is what Tenet got his medal for.

[avacado]

"[Clinton Installed] CIA missed chances to thwart al-Qaida"

[malia]

It seems to me .... clinton that’s bill.... passed a bill or what ever making it impossible for the CIA and other organizations to communicate with each other.

[Joe Boucher]

In other news, The C.I.A. failed to see the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Only spent 1 trillion dollars in preceding decade.

[Tai_Chung]

Re-read the article by replacing CIA with Congress and Pre-911 with today. The article would still be true.

[piytar]

Of course not. You think the MSM is going to say ANYTHING linking Tennet to Clinton at this point? Not a chance in H###.

One (of many things) I do fault GW for: Keeping Tennet, and for that matter most of the top staff at CIA and NSA, on board for the sake of the “New Tone.” How’d that work out, GW? Getting lots of warm and fuzzies from the traitorous Demscum? No? Wow, that was one NAIVE move!!!

[BurbankKarl]

Valerie Plame and Co.

[TexKat]

Statement by George J. Tenet on C.I.A. Report - New York Times

Following is the text of a written statement issued by George J. Tenet, the former Director of Central Intelligence, regarding the public release today of the executive summary of the June 2005 report by the Office of the Inspector General concerning the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001

The latest IG report is equally wrong regarding resources. Although resources available for everything else at CIA went down or stayed flat, counterterrorism resources were going up. The IG report fails to understand where we were starting from or the geopolitical context that the intelligence community faced. We had to try to rebuild a seriously under-funded intelligence community across the board. During the 1990s, as a Community, we had lost 25 percent of our people and tens of billions of dollars in investment compared to the 1990 baseline. The rebuilding of the entire Community was essential to bolstering our counterterrorism efforts and enabling us to address all the intelligence priorities established by the President. For me, however there was no priority higher than fighting terrorism. The IG fails to understand how intensely I pushed the counterterrorism issue because he failed to interview either me or policymakers from either the Clinton or Bush Administrations on this matter. Had he done so he might have learned that I was relentless in seeking additional funding for the Intelligence Community in general and counterterrorism in particular. I wrote the Administration in 1998 and 1999 imploring for more money to rebuild U.S. intelligence. When only a small portion of what I requested was made available, I went outside established channels to work with then-Speaker Gingrich to obtain a $1.2 billion budgetary supplemental for the intelligence community

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/washington/21cnd-tenet.html

[AJFavish]

http://www.allanfavish.com/the_9_11_commission_report.htm

[Trajan88]

nor the “wall builder” Jamie Gorrelic.

[VOA]

The CIA's top leaders failed to use their available powers, never
developed a comprehensive plan to stop al-Qaida and missed crucial
opportunities to thwart two hijackers in the run-up to Sept. 11,
the agency's own watchdog concluded in a bruising report released Tuesday.

This conclusion sounds pretty similar to that of Stephen Emerson,
as related on the "Money Talk" radio show with Bob Brinker this
last weekend.

Emerson said that the managers at the CIA simply sat back and
were too slow (cowardly? ossified?) to utilize the assets at their
behest.

(I'm not knocking the "true believers" at the CIA; I'm sure there
are good folks on the front lines of the 'intelligence war' that
deserve much more recognition, love of their fellow citizens and
retirement pay than they'll ever see.)

[Michael.SF.]

I have yet to hear one rational reason why George Tenent should not have been fired and then held accountable for the failures of the CIA, under his watch, that led to both 9/11 and the ‘no’ MWD’s fiasco.