GERTZ RELEASES 'BREAKDOWN' DOCUMENTING DEEP INTELLIGENCE FAILURES: political correctness cited

DRUDGE REPORT ^ | 8/25/02 | MATT DRUDGE ALERT

[Liz]

WASHINGTON TIMES reporter and bestselling author Bill Gertz has entered in to the fight of his life -- as he exposes, in unprecedented detail, America's intelligence failures.

Bureaucrats with politically correct policies have left the United States dangerously exposed, warns Gertz, chapter after chapter after chapter in his book, BREAKDOWN, which streets Monday.

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The CIA bragged in the summer of 2001 that it has Bin Laden's terrorist group on the run, Gertz reports.

[BREAKDOWN rocked on to AMAZON's Bestseller's at Number One over the weekend.]

The intelligence failures of September 11 were the result of institutional, systemic and cultural problems within the U.S. intelligence community, made up of more than a dozen agencies, Gertz charges, after obtaining highly classified documents and dispatches from within the CIA, the FBI and other national security agencies.

From BREAKDOWN:

An internal letter from CIA spies sharply criticizing the politically correct policies of CIA Director George Tenet.

Details of a classified U.S. intelligence conference in March 2002 that revealed major weaknesses in intelligence six months after September 11.

Exclusive intelligence showing linkages between Iran and the al Qaeda terrorists, based on a secret meeting in January 2000 in Malaysia.

The book takes the reader inside bin Laden’s intelligence organization, based on highly classified documents.

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The CIA demanded to meet with Gertz's publisher, REGNERY.

The agency pleaded with the publisher not to reprint the leaked documents -- but the context of those docs have remained in the book, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Meanwhile, one senior Bush administration source challenged Gertz's patriotism for making public such sensitive information during wartime.

"Do we really need a book for sale in every store in America that outlines our weaknesses?" asked the administration source, who asked not to be named for this report. "If Mr. Gertz is trying to embarrass the country, I would simply ask, 'What is to gain?' And where is his loyalty?"

For his part, Gertz hopes his outline of dramatic intelligence failures [which cross several administrations] serves as a wake up call to citizens who watched helplessly as their nation was attacked by terrorists last year.

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[cricket]

Cannot think of single problem that confronts our Country today, whose roots have not sprung from the bed of Liberalism. . .

[Liz]

........ping.............

[Liz]

So, so true.........

[ninenot]

In this case, more specifically, Frank Church's theoretical birdbrained droppings implemented by Bill Clinton's 'what's in it for me?' crass selfishness.

Yeah, they are libs--but it was Nixon who invited Red China to the table--babykillers and slavemasters with world-domination on their minds. Nixon a liberal?

[uncbob]

Yeah, they are libs--but it was Nixon who invited Red China to the table--babykillers and slavemasters with world-domination on their minds. Nixon a liberal?

Well he sure as hell was not a conservative and National Review led the charge condemning him

He won in 72 because McGovern was even more left wing

[Young Werther]

I saw a part of the interview on "Meet the Press". Russert couldn't sway Gertz into saying that it was Bush's fault. Gertz focused on the weenies at CIA and FBI. The bureaucrats were the problem.

Probably gonna be an interesting read!

[cricket]

"Yeah, they are libs--but it was Nixon who invited Red China to the table--babykillers and slavemasters with world-domination on their minds. Nixon a liberal?"

. . .no Liberal for sure. . .but there is something to the wisdom of 'know thy enemy' to which Nixon did subscribe to.

[bvw]

You are wronng is instant case -- the roots go back to Chester A. Arthur, (and farther -- as long as many have set up in groups) but Chester's time is a most significant point.

The root is in fact, the neverending, but futile and even mayhaps evil effort of men to try to avoid difficult and energetic arguments at the point of practise. To worship at an altar of bipartisanship. To believe in the folly of a golden ox called "civil service".

[Liz]

Gonna stand in line, if need be, to get my copy........

[Dog Gone]

Cannot think of single problem that confronts our Country today, whose roots have not sprung from the bed of Liberalism. . .

So true. It's a shame it takes a book to reveal that.

[hole_n_one]

[cricket]

"In this case, more specifically, Frank Church's theoretical birdbrained droppings implemented by Bill Clinton's 'what's in it for me?' crass selfishness. "

. . .of course, Clinton's 'what's in it for me' is right on the money. . .so to speak.

[KC Burke]

how about a book report ol' boy

[Boyd]

there may be a bit more to 'it'...

[Liz]

I'm organizing an effort to get Bill Gertz nominated for a Pulitzer prize......

[CPT Clay]

bump for later read

[stevem]

Nixon a liberal?

Nixon was one of the most liberal presidents in the history of the US. He liked people to think he was conservative because he knew where his voter base was. Yet try as I might, I can't think of anything he ever did as president that was conservative. Here are just a few things that spring to mund without the benefit of a documented review:

Wage/Price controls...take gold away as backing for money...reduce military spending in the middle of a war...finish Johnson's job of turning DC into a spending machine...deliberate government waste to prop up the economy...sign OSHA into law...revenue sharing with lots of DC strings attached...do anything necessary to prop up the USSR financially...bring Red China to the table...provide the worst plan anyone ever had or could hope to have in losing a war that never should have been lost...the geberal belief that there is nothing anyone can do for self as well as Nixon could arrange to have DC do it...

This goes on and on and on. If someone could find some conservative thing Nixon ever did that was deliberate, I'd really like to know what it was.

[Vidalia]

Screw the hell out of that "administration source".

Gertz is bringing to light what many have known for over a decade, that the armed and dangerous government alphabet agencies will go to the ends of the world and into anyone's house to cover up and protect themselves from any substantial evidence that they degenerated into small cultures unto themselves.

The agencies are pure AUTHORITY with NO RESPONSIBILITY...

[LibertarianLiz]

"If Mr. Gertz is trying to embarrass the country, I would simply ask, 'What is to gain?' And where is his loyalty?"

Where is Gertz's loyalty??? Where is the loyalty to their country of the imbeciles running these federal agencies? Is it to their country; or to political correctness? I fear Mr. Gertz is correct and we are still ripe for another terrorist attack.