She's talking about the lack of cooperation between foreign and domestic intelligence gathering. Failures allowed suspected Al Quada members from being tracked as they entered, left, and re-entered the country.
She said: As terrorism threats increased in late 90s, the intelligence communities treated everything as priorities, didn't distinguish between most and least important needs.
Panel Goss introduces, with all their titles:
Warren Rudman, Judge Louis Freeh, Mary Jo White, Dr. Paul blah blah, (didn't catch it), With this many on the panel, even if they are sworn in, won't get grilled good enough to suit us. "I do" they swear. "yuck yuck", I say.
Opening statements: (I'll recap without barf alerts) Rudman: I want to talk about roles of intelligence communities for the 21st Century. Nevermind, Rudman is going to boast how brilliant he and Gary Hart were in the study they did for the congress, before they knew who would be elected in 2000.
Rudman says our conclusion was we needed a Homeland Security Agency. ..Because we were aware of an increased threat from terrorists...it was obvious.
(((Maybe the news channels will flip to show the hearings live when Freeh testifies. Rudman's opening statement is such a self-serving bunch of crap, my brain shut down. )))
I've appeared before congress..first time in 1980 before Rudman when I was an agent.
'bipartisan leadership I've always commended" BS
outstanding support for law enforcement BS
First of all, I express condolences to victims of 9-11 and all terrorism, I have strived every day to ensure that people we protect are safe. And men and women of law enforcement, are appreciated by people here, and they lay down their lives.. THIS IS TIME FILLING BALDERDASH!!!
(((Get on with it Freeh!!))) (He's talking about watching FBI agents remove the bodies on the USS Cole. It was an act of war. . He watched FBI agents removed human remains at Khobar Towers too. Act of war. Same FBI people did these tasks, and were protected by Marines as they worked. They ifted through ruins of our embassies too. These also were acts of war.
Same FBI agents did the same things at first World Tower too. I watched this too.
I visited families of these victims.
On June 2001, shortly before I left the FBI victims family members of Khobar Towers came to me at FBI headquarters to thank me. Most moving day of my public service.
my 26 years of public service.
I want to give over view of terrorists threat. and give limitations of FBI before 9-11.
Terrorism = inevitable. We can't prevent it all. No country ,no country, especially a democracy, can prevent the inevitable attacks.
Intelligence community and FBI did not have sufficient information to prevent 9-11 repeating Moeller's statement to the committee that 9-11 couldn't have been prevented.
The terrorists didnt break laws, acted like us, like Americans, we couldnt have found them. They didn't have their own computers. In short, terrorist exploited loopholes in our security systems. Nothing they did triggered alerts.
On the Phoenix memo: predictive value must be evaluated , "bits of information we had can be viewed like a sip of water coming out of a fire hydrant"
Nothing I've seen, nothing I know about, could have prevented 9-11.
I want to applaud George Tenet
(((CYA and CYA the CIA too)))
Those bad old terrorists, they gonna exploit all our shortcomings.
sheeeeet!! Freeh is even giving kudos to Clinton and Gore for a study from back in 1997!! I don't want to criticize the FAA, but while you are going after the CIA and FBI, don't forget the FAA.
FBI allocations were insufficient in counter terrorism. We didn't have enough agents.