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C.I.A. Details Errors It Made Before Sept. 11 (Jan. 2000 CIA knew of two hijackers)
NY Times ^
| 8/21/2007
| MARK MAZZETTI
Posted on 08/21/2007 7:54:42 PM PDT by tobyhill
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posted on
08/21/2007 7:54:45 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
To: tobyhill
January 2000 would have been during who’s administration????
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:01:06 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Political Correctness Is Going To Get Us All Killed)
To: tobyhill
We’ve known this—the CIA’s failure to track the two hijackers—since Septermber 12.
Tenet’s absurdly self-serving book that blamed everyone but himself makes me despise him even more. He really should have gone to jail for criminal negligence.
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:02:24 PM PDT
by
denydenydeny
(Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:02:43 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
To: tobyhill
Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the current C.I.A. director, and his predecessor, Porter J. Goss, have declined to seek disciplinary action against Mr. Tenet and others named in the report.Oh, why bother. The bureaucrats reign supreme.
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:03:13 PM PDT
by
Rudder
To: tobyhill
Tenet was doing his usual “dodge and weave” to try and excuse his sorry ass.
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:03:45 PM PDT
by
evad
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Not sure but I think it was the Zipper-meister’s.
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:04:21 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
B.J. Bill an His tool Tenet, What a cost to The United States the Democrates has been. What fools vote for these people?
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:05:45 PM PDT
by
reefdiver
(The sheriff of Nottingham collected taxes on behalf of the common good)
To: Rudder
I wonder if one of those 50-60 agent’s name is Plame or Wilson?
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:05:53 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Tomorrow’s NY Times lead editorial will still blame the problems in the 90s on Bush...
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:07:53 PM PDT
by
joonbug
To: tobyhill
I don’t know how this 9-11 stuff ever got by super-secret, “covert,” secret agent Valerie Plame. After listening to what the DemocRATS say about her, one would think she would have picked up on it before 9-11.
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:08:08 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(When you start seeing FR as a "hate site," it's time for you to go to rehab.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
This is also a good time to ask if the President’s wife was working on the important issues of the day as all this was happening, or baking cookies?
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:08:24 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
To: tobyhill
They couldn’t tell the FBI cause of freaking Gorelick’s wall...
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:08:43 PM PDT
by
stylin19a
(Go Bears !)
To: ElkGroveDan
Not sure about the cookies, but she darn sure wasn’t running the house.......
;-)
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:11:36 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Tracking The Flyin' Imams Since 11/20/06)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
And it must be remembered that Clinton came out and endorsed the opponent of Weldon, the leader of the Able Danger investigation.
And it must be remembered that former head of the NSA Sandy Berger stole documents from the 9/11 archives.
Clinton's head of the NSA stealing 9/11 documents, need I say more!
To: SandRat; All
Y’all passed your history exam.......
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:15:32 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Tracking The Flyin' Imams Since 11/20/06)
To: stylin19a
I know they couldn’t tell the FBI but then that puts the burden on them if they knew something and didn’t stop it even at the expense of violating the law. That is the job of the CIA, to protect the US number one. It was an unfortunate part of reality that falls on Gorelick’s head in the end but the other reality is something should have been done.
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:18:52 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
To: All
The report cited the C.I.A.s failure to pass intelligence about Mr. Mihdhar and Mr. Hamzi to other agencies as potentially significant. The C.I.A. had identified the men in January 2000 when they visited Malaysia, but never notified the State Department to put them on the terrorist watch list. Others throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s failed to act not just CIA personnel.
Peter Lance's book, TRIPLE CROSS: How bin Ladens Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI - and Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him, names them.
He has the best explanation why 9/11 happened: virtually all personnel in key positions were busy covering their butts for one goof-up after another. Simple as that as best I can understand it from his interviews. I've heard several including a couple of three-hour interviews.
Some terrorist connections were ignored because to act on them would jeopardize other cases. LE personnel who pushed the terrorist threat too hard were screwed. Lots of actionable shenanigans IMO.
I did not buy the book, Mr. Lance in his interviews was too quick to blame "Bush 1" and "Bush 2" while, when pressed, acknowledging that "President Clinton" is partly to blame.
Nevertheless, Mr. Lance documents events throughout the 1990s that were practically screaming, "Hey! over here, over here!" But alas. . . .
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:26:34 PM PDT
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: tobyhill
“something should have been done”
There was a major breakdown somewhere. The wall part sounds like more of an excuse, or reason for one.
To: tobyhill
I don’t disagree...but this “summary” snapshot appears devoid of ANYTHING Clinton.
That’s not possible.
The Tenet & Hayden of this summary are Clinton’s Tenet & Hayden, not Pres. Bush’s Tenet & Hayden.
Tenet was DCI beginning 1997
Hayden was the head of NSA starting 1999.
Goelick was Deputy Attorney General of the United States.
The time frame in question was Clinton...somehow the news articles will try and connect this to Pres. Bush....
or the report will get buried.
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posted on
08/21/2007 8:35:15 PM PDT
by
stylin19a
(Go Bears !)
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