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Note: Bolding and the note in parentheses added. This report, total cover up that it is, is only 'out' because of the persistent efforts and demands of Oregon Senator Ron Wyden... * CIA Unprepared for 9/11, Report Says *New York Times online evening digest Aug. 21, 2007 by David Stout WASHINGTON, D.C. — The former head of the Central Intelligence Agency, George Tenet, recognized the danger posed by Al Qaeda well before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but failed to adequately prepare the C.I.A. to meet the threat, according to an internal agency report that was released in summary form on Tuesday. Tenet was sometimes too occupied with tactics instead of strategy, and he was lax in promoting an information-sharing environment within the C.I.A., the agency's Inspector General's office said in the report. An inspector general's team that reviewed the agency's performance found that C.I.A. officers "from the top down" worked hard against Al Qaeda and its leader, Osama bin Laden, before the 9/11 attacks. "They did not always work effectively and cooperatively, however," the team concluded, in what amounted in part to sharp criticism of Tenet's management skills and style. "The team found neither 'a single point of failure' *nor a 'silver* *bullet' that would have enabled* *the intelligence community to predict* *or prevent the 9/11 attacks,"* the inspector general's office said. "The team did find, however, ' failures to implement and manage important processes, to follow through with operations, and to properly share and analyze critical data." *"The agency and its officers did* *not discharge their responsibilities* *in a satisfactory manner,"* the report said at one point. The document was *completed in June 2005* *but* was *kept classified until now.* *No C.I.A. employee violated the* *law, nor did any of their errors* *amount to misconduct,* according to the review team led by Inspector General John Helgerson. Tenet, who resigned from the C.I.A. in 2004 and was succeeded by Porter J. Goss, has defended his and his agency's actions, and he did so again on Tuesday. The C.I.A.'s anti-terrorism efforts were embodied in "a robust plan, marked by extraordinary effort and dedication" long before Sept. 11, 2001, Tenet said in a statement. *"Without such an effort, we* *would not have been able to give* *the president a plan on Sept. 15,* *2001,* that led to the routing of the Taliban, chasing Al Qaeda from its Afghan sancturary and combating terrorists across 92 countries," Tenet said. The current head of the C.I.A., Gen. Michael V. Hayden, issued a statement making clear that he did not favor publication of the inspector general's report because, he thought, it would "consume time and attention revisiting ground that is already well plowed." The report was released as part of an arrangement with Congress, which recently endorsed the recommendations of the independent, bipartisan commission that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks. The 9/11 commission had concluded that "a failure of imagination" had made intelligence agencies unable to fully discern the growing peril of Al Qaeda (yet the ONLY person who DID -- with Tenet even saying before 9/11 that his 'hair was on fire' because of the threat of an Al Qaeda attack -- is the very one now BLAMED for 'failures' !!!) and that communication lapses within the C.I.A. and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and between those agencies had hobbled efforts to "connect the dots" and effectively pursue Al Qaeda terrorists. ------- (Note: The leaders at the top of both agencies made SURE the dots were NOT connected beforehand -- for instance, one FBI supervisor turned down SEVENTY requests by '20th hijacker' Moussaoui to look in his computer after his arrest before 9/11 !!!). ------------------------------ AOL now offers free email to everyone. 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