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U.S. ignored warnings, former FBI official says
Federal law agencies fail to coordinate and plan, terrorism authority
says
10/24/2001
By CAROLYN BARTA / The Dallas Morning News
Despite more than a dozen terrorist attacks around the world since
1992, the United States failed to recognize impending disaster
because its federal law enforcement is a "dysfunctional montage," a
retired FBI official said Tuesday.
"Why didn't we know about September 11? We were deaf, dumb, and
blind. We were asleep at the switch," former deputy FBI director
Oliver "Buck" Revell said at a Press Club of Dallas luncheon.
The bureau's former counterterrorism chief blames federal officials
and the American public for not taking the terrorism threat seriously
enough.
Though arrests were made in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing,
authorities failed to take out the bombers' supporting network. And
he said Americans were too fixated on the O.J. Simpson trial to pay
attention to the Trade Center trials, the most informative
international terrorism trials in this country.
Mr. Revell said federal law enforcement should be restructured and
refocused under a Cabinet-level homeland defense secretary who
has authority to consolidate law enforcement activities currently
conducted by 140 agencies under 14 Cabinet officials.
A former FBI special agent-in-charge in Dallas, Mr. Revell said
terrorist dangers have been spelled out to Congress and various
commissions during the Clinton administration.
"But nothing's been done to put together a coherent homeland
defense," he said. "There is no strategic planning, shared mission,
or coordination" among agencies dealing with global organized crime
and terrorist activities.
President Bush tried to bring order to the disjointed operation when
he appointed Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge as head of a new Office of
Homeland Security.
"It doesn't matter how many homeland czars we have," Mr. Revell said.
The question is: Does he have the authority to command law
enforcement agencies?"
He noted that the United Kingdom, Canada, and France have officials
in charge of such a homeland defense ministry.
The U.S. attorney general, he said, wears too many hats to deal only
with homeland defense issues.
Other needs to counter terrorism threats include a greater emphasis
on human instead of technological intelligence and an expedited
process for deporting undocumented immigrants, Mr. Revell said.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service is hamstrung by
regulations and a system that grants more due process rights to
suspected undocumented immigrants than other countries, he said.
Now an international security consultant, Mr. Revell recently told a
U.S. House International Relations Committee hearing that, to prevent
terrorism, "we need the political will and we need public attention
for more than 24 hours."
Online at:
http://www.dallasnews.com/attack_on_america/dmn/stories/STORY.e9bc540b
fe.b0.af.0.a4.110e.html
© 2001 DallasNews.com
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