I honestly feel that terrorism works because you can not predict/prevent it ... no matter how vigilant you are, assholes will killya!!!
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/newly-released-records-show-cia-in-house-feud-over-inability-to-prevent-911-attacks/ > Newly-released records show CIA in-house feud over inability to prevent > 9/11 attacks > > Top CIA officials fought bitterly in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001 > attacks over whether U.S. intelligence agencies could have done more to > stop the deadliest terrorist strikes in American history, documents > released on Friday show. > > The once-secret documents include a more complete version of a 2005 report > by the spy agency’s inspector general, which found that the CIA did not > have a comprehensive strategy or marshal adequate resources to combat al > Qaeda before hijacked planes hit New York’s World Trade Center and the > Pentagon on 9/11. > > A redacted summary of that report was first made public in 2007. > > But the documents released by the CIA on Friday also reflect the arguments > of former CIA Director George Tenet and his lieutenants that U.S. > intelligence was intently focused on al Qaeda and leader Osama bin Laden. > > At stake in the years-long dispute are the legacies of former top CIA > officials and the agency itself. > > None of the documents focus directly on how President George W. Bush and > his White House dealt with the al Qaeda threat after taking office in > January 2001. Some former officials, including Bush counter-terrorism czar > Richard Clarke, have said Bush did not initially make al Qaeda a priority. > > In a heated June 2005 letter to then CIA Inspector General John Helgerson, > Tenet rejected Helgerson’s critical draft report. > > “Your report challenges my professionalism, diligence and skill in leading > the men and women of U.S. intelligence in countering terrorism,” Tenet told > Helgerson. > > “I did everything I could to inform, warn and motivate action to prevent > harm,” he wrote. “Your report does not fairly or accurately portray my > actions, or the heroic work of the men and women of the Intelligence > Community.” > > After the bombings of U.S. Embassies in East Africa in 1998 and the USS > Cole in October 2000, Tenet said, he warned President Bill Clinton “to > expect from five to fifteen attacks against United States’ interests.” > > Tenet has previously said that he developed a plan to go after al Qaeda in > 1999, and worked to increase U.S. intelligence funding, slashed during the > 1990s. > > “I said when the executive summary was made public eight years ago that > the IG’s report was flat wrong,” Tenet said on Friday. “Nothing in the > additional material just released changes that judgment in the slightest.” > > The documents, which former CIA officials pressed the agency to release, > include a July 2005 memo from 17 top officers of the CIA’s Counterterrorism > Center disputing Helgerson’s report. > > Helgerson was not immediately available for comment. > > The documents can be found *here.* > <http://www.foia.cia.gov/collection/declassified-documents-related-911-attacks> > > *(Reporting by Warren Strobel; Editing by Bernard Orr)* > > > > > > > __._,_.___ > ------------------------------ > Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected]> > ------------------------------ > > > Visit Your Group > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmNTVhN2hqBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0MzQyMDEwNTQ-> > > > [image: Yahoo! 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