File this under "No shiat Sherlock"
posted by
Wally
2:25 PM
Report says Tenet and CIA were unprepared for al-Qaeda threat and didn't do enough to prevent 9/11
Ya think? Anyone paying attention has been agonizingly aware of this since, oh, say September 15th 2001. Those paying close attention, like former counter-terrorism coordinator for the National Security Council Richard Clarke were aware of it long before 9/11. And now, over two years after a report was completed by the CIA's internal watchdog (and immediately classified by the Bush administration), the rest of the world gets the news too. The CIA's top leaders failed to use their available powers, never developed a comprehensive plan to stop al-Qaida and missed crucial opportunities to thwart two hijackers in the run-up to Sept. 11, the agency's own watchdog concluded in a bruising report released Tuesday.
Completed in June 2005 and kept classified until now, the 19-page executive summary finds extensive fault with the actions of senior CIA leaders and others beneath them. "The agency and its officers did not discharge their responsibilities in a satisfactory manner," the CIA inspector general found.
While blame is heaped on Tenet and his deputies, the report also says that Tenet was forcefully engaged in counterterrorism efforts and personally sounded the alarm before Congress, the military and policymakers. In a now well-known 1998 memo, he declared, "We are at war."
The trouble, the report said, was follow-up. The trouble is always about follow-up with these guys. They talk a great game, but when it comes time to put that talk into action, they sit back and hope that someone else will take charge and do something.
And for this, Bush gave Tenet the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Sleeping on the job
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