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Nov. 1 issue - The CIA is keeping the lid on a hard-hitting report about agency officials who might be held accountable for 9/11 intel failures. The report identifies a host of current and former officials who could be candidates for possible disciplinary procedures imposed by a special CIA Accountability Board, sources familiar with the document tell NEWSWEEK. The report by the agency's inspector general's office was completed last June. But it has not been made public or sent to the two congressional oversight committees, which first asked for the review more than two years ago. Officially, the agency's position is that more work needs to be done. In a recent private letter to CIA Director Porter Goss, House intelligence committee chairman Peter Hoekstra and ranking Democrat Jane Harman contrasted the CIA's failure to turn over the report with the Pentagon's ability to provide an exhaustive investigative report on the far more recent Abu Ghraib scandal. But Goss shows no inclination to release the document any time soon. When an account of the suppressed report surfaced on the Los Angeles Times op-ed page last week, NEWSWEEK has learned, Goss's top aide ordered the agency's Office of Security to conduct a leak investigation. "Everybody feels it will be better off if this hits the fan after the election," said one agency official. The 9/11 Commission was refused access to the report, Philip Zelikow, the commission's executive director, told NEWSWEEK. But the panel's staff was allowed to review the inspector general's investigative files. The inspector general's report -- which, sources say, is more pointed than the 9/11 panel's report -- is not the only critical intelligence report that won't be seen by the public until after Election Day. Two Senate intelligence committee investigations -- into whether the White House misused prewar intelligence about Iraq and whether a special Pentagon unit manipulated intel about Iraq-Al Qaeda links -- won't be finished until the end of the year at the earliest, say committee sources.
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its interesting they are more concerned about the public knowing about this (the leak) than they are about what it contains that they want to keep from us.
time to turn on the lights...cockroaches hate lights.
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