[BlueSky]

It is shocking: The Bush administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/11 until after the election, and this one names names. Although the report by the inspector general's office of the CIA was completed in June, it has not been made available to the Congressional intelligence committees that mandated the study almost two years ago.

"It is infuriating that a report which shows that high-level people were not doing their jobs in a satisfactory manner before 9/11 is being suppressed," an intelligence official who has read the report told me, adding that "the report is potentially very embarrassing for the administration, because it makes it look like they weren't interested in terrorism before 9/11, or in holding people in the government responsible afterward."

When I asked about the report, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), ranking Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, said she and committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) sent a letter 14 days ago asking for it to be delivered. "We believe that the CIA has been told not to distribute the report," she said. "We are very concerned."

More: The Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket

[Mrjinglesusa]

I find it interesting but not at all surprising that no one is defending the Bush Administration on this.

[icruise]

Cue SpliffDaddy: "We don't care."

[BlueSky]

Originally posted by Mrjinglesusa:
I find it interesting but not at all surprising that no one is defending the Bush Administration on this.

Give 'em time; they have to get the proper Loyalty Oath papers in order.

I kept running into this story on the web today. It'll probably hit the Big Time News� in a day or so. Then someone will post this again, someone will hit them with the timeline, hilarity will ensue.

[idjeff]

"the report is potentially very embarrassing for the administration, because it makes it look like they weren't interested in terrorism before 9/11"

Yeah, very embarrassing...how embarrassed was the previous administration that left office 9 months before 9/11? Do you people think that the universe began when GWB stepped into the Oval Office?

[Wiskedjak]

Originally posted by idjeff:
... the previous administration that left office 9 months before 9/11 ...

Quoted for emphasis

[idjeff]

Originally posted by Wiskedjak:
Quoted for emphasis

Ok, what's your point?

[BlackGriffen]

Originally posted by idjeff:
Yeah, very embarrassing...how embarrassed was the previous administration that left office 9 months before 9/11? Do you people think that the universe began when GWB stepped into the Oval Office?

Maybe because the Clinton administration actually was interested in terrorism? Just look at Richard Clarke's account: when Clinton got a warning that there was a terrorist plot around the millennium, the administration immediately started holding frequent high level meetings. They referred to it as "shaking the trees" - trying to get information out of the bureaucracies. That's something that the Bush administration doesn't mention - it was their job to coordinate information that the different branches of government were not allowed to share directly.

Gore recently characterized the infamous PDB tagline as (roughly) "more shocking than any he had seen in PDBs he saw 6 days a week as vice president for 8 years."

This issue is a $hitstorm waiting to happen.

BlackGriffen

[idjeff]

Originally posted by BlackGriffen:
Maybe because the Clinton administration actually was interested in terrorism? Just look at Richard Clarke's account: when Clinton got a warning that there was a terrorist plot around the millennium, the administration immediately started holding frequent high level meetings. They referred to it as "shaking the trees" - trying to get information out of the bureaucracies. That's something that the Bush administration doesn't mention - it was their job to coordinate information that the different branches of government were not allowed to share directly.

Gore recently characterized the infamous PDB tagline as (roughly) "more shocking than any he had seen in PDBs he saw 6 days a week as vice president for 8 years."

This issue is a $hitstorm waiting to happen.

BlackGriffen

Hmmm...ok, then how long did the planning for 9/11 take? Do ya think it was more than 9 months? Or did the previous administration say on GWB's inuagaration day "heh, it's not our problem anymore...we knew this was in the works and we would've done something about it if our boy Gore were elected, but since Dubbya got elected, we'll just sit here and let his administration take the fall for it"?

Blame should be accross the board...neither administration did enough

[Anders]

Originally posted by idjeff:
Hmmm...ok, then how long did the planning for 9/11 take? Do ya think it was more than 9 months? Or did the previous administration say on GWB's inuagaration day "heh, it's not our problem anymore...we knew this was in the works and we would've done something about it if our boy Gore were elected, but since Dubbya got elected, we'll just sit here and let his administration take the fall for it"?

Blame should be accross the board...neither administration did enough

You should read Clarkes book then you would get a more...nuanced look at it.

Neither administrations did enough or 911 wouldn�t have happened. But on GWBs inauguration a plan had been laid to do something to Osama, the words "DO SOMETHING ABOUT OSAMA RIGHT AWAY" had been sprayed on the walls of every office in the white house but that was completely ignored for the "Maginot line" idea that star wars II is.