CIA didn’t do enough to stop 9/11, report finds

[IDemo]

Agency watchdog says officials lacked comprehensive plan to stop al-Qaida

Associated Press

WASHINGTON - 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.

“They did not always work effectively and cooperatively,” the report stated.

Yet the review team led by Inspector General John Helgerson found neither a “single point of failure nor a silver bullet” that would have stopped the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20378187/

[Captain Hilts]

1. Neither did NSA, DoJ, DoT, NFL, Boy/Girl Scouts of America, Kiwanis Club...

NO ONE did. There were so many weak links in the chain.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Bullshit - Louis Freeh's FBI, despite warnings from every corner of the US...

...totally fucked up by not connecting dots that burned around them like a thousand suns (thanks to JL for the anaolgy).:thumbsdown:

[aquart]

3. Still whitewashing Condi and Caligula, I see.

The CIA TOLD BushCo. BushCo did nothing in response. I know exactly who I blame.

[Disturbed]

5. Busholini had plenty of warnings. He went on vacation.

911 was LIHOP. NO doubt about it!

[ComerPerro]

4. government investigates self, finds administration scapegoat to blame. Big suprise

[azurnoir]

6. And oh gee it is

just "coincidence" that the only Clinton official Bush kept was George Tenet? Yeah right

[Hydra]

7. I love how they keep blaming the CIA

Even though the intel community had already submitted scenarios and solutions for airplane attacks on the WTC. 9/11 comes, and we have Condi point blanking us, telling us that no one could have foreseen the use of Airliners used as weapons.

Dead fish anyone?

[MazeRat7]

8. Some proof it was actually al-Qaida would be a good start....

Then perhaps the discussion of a "plan", or lack of, to stop them would be something worthy to write a report about.

MZr7

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

9. And Jack the Ripper didn't do enough...

...to stop the butchery of prostitutes in the back alleyways of London either.