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leveymg

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3. Mr. Pillar is welcome to be the one to open up and name names, dates, places that led up to 9/11
Sat Mar 9, 2013, 09:11 AM
Mar 2013

Last edited Sat Mar 9, 2013, 01:37 PM - Edit history (3)

if he wants to begin to see accountability for the many "intelligence failures" of the Bush era, go back to the actions that created the political atmosphere in which the fraudulent invasion of Iraq was possible.

Those who have kept their mouths shut have to take the first move, since neither the agencies nor the the Attorney General in this Administration seem willing to do anything to bring accountability for policy failure.

On Edit: That having been said, he has been one of the most accurate and forthright internal critics of the politicization of intelligence that created the fertile ground in which neocon deception has grown. If you study his writing carefully, you will also see that Mr. Pillar has honestly mapped out the structural flaws that led to both the vulnerabilities that allowed neocons in the Bush Administration to misuse the CIA Counter-terrorism Center and other Agency units for their own agenda and to create and sustain the false assumptions about Iraq and other countries targeted for regime change.

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