Goss Won't Seek Review for Tenet, Others

[Judi Lynn]

Goss Won't Seek Review for Tenet, Others
By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer

Wednesday, October 5, 2005

(10-05) 12:39 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

Contrary to recommendations, CIA Director Porter Goss will not order disciplinary reviews for the agency's former director George Tenet and other officials who have come under fire for their performance before the attacks of Sept 11, 2001.

In a statement Wednesday, Goss said a report by the agency's independent watchdog did not suggest "that any one person or group of people could have prevented 9/11."

"After great consideration of this report and its conclusion, I will not convene an accountability board to judge the performances of any individual CIA officers," he said.
(snip)

Goss indicated he will make little — if any — of the document public, saying now is not the time to reveal how intelligence is collected and analyzed.
(snip/...)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/10/05/national/w123951D75.DTL

[Moochy]

1. When is the medal ceremony?

Of course not, they did what they were supposed to.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. CIA medal ceremonies do not make the papers

it has already happened, believe me.

[MADem]

2. Tenet knows where the bodies are buried

Start investigating him, and he will sing like Pavarotti...if he has to go down, he'll take people with him in a big way.

Can't have that, now, can we???

[savemefromdumbya]

9. what bodies, whose bodies?

bodies?

[Moochy]

10. Where the bodies are buried

Thats a saying, which means he knows the secrets, and implies some sinister conspiracy, but doesnt necessarily imply murder per se.

[MADem]

27. Thank you for clearing that up for me, I assumed everyone was aware of the

turn of phrase!!!!

[bunny planet]

3. I have a feeling he's been told to back off of Tenet. Tenet may just have

information that could bring down the whole cabal. Didn't Tenet already testify in front of Fitzgerald's grand jury. They bought his silence with his medal of freedom but something tells me he won't be very easily quieted if they order disciplinary reviews of his performance.

[hang a left]

4. I read that Tenet submitted a rebuttal to this report....

Does anyone remember reading that and how pissed he was?

[johnfunk]

5. No disciplinary review for 9/11 failures of Tenet

As if anyone getting a nice, shiny medal from Smirky McDumbass would ever be held accountable under his treasonous, negligent regime:

No disciplinary review for 9/11 failures of Tenet
CIA director bars accountability review for his predecessor, others
Associated Press / 4:44 p.m. ET Oct. 5, 2005

WASHINGTON - Contrary to recommendations, CIA Director Porter Goss will not order disciplinary reviews for the agency’s former director George Tenet and other officials who have come under fire for their performance before the attacks of Sept 11, 2001.

One bloody hand washes the other in Smirky's Amerika.

[robbedvoter]

6. Ugh, wasn't Tenet the guy who sent the August 6 memo and kept trying to

get W's attention to Osama&co? The article makes believe it was his fault now? WTF?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

8. Well, it can't be little Georgie's fault can it?

Come on.

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. He fell on his sword for his country

but then again maybe he didn't.

Wasn't he one of the ones talking to Fitzgerald?

[MasonJar]

12. Goss is a despicable, useless neo-con. I thought a long time

and neo-con was the most insulting word I could bring to mind.

[UpInArms]

13. CIA will not pursue disciplinary action for Sept 11 (failures)

http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2005-10-05T225052Z_01_N0590257_RTRIDST_0_SECURITY-CIA-UPDATE-2.XML

WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - CIA Director Porter Goss, defying the spy agency's inspector general, said on Wednesday that he will not pursue disciplinary action against former and current CIA officials over intelligence lapses involving the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Despite widespread calls for accountability, Goss said the CIA would risk undermining the readiness of its operatives to take risks in the U.S. war on terror if it were to single out individuals for missteps that occurred in the run-up to the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.

CIA inspector general John Helgerson recommended in an internal report last August that Goss convene a performance accountability board to examine the roles played by specific CIA officials charged with protecting the United States against Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network.

But Goss said the agency's shortcomings on Sept. 11 stemmed not from individuals but from a lack of resources and personnel that dogged the CIA in the 1990s as a result of mandated post-Cold War cutbacks.

...more whitewash...

[Parche]

14. CIA

Of course not, they were the ones that helped it happen..............
and were directly involved.

[ret5hd]

15. reprimand, hell...just stop PROMOTING them!!! (nt)

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

16. Throw Cheney and Rummy in prison and I'll call it even.

[TomClash]

17. Why should they?

They didn't plan it - Bush/DOD did.

[ClintonTyree]

18. Wow, what a surprise.......

nobody is going to take responsibility for their fuck-ups. Stop the presses! :eyes:

[wellstone_democrat]

19. They can't possible punish *anyone*

because that would dilute the whole narrative of "evil men who could not possibly be stopped in their diabolical plot!" it would implicate the President as the top of the admin but most of all it would take some of the terror away from the memory if mere mortals could have stopped...well...mere mortals from their crime.

They need this as something that could not possibly be stopped.

[Merlot]

20. Does anyone with half a brain by this???

risk undermining the readiness of its operatives to take risks in the U.S. war on terror if it were to single out individuals for missteps that occurred

Keeping the individuals who made missteps working will help the readiness of operatives???

That has got to be the WORST excuse yet.

[WillyT]

21. Standard Operating Procedure For This Bunch, No ???

The traitors are in charge. So whaddaya expect.

:evilfrown:

[Up2Late]

22. CIA head rejects 9/11 blame game (BBC News)

("...He said that no one person or group of people could have prevented the 11 September attacks...." I disagree, if we had a competent President to "connect the dots," Well...)


Thursday, 6 October 2005, 03:58 GMT 04:58 UK

CIA head rejects 9/11 blame game

By Adam Brookes
BBC News, Washington

The head of the US Central Intelligence Agency, Porter Goss, says he will not hold individual officers accountable for failing to predict 9/11.

Under CIA procedures, the agency's head can order an "accountability board" to probe mistakes and errors by officers.

The CIA inspector-general recommended that boards be held to find out just who failed to predict or prevent 9/11. But Mr Goss has now rejected that recommendation, which was originally made in August.

Mr Goss said in a statement that, after great consideration, he would not convene accountability boards. He said that no one person or group of people could have prevented the 11 September attacks.

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4314268.stm>
(more at link above)

[soothsayer]

23. Gee, what a shocker. No one in this admin is accountable

ever

[Charlie Brown]

24. but I thought it was all Clinton's fault

that's what the administration's been hammering for the last four years.

[rodeodance]

25. good for him. why hang this all on the CIA?

[LibertyLou]

26. The NeoCons just blinked...capitulated and threw the Co. a bone

If they had gone after The Company, all sorts of stories would have come out...and that was too great a risk for the crazies at the top of the exec. branch and certain elements of the Pentagram...

Goss had been ordered by Cheney to go to Langley like Bolton at the UN to launch a major putsch...but just failed. There will be no witchhunt for 9/11 scapegoats.

[Cult]

28. Officials won't be punished for actions before Sept. 11th!

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/06/politics/06intel.html

<snip>

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 - The C.I.A. will not discipline George J. Tenet, the former director, or any other current or former officials singled out by an inspector general for poor performance on counterterrorism before Sept. 11, 2001, the agency said Wednesday.
The decision by Porter J. Goss, the current director, ends nearly four years of inquiries into the agency's performance before the Sept. 11 attacks. It means that no current or former officer will be reprimanded despite what the inspector general, John L. Helgerson, concluded were serious shortcomings.
<Snip!>

[marmar]

29. What else would you expect...

from a shameless, useless political hack like Porter Goss.

[back2basics909]

30. Because Tenet thretened..

.. to talk.

[cassiepriam]

31. Gee how nice. They will probably get high paying consultant jobs too.

[fooj]

32. Who says Porter Goss has the final say?

What if Fitzgerald has an investigation pending?

Peace.

[The Backlash Cometh]

33. Sounds like the Administration cut a deal with the CIA.

This isn't over.