Intelligence community 'in denial' over Iraq and September 11

[maddezmom]

Pat Roberts, Republican chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, vented his frustration yesterday with a US intelligence community that was "in denial".


The Central Intelligence Agency, Mr Roberts said, had failed to predict or pre-empt the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks and a year later had badly missed again in its claims that Saddam Hussein had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction. Amazingly, said Mr Roberts, "no one has been fired or disciplined".

Less than an hour later, President George W. Bush announced that George Tenet, CIA director, had tendered his resignation "for personal reasons".

While Mr Tenet had signalled for months that he would not serve another term, the timing of his departure was still a shock, coming in the middle of an election year when the administration is warning of new terrorist threats.

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Departure churns up more mud in Washington turf wars
George Tenet's resignation muddies the waters even further in the Bush administration's inner feuding over Ahmad Chalabi and the intelligence role played by the former US-funded opposition leader.


The administration this week said the CIA was investigating Mr Chalabi's intelligence activities. The Iraqi had highly-placed friends among "hawks" in the Pentagon and the White House who saw him as a possible future leader of his country, while senior CIA and State Department figures preferred other Iraqi exiles.

Officials and lawmakers in Congress hesitated to link Mr Tenet's departure and the row over Mr Chalabi directly, but Pentagon officials privately suggested officials at the CIA and State Department were mounting a smear campaign to discredit certain individuals in the Pentagon.

Some Bush are taking the resignation as a sign that the administration is buckling under the pressure of its difficulties in Iraq.

According to officials at the CIA, State Department and White House, the FBI is conducting its own investigation into links between Mr Chalabi and Pentagon officials

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[KissMyAsscroft]

1. Looks like they are going to try and blame the CIA for everything..

Looks like the strategy now...

[maddezmom]

2. wonder if any are currently working on a book, that can be published ASAP

[Rose Siding]

3. Sy Hersh, 'Chain of Command' is due out in the Fall.

but I don't know its scope.

[BadGimp]

4. and is anyone surprised by that?

I have seen this outcome predicted by many many DU'ers since 9/11 and since Dubya's Excellent Iraqi Adventure.

[KissMyAsscroft]

5. Nah, Im not surprised...

I thought they would have started earlier, but now it appears that Woodwards book with the "slam dunk" quote was to be the official kickoff.

[maddezmom]

6. bush* probably forgot to tell Woody, that tenent said the info that Dicky

was passing around was a "slam dunk"...ya know the info Dicky got from Chalabi.

[Don_G]

7. "As Seen On TV"

And orchestrated by Rove and the "pre-paid" Right-Wing Media.

The data is somewhere in the "noise" to connect links but that requires perspective and knowledge---something Rove dosen't want to give the "citizens" of the US a chance to think about.

[TahitiNut]

12. Not sold in stores (or anywhere else with product safety or fraud laws.)

[LittleApple81]

8. No. what ROBERTS knows is that this would be one thing that

might help Bush* and the Repugs... they will manufacture the evidence if necessary. And I think they will consider it necessary pretty soon.

[leesa]

9. But they weren't wrong and the world knows it. They reported the truth

to the appropriate people and Bush let 9-11 happen and invaded Iraq and Afganistan like they had planned to.

[Disturbed]

11. Both fired

The Director and Deputy were both fired. It is a move to distance BushCo from accountability of 911 and Iraq. It will probably work for the bulk of Amerikans. The fault of BushCo regarding 911 will not reach the American public.The Office of Special Plans is much to complex for the Media to spell out regarding intell about Iraq. The Chalabi situation will be sidelined and fade from public view.

Will the V. Plame outing be the crime that BushCo cannot deflect?

[MO_Dem]

10. Pentagon officials suggest

CIA and State Dept. are mounting a smear campaign to discredit certain individuals in the Pentagon??????

Hmmmmmmm, I'm doing some serious head-scratching over this tidbit. Is Rummy paranoid? or Wooferwhich? or ??