CIA Report on 9/11 is Complete (Washington Post)

[dooner]

CIA Report on 9/11 Is Complete
Inspector General's Findings Have Yet to Reach Congress
By Walter Pincus, August 20, 2005; Page A07

The CIA inspector general's report on the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has finally been completed -- nearly two years after its congressionally set deadline -- but has yet to be sent to Capitol Hill because CIA Director Porter J. Goss is still deciding how to respond to its findings, according to administration and congressional sources.
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Under the joint committee mandate, the CIA director is to report back to the House and Senate intelligence committees on the steps taken to assign responsibility for poor performance and to reward excellence.

One reason for the long delay in producing the report, according to present and former agency officials, has been the original requirement by the joint committee that Helgerson "determine whether and to what extent personnel at all levels should be held accountable for any omission, commission or failure to meet professional standards" in relation to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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When Goss received a draft of the report last October, he sent it back because performance failures were attributed to individuals without giving them the chance to respond to those findings or have the matter adjudicated by an accountability panel, according to an October letter sent by Goss to intelligence committee members. The communication was made available to The Washington Post.

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[wli]

1. doubtless Cheney's order to carry out the attack will be redacted n/t

[54anickel]

2. CIA makes a good point - what about accountability by Congress and the

WH? Guess sh*t truely only runs downhill. The US really is being run like a corporation, labor and mid-management take the fall, upper management only responsible for the glory and finding the fall guy. :eyes:

Some present and former agency officials have been upset that four years after the attacks, the CIA is still being criticized despite having been the loudest voice in government to warn Presidents Bill Clinton and Bush of the terrorist threat.

"What about Congress and the White House not paying attention, or even the Federal Aviation Administration?" one former agency official asked yesterday.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. True that about the airlines.

Gore even gave them a recommendation in 1996, and the private airline corporations not only used their clout to ignore it, but once the WTC was attacked, their responsibility was conveniently hidden by a series of government settlements with the aggrieved. Those settlements keep rising and ya gotta ask yourself, why?

[killbotfactory]

4. What the problem? Just give the people who failed to stop it raises...

Or "medal's of freedom". That's what Bush has usually done. 9/11 was the best possible thing to happen to his presidency.

[maddezmom]

5. perhaps Goss should turn it over now

and continue to work on his response after everyone has a chance to read it. :shrug: