Terror experts 'almost quit' in frustration with Bush

[papau]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=504776

Terror experts 'almost quit' in frustration with Bush
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
25 March 2004


The Bush administration's failure to prevent the 11 September attacks came under even fiercer scrutiny yesterday, when it emerged that two veteran CIA counter-terrorism experts were so frustrated in summer 2001 that they considered resigning and making public their fears about an imminent terrorist strike against US targets.

The shock revelation comes in new findings released by the federal commission investigating the attacks in 2001. These also show that John McLaughlin, deputy to the CIA director George Tenet, had told the panel he too was worried that not enough was being done.

According to this latest report, Mr McLaughlin had felt "a great tension, especially in June and July 2001", between the incoming Bush team's need to get a grip on the terrorism issue, and his own sense of urgency about the danger.<sbip>

... that explanation does not deal with another point of contention yesterday, the President's daily, top-secret, intelligence briefing from the CIA on 6 August 2001, which the White House has refused to release. It is known however that this "PDB" warned of the possibility of terrorists using airliners for an attack - leading to accusations of a cover-up.
24 March 2004 22:20

[papau]

1. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x442557

[Moderator]

4. Locking

go here -

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x442557

[revcarol]

2. This is the first I heard of this.

A BIIIIIIIIG story.:kick:

[Jackpine Radical]

3. A British source,

of course, of course.

Wanna bet when it hits the US mass media?