Revisiting 9/11 Failures (Senators want report released)

[struggle4progress]

Senators are renewing calls for the declassification of a CIA report documenting the agency’s mistakes in preventing the 2001 attacks.

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By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
Newsweek
Updated: 4:13 p.m. ET Jan 31, 2007

Jan. 31, 2007 - ... The report, prepared by the CIA’s inspector general, is the only major 9/11 government review that has still not been made publicly available ...

In a letter sent just this week, three panel members—including Intelligence Committee chairman Sen. Jay Rockefeller and ranking Republican Christopher Bond—revived the issue and asked that an executive summary of the report be declassified “without delay” and released to the public.

The letter was addressed to outgoing Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, but Oregon’s Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden—who has made the issue a personal crusade—said he intends to press the new DNI designate, J. Michael McConnell, on the matter at his confirmation hearings Thursday ...

Wyden added that if McConnell doesn’t reverse the decision made by Negroponte in refusing to declassify the report, he intends to use admittedly cumbersome intel-committee procedures to try to force the release of at least some of the inspector general’s findings. One concern, he said, is that “a desire for political security” is influencing the Bush administration’s refusal to greenlight the release of the document ...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16907952/site/newsweek/

[jamesinca]

1. this is going to open a can of worms

It seems that everything they did was to hide a failure or a wrong doing. The things that are coming out in the Libby trial, heckuva job Brownie saying LA failures were by design of the Bush administration during hurricane Katrina etc.... No, or virtually no investigation by the Republic controlled congress on this issue I think is just more of the same, and a can of worms to be opened. I hope it screws with about 21 of the '08 senate races.

[Kikosexy2]

4. there's must be..

soooo much to hide...hmmm? is it because 9/11 was indeed an inside WH job headed by PNACers, Bushco, Halliburton, Carlyle Group, the Saudis/Osamas & Tricky Darth Dicky, etc. ....treasons of the highest criminal offenses...IMPEACH NOW!!

[Independent_Liberal]

9. Come on! Let those worms out!

The worms are in the can saying, "Let me out! Let me out!"

:D

[IWantAChange]

2. Possible that without 'political edit' it could cripple the Repugs??

With the MSM having removed their blinders this could possibly, I repeat possibly, be a true watershed event for politics in this country.

Yes, I am a conspiracy theorist of sorts.


:beer: let the good times begin!!

[PhilipShore]

3. Bush made a deal with the Taliban (terrorists) via the CIA shortly before 9/11

Bush stopped any and all investigations by the CIA -- and the FBI --concerning the Taliban, because Bush Inc was negotiating a oil deal.

See:

SMOKING GUN: The Evidence that May Hang G.W. Bush
Part III
John O'Neill: Was He a Casualty of the Bush Administration?


http://archive.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=7479

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"No longer is it just the fear of being attacked by international terrorist organizations -- attacks against Americans and American interests overseas. A lot of these groups now have the capability and the support infrastructure in the United States to attack us here if they choose to do so."
-- John P. O'Neill, 1996

Until he resigned in August of 2001, John O'Neill was the director of counterterrorism for the FBI's New York office, not far from the WTC. O'Neill investigated the bombings of the World Trade Centre in 1993, a US base in Saudi Arabia in 1996, the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar-Es-Salaam in 1998, and the USS Cole.

In the course of these investigations, he became one of the world's top experts on Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, determined to hunt Bin Laden and his followers down and bring them to justice. Those who worked with him said he “lived, breathed and ate terrorism.” A scrappy, stubborn Irishman with a quick temper, a fondness for the ladies, and a reputation for being brutally blunt on some occasions, and pushy on others, O'Neill was often frustrated by the button-down boundaries of the modern FBI. But he was one of the best sleuths the agency had – as anyone who worked with him would be quick to acknowledge. U.S. attorney Mary Jo White says this of O’Neill: "John went at it comprehensively, yielding things from people in London or people in Yemen we never otherwise would have gotten." Another admirer, former FBI director Louis Freeh remembers O’Neill as “ the paramount, most knowledgeable agent we had in the FBI, probably in the government, with respect to counterintelligence matters."

After years of investigating OBL and Al Qaeda, O’Neill came to the conclusion that "All the answers, everything needed to dismantle Osama bin Laden's organization can be found in Saudi Arabia." That conviction went with him to his grave. Unfortunately for O’Neill and 3,000 other men and women, at every turn after January 2001, the Bush administration blocked the efforts of the “most knowledgable agent it had” to investigate Saudi ties to Bin Laden.

[wordpix]

7. I am just so frustrated that Smirky Dumbass is not being impeached. WTF is Congress waiting for?

:shrug: :wtf:

[Nabia2004]

5. k&r

[pberq]

6. Kick & Nominated

[TankLV]

8. It contains damning evidence of ONLY bush* and REPUKE failures.

If it contained ANY "Clinton" failures, you can be goddamned sure it would have been released long ago!

THAT's the ONLY reason it hasn't been released, along with all the other "reports".

And don't forget, this is the REPUKE report, not an "impartial" report that is damanded by the subject - which is MILD in comparison to the WHOLE TRUTH...