Did any heads roll after 9/11? I mean, was anybody fired for not having done their jobs?

[raccoon]

I don't remember hearing of any.

[Subdivisions]

1. Not a single one. In fact, there were promotions. n/t

[raccoon]

4. Most notably, "National Security Advisor" was promoted to Sect. of State. nt

[KansDem]

2. They did their jobs...nt

[Subdivisions]

6. Amen to that. I was channel surfing a little while ago and saw

Steven Hadley's face and stopped to see what he had to say. He was responding a question about Rove saying in his book that Iraq WMDs was a mistake, saying that they got bad intelligence and that the entire world's intelligence agencies made the same mistake, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. Get that? EVERY INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WAS WRONG.

It's their story and they're sticking to it.

[KansDem]

9. The United States has 17 intelligence agencies...

The 17 IC member agencies are:

Air Force Intelligence
Army Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Coast Guard Intelligence
Defense Intelligence Agency
Department of Energy
Department of Homeland Security
Department of State
Department of the Treasury
Drug Enforcement Administration
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Marine Corps Intelligence
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
National Reconnaissance Office
National Security Agency
Navy Intelligence
Office of the Director of National Intelligence

http://www.intelligence.gov/about-the-intelligence-community/

They all got it wrong?

But besides that, one could examine a timeline, from the PNAC letter to Clinton telling him to do something about Iraq (I think it was 1998); to the stolen election; to the August 6, 2001, PDF; to Bush doing nothing when told by Card "we were under attack;" to the whole "Saddam has WMDs" lie; etc.etc.etc.

But, one other event stands out in my mind--the attack on the first WTC tower:

QUESTION: One thing, Mr. President, is that you have no idea how much you've done for this country, and another thing is that how did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack?

BUSH: Well... (APPLAUSE)

Thank you, Jordan (ph).

Well, Jordan (ph), you're not going to believe what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack. I was in Florida. And my chief of staff, Andy Card -- actually I was in a classroom talking about a reading program that works. And I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on, and I use to fly myself, and I said, "There's one terrible pilot." And I said, "It must have been a horrible accident."

But I was whisked off there -- I didn't have much time to think about it, and I was sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my chief who was sitting over here walked in and said, "A second plane has hit the tower. America's under attack."

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/bushlie.html

Now, even if the first attack was "one terrible pilot," wouldn't you expect the POTUS to cancel all appearances and appear before the American people and announce what happened and how he was going to respond. I mean, he had to know hundreds, if not thousands, of people died in that accident. Wouldn't he feel the necessity to assure Americans about how the government was going to react? FEMA? Medical emergency teams? Contacting New York state and city government to coordinate help? Wouldn't that be the role of the POTUS after a man-made disaster like a airliner crashing into one of the nation's tallest building?

Yet what does he do? Goes into a classroom for a photo-op to read a children's book.

Very telling; he was doing what he was suppose to do...

[Subdivisions]

13. Remember, they used basically the same excuse for the intelligence

leading up to 9/11. "No one could have imagined terrorists using planes as bombs and flying them into buildings." - Condeleeza Rice

[JohnnyBoots]

3. Didn't Tennet get the Medal of Freedom shortly there after? nt

[Subdivisions]

7. Like I said, there were promotions, as is usually the case in corporate coups. n/t

[WhiteTara]

5. unless you consider the medal of freedom a punishment

nothing was done to excoriate the "wrong doers"

[global1]

8. I Don't Think So - In Fact One Went On And Had A Second 4 Yr Term......nt

[Blue Owl]

10. No, that wasn't in the script...

n/t

[Romulox]

11. Nope. Just like the Banksters all got gov't bonuses, no new regs. nt

[The Straight Story]

12. The taliban was fired

;)