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Pressure Builds For CIA to Disclose 9/11 Report

By TChris, Section War on Terror
Posted on Sat Sep 17, 2005 at 01:02:31 PM EST
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The Republican chairs of the House and Senate intelligence oversight committees have joined Democrats in asking the CIA to make public a report that criticizes former senior CIA officials, including George Tenet, for their actions (and inaction) regarding terrorism prior to 9/11.

They add to the pressures on [CIA Director Porter] Goss, who has made clear that he would prefer not to make the report public, at least in part because its publication could be damaging to the agency's morale.

Until last week, only the top Democrats on each panel, Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia and Representative Jane Harman of California, had called for Mr. Helgerson's report to be made public. The White House has not commented on the issue.

Relatives of the 9/11 victims have also asked for public disclosure of the report.

There's little doubt that its contents would be enlightening.

Current and former government officials who have seen Mr. Helgerson's report or been briefed on it have said it faulted Mr. Tenet as failing to develop a strategic plan against Al Qaeda and carry it out in the years before 2001. Others who are said to be criticized in the document include James L. Pavitt, the former deputy director of operations, and J. Cofer Black, the former director of the agency's Counterterrorist Center, though the report also offers praise for some specific actions taken by them and others, they said.

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    Pressure Builds For CIA to Disclose 9/11 Report | 7 comments (7 topical)
    Re: Pressure Builds For CIA to Disclose 9/11 Repor (none / 0) (#1)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:58 PM EST
    I wonder if Pat Roberts has planted/leaked any new items "that the public should know" in this report to sink some more CIA agents whose work questioned the neocon agenda.
    A spokeswoman for Senator Pat Roberts, the Kansas Republican who is chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he had told Mr. Goss in making his request that "there is material in the report that the public should know."
    The WH neocons have been at odds with the CIA from the beginning. My bet is that Tenet will prevail and the whole thing will be like Castro's exploding cigar, except this time the WH is sucking on it and it will blow up in their face. The spooks may have learned from past mistakes.

    Re: Pressure Builds For CIA to Disclose 9/11 Repor (none / 0) (#2)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:58 PM EST
    Thomas Jefferson On Politics & Government
    "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson* "The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government." --Thomas Jefferson to Maryland Republicans, 1809.


    Re: Pressure Builds For CIA to Disclose 9/11 Repor (none / 0) (#3)
    by desertswine on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:58 PM EST
    Here's another Jeffy that relates;
    "Information is the currency of democracy."


    Re: Pressure Builds For CIA to Disclose 9/11 Repor (none / 0) (#4)
    by Ernesto Del Mundo on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:58 PM EST
    What could be worse for morale than what was disclosed about FBI involvement in the gang that bombed the WTC in 1993?
    Salem asserts that the original plan was to have the plotters build the bomb using a harmless powder instead of actual explosive, but that an FBI supervisor decided that a real bomb should be constructed instead. He substantiates his claims with hundreds of hours of secretly-recorded conversations with his FBI handlers, made during discussions held after the bombings.
    Re: Pressure Builds For CIA to Disclose 9/11 Repor (none / 0) (#5)
    by Lww on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:59 PM EST
    Maybe we will find out why the terrorists "were allowed" to fly those planes into the towers and the pentagon? Who was manipulating airline and other stocks in the days preceding the attacks? How the authorities had a wealth of information on the attackers by Sept.12th? One day after.... Plenty of questions have still not been answered and I want answers.

    Re: Pressure Builds For CIA to Disclose 9/11 Repor (none / 0) (#6)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:59 PM EST
    LWW-you may have to wait until an Independent investigation is held.... that is once Bush and his pals are out and we have a congress more attuned to the will of their constituents.

    Re: Pressure Builds For CIA to Disclose 9/11 Repor (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:04 PM EST
    LWW was being sarcastic, Squeak. He hates New Yorkers.

    Pressure Builds For CIA to Disclose 9/11 Report | 7 comments (7 topical)