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CIA report about 9/11 that was completed in June but has been suppressed by the administration. Scheer quotes an intellig ence official who has read the report saying, "What all the other report s on 9/11 did not do is point the finger at individuals, and give the ho w and what of their responsibility. The report found very senior-level officials responsible."
full text of the article October 19, 4:48 PM - steve (not verified) If you aren't registered on LA Times, it's worth it just to read the arti cle, but here's the full text anyway: The 9/11 Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket ROBERT SCHEER The agency is withholding a damning report that points at senior official s Robert Scheer October 19, 2004 It is shocking: The Bush administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/ 11 until after the election, and this one names names. Although the repo rt by the inspector general's office of the CIA was completed in June, i t has not been made available to the congressional intelligence committe es that mandated the study almost two years ago. "It is infuriating that a report which shows that high-level people were not doing their jobs in a satisfactory manner before 9/11 is being suppr essed," an intelligence official who has read the report told me, adding that "the report is potentially very embarrassing for the administratio n, because it makes it look like they weren't interested in terrorism be fore 9/11, or in holding people in the government responsible afterward. "We believe that the CIA has been told not to distri bute the report," she said. According to the intelligence official, who spoke to me on condition of a nonymity, release of the report, which represents an exhaustive 17-month investigation by an 11-member team within the agency, has been "stalled ." First by acting CIA Director John McLaughlin and now by Porter J Gos s, the former Republican House member (and chairman of the Intelligence Committee) who recently was appointed CIA chief by President Bush. The official stressed that the report was more blunt and more specific th an the earlier bipartisan reports produced by the Bush-appointed Sept. "What all the other reports on 9/11 did not do is point the finger at ind ividuals, and give the how and what of their responsibility. "The report found very seni or-level officials responsible." By law, the only legitimate reason the CIA director has for holding back such a report is national security. Yet neither Goss nor McLaughlin has invoked national security as an explanation for not delivering the repor t to Congress. "It surely does not involve issues of national security," said the intell igence official. "The agency directorate is basically sitting on the report until after th e election," the official continued. "No previous director of CIA has ev er tried to stop the inspector general from releasing a report to the Co ngress, in this case a report requested by Congress." None of this shoul d surprise us given the Bush administration's great determination since 9/11 to resist any serious investigation into how the security of this n ation was so easily breached. In Bush's much ballyhooed war on terror, i gnorance has been bliss. And then Bush refused to testify to the commission under o ath, or on the record. Instead he deigned only to chat with the commissi on members, with Vice President Dick Cheney present, in a White House me eting in which commission members were not allowed to take notes. All in all, strange behavior for a man who seeks reelection to the top office in the land based on his handling of the so-called war on terror. In Sep tember, the New York Times reported that several family members met with Goss privately to demand the release of the CIA inspector general's rep ort. "Three thousand people were killed on 9/11, and no one has been hel d accountable," 9/11 widow Kristen Breitweiser told the paper. The failure to furnish the report to Congress, said Harman, "fuels the pe rception that no one is being held accountable.
The stonewalling by the Bush administration and the failure of Congress t o gain release of the report have, said the intelligence source, "led th e management of the CIA to believe it can engage in a cover-up with impu nity. Unless the public demands an accounting, the administration and CI A's leadership will have won and the nation will have lost."
ws The report on our intelligence failures was pretty damning. This may be t he closest we get to an investigation of the adminitration's (in)actions before election day.
if this comes out October 19, 7:07 PM - Anonymous (not verified) it could be lights out for Bush / Cheney. and even if it doesn't come out, the questions of 'why not' could be enough .
media response October 19, 7:58 PM - Anonymous (not verified) it will be interesting to see how the media responds to this. i think the best chance for this to get picked up by major media outlets is for the left-wing blogosphere to throw its weight behind this story as they did the Sinclair debacle. i agree with the previous post, there's no reason to believe this will get out in time, but if there is a loud cry for it , the Bush administration's efforts to quiet the report will seem very i ncriminating.
s October 19, 8:41 PM - dmd (not verified) this is a pretty old story. since a ton of people on the hill have seen t he reoprt, if it was a bombshell we would know.
October 20, 12:14 AM - AndrewD (not verified) If a ton of people on the hill have seen it then why hasn't the ranking D emocratic member of the House Intelligence Committee? I've never worked there so I don't know how these things go, but I would think that the co mmittee member (or there staff) would be the first to see a report like this.
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