August 26, 2005
The CIA Blame Game on 9/11/ Intelligence Failures
The New York Times reported August 26, 2005 that:A long-awaited CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) inspector-general's report on the agency's performance before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks includes detailed criticism of more than a dozen former and current agency officials, aiming its sharpest language at George Tenet, the former director of central intelligence, according to a former intelligence officer who was briefed on the findings and another government official who has seen the report.
Here' is The Times' report, as published at SFGate.Com.
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Fox News: Senate May Hold Hearings on Able Danger
Rupert Murdoch's Fox News reported August 25, 2005 that "Aides to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, are actively discussing scheduling a hearing on "Able Danger" and the larger issue of information-sharing between the Pentagon and the FBI."
Fox News noted that, "Able Danger is the code name for a military-intelligence unit that apparently learned a year before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that lead hijacker Mohamed Atta and other terrorists were already in the United States."
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February 17, 2005
Bush Appoints Veteran of Dirty Wars to Lead US Spy Role
Ambassador "John Negroponte's nomination by President Bush yesterday [February 17, 2005]to be his chief of intelligence represents the pinnacle of rehabilitation for a man who, for many people, will always be associated with U.S. involvement in the "dirty wars" in Central America in the 1980s," Duncan Campbell, The Guardian's Washington correspondent noted in the February 18, 2005 issue of the widely-read British journal. Here's more. Here is an USA Today editorial on the appointment.
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