Which vein, the left or the right?
On Aug 17, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Jim Devine wrote: > didn't the 911 committee complain loudly about the left hand not knowing what > the right hand was doing, i.e., the lack of communication and cooperation > among intelligence agencies? isn't this story in that vein? > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Peter Hollings <[email protected]> wrote: > Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28866.htm > > > > > > Neither ink nor air > > Did Tenet Hide Key 9/11 Info? > > By Ray McGovern > > August 17, 2011 "Information Clearing House" With few exceptions, like some > salacious rumor about the Kennedy family, the mainstream U.S. news media has > shown little interest in stories that throw light on history — even recent, > very relevant history. So it comes as no surprise that, when a former White > House counter-terrorism czar accuses an ex-CIA director of sitting on > information that could have prevented a 9/11 attack, the story gets neither > ink nor air. > > Bulletin for those of you who get your information only from the New York > Times, the Washington Post and other outlets of the Fawning Corporate Media > (FCM): Former White House director for counterterrorism Richard Clarke has > accused former CIA Director George Tenet of denying him and others access to > intelligence that could have thwarted the attack on the Pentagon on 9/11. > > Deliberately withholding critical intelligence from those who need it, and > can act on it, is — at the least — gross dereliction of duty. The more so if > keeping the White House promptly and fully informed is at the top of your job > jar, as it was for Director of Central Intelligence Tenet. And yet that is > precisely the charge Clarke has leveled at the former DCI. > > In an interview aired on Aug. 11 on a local PBS affiliate in Colorado, Clarke > charges that Tenet and two other senior CIA officials, Cofer Black and > Richard Blee, deliberately withheld information about two of the hijackers of > American Airlines Flight 77 — al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar. The two had entered > the United States more than a year before the 9/11 attacks. > > Clarke adds that the CIA then covered it all up by keeping relevant > information away from Congress and the 9/11 Commission. > > -- > Jim Devine / "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are > not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." > -- Albert Einstein > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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