I don't understand that question. But this story suggests something we knew or should have known: as a whole (i.e., including the CIA), the Bush administration were the "gang who couldn't shoot straight" except to shower their friends and allies with tax breaks and other benefits. Look at how poorly they ran the Iraq invasion (by mainstream standards)! Or how hiring loyalists meant large-scale incompetence in New Orleans. (Of course, if they were trying to help their allies, they did a better job.)
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > 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*<http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/> >> *" *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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- 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
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