James Bamford says that the two hijackers were located just down the street from the NSA, which never picked up the signal. More incompetence. I suspect it is to our benefit that the government is not more efficient.
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com
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