this past Tuesday and I don't think anyone is "home" yet?
Discipline urged for CIA officials over Sept. 11 (AP)
Senior officials should be held accountable for intel failures, watchdog says
WASHINGTON - The CIA's independent watchdog has recommended disciplinary reviews for current and former officials who were involved in failed intelligence efforts before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Associated Press has learned.
CIA Director Porter Goss now must decide whether the disciplinary proceedings go forward.
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Following a two-year review into what went wrong before the suicide hijackings, people familiar with the report say Helgerson harshly criticizes a number of the agency's most senior officials. Among them are former CIA Director George Tenet, former clandestine service chief Jim Pavitt and former counterterrorism center head Cofer Black. The former officials are likely candidates for proceedings before an accountability board. [...]
"The findings in this report must be shared with all members of Congress and with the American public to ensure that the problems identified are addressed and corrected, thus moving to restore faith in this agency," a group called Sept. 11 Advocates said in a statement Thursday.
The final version comes after much internal debate at the CIA and new national intelligence director's office about whether to simply scrap the document because it looks backward and is so harsh, said one official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Thankfully, it appears it won't be scrapped, but I'm not sure we'll even get a fuller story despite it's release, even though I heard it was supposed to be damning enough to have been withheld till after the election.
There's an earlier, short article by Isikoff in the
June 20th Newsweek that goes into a little more detail about the Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi screwup, if you're interested in reading it.
But one of the most serious lapses was laid at the doorstep of the CIA Counterterrorist Center, which, the report states, blocked a key cable (reporting that one of the two hijackers, Khalid Almihdhar, had obtained a visa to enter the United States) from being forwarded to the FBI in January 2000.
So, will Goss bring out the paddle or won't he?