There are plenty of unanswered questions about the 9/11 attacks . . . some of them specific and limited in scope, others ranging into the tin-foil hat zip code . . . but this is a new take for me . . .
Former FBI agents say the CIA's bin Laden unit misled them about two hijackers.
According to Rory O'Connor and Ray Nowosielski at Salon, there are growing numbers of former government employees going on the record questioning the CIA's version of the run-up to 9/11: former FBI agents, the former counterterrorism head in the Clinton and Bush administrations, and the chairman of the 9/11 Commission, who claims George Tenet was not forthcoming in misleading the 9/11 Commission.
In light of expanded intel operations around the globe, including but not limited to vastly increased used of predator drones against civilian populations, the assassination of American citizens without due process, and the current over-the-top and failing the smell test accusations against Iran . . . is it too much to expect SOME amount of accountability.
As far as I can tell, the last time the CIA was held accountable for anything, former CIA Director Allen Dulles was fired for the Bay of Pigs debacle in September of 1961. Two years later the guy who fired him was dead in Dallas.
But I digress . . . as the Salon story details:
The commission became aware in early 2004 of a warning written by Doug Miller, an FBI agent working inside the CIA’s Alec Station. In January 2000, Miller tried to inform his bosses about a man named Khalid Al Mihdhar, who had previously been identified as a member of an al-Qaida operational cadre. By the spring of 2000, the CIA had learned that Mihdhar and another suspected al-Qaida operative, Nawaf Al Hazmi, had likely arrived in Southern California. But the CIA did not pass along the information to the FBI.
The draft cable — blocked by Miller’s CIA superiors — was not turned over to the commissioners or to the earlier congressional investigation.
Given the present breadth and range of CIA operations around the world, and its history of aiding and abetting in government overthrows, extraordinary renditions, assassinations, false-flag operations and other nefarious hijinks, is it unfair to demand some past accountability before we launch operations against Iran?