The Weekly Standard takes a look at a recent CIA OIG report and, among other issues, doesn't like what it doesn't see. Given the report is from a spooky agency that gave us Valerie Plame and what has sometimes looked like a constant stream of anti-Bush leaks, is self-examination just a polite way of saying masturbation where the CIA's concerned? The OIG aside, I rarely put much faith in reports issued by government bureaucracies who appear to have self-preservation and aggrandizement as their chief mission. And the only names they ever name are ones that are gone. Where's the accountability in that?
Who is to blame for the intelligence disaster of September 11? The sixth anniversary of the attacks is upon us, and the finger-pointing continues unabated. Last month the CIA reluctantly made public a summary of a 2005 report prepared by its Office of Inspector General (OIG) undertaken to determine if any agency employees "should be held accountable" for failing to forestall the worst attack on our homeland in our history.
Crikey, I though he actually had some expertise in the Middle Eastern field, but it seems he has as much as fmr CTC staffers Larry" Terrorism is not a serious problem" Johnson; and Mary "Let me leak that detention facility"
McCarthy. Goss who was an operator and supportive of further operations, was
replaced by Hayden, just another NSA suit. Kappes, the agency's Iran expert
promoted to No. 2; what has he done besides recycle the "family jewels' controversy of the 70s.
Posted by: narciso | Saturday, September 08, 2007 at 09:27 PM