La CIA édite des erreurs de l'intelligence pre-9/11

Nous avons longtemps su que la main gauche de l'administration de Bush (s'il y a d'une) a rarement connu ce que la main droite fait, et que les deux mains ne peut pas saisir la réalité mais elle est choquante pour apprendre comment dominant c'est dans le secteur principal du rassemblement d'intelligence.

Un rapport de 19 pages CIA sur l'intelligence connue, pre-9/11, écrit en 2005 et en ce moment public fait, réclame cela « à 60 la C.I.A. les dirigeants ont connu des rapports d'intelligence en 2000 ces deux de septembre. 11 pirates de l'air, Al-Hamzi de Nawaf et Al-Mihdhar de Khalid, ont pu avoir été aux Etats-Unis. But none of those officers thought to notify the Federal Bureau of Investigation about the potential domestic threat, the report says, evidence of what it calls a systemic failure,” according to the New York Times.

The inspector general (author of the report) recommended that several top agency officials, including former director George J. Tenet, be held accountable for their failure to put in place a strategy to dismantle Al Qaeda in the years before Sept. 11, 2001. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the current C.I.A. director, and his predecessor, Porter J. Goss, have declined to seek disciplinary action against Mr. Tenet and others named in the report.

Instead, of course, Bush awarded Tenant the Medal of Freedom, the highest civil medal of merit in the land.

The outlines of the report have been known since shortly after it was completed in 2005, but it had never been made public, and its release reignited a debate about whether the C.I.A. should have done more before the attacks and whether Mr. Tenet and other officials should be held accountable.

Many of the report’s findings about bureaucratic breakdowns that allowed the 19 hijackers to elude the authorities and carry out the attacks have been documented elsewhere, principally by the Sept. 11 commission, but this report by John L. Helgerson, the C.I.A. inspector, was the first to recommend that top agency officials face a disciplinary review.

The full report by the inspector general, totaling several hundred pages, remains classified

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