Greater Democracy: CIA's secret report

October 20, 2004

CIA's secret report

Robert Scheer in the LA Times (registration required) says the CIA is holding back its report on 9-11. Writes Scheer:

"It is infuriating that a report which shows that high-level people were not doing their jobs in a satisfactory manner before 9/11 is being suppressed," an intelligence official who has read the report told me, adding that "the report is potentially very embarrassing for the administration, because it makes it look like they weren't interested in terrorism before 9/11, or in holding people in the government responsible afterward."

When I asked about the report, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice), ranking Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, said she and committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) sent a letter 14 days ago asking for it to be delivered. "We believe that the CIA has been told not to distribute the report," she said. "We are very concerned."

If true, it's outrageous. Worth a call to your representatives? (Thanks to David Stephenson for the link.)

And while we're talking about presidents who live in bubbles, there's this from CNN today:

The founder of the U.S. Christian Coalition [Pat Robertson] said Tuesday he told President George W. Bush before the invasion of Iraq that he should prepare Americans for the likelihood of casualties, but the president told him, "We're not going to have any casualties."

Posted by David Weinberger at October 20, 2004 11:55 AM | TrackBack

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