Reply #1: The general drift of the CIA IG's report has been reported. [View All]

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If you read the September 2002 Joint Intelligence Committee reports, and the June 2005 FBI IG report, you'll get the picture about why the CIA IG recommends disciplining George Tenet and Cofer Black.

In a nutshell, in late 1999, the NSA picked up communications regarding Nawaf al-Hazmi, who along with Khalid al-Midhar, was the principal Flt. 77 hijacker who slammed into the Pentagon on 9/11. The CIA tracked the pair to Kuala Lumpur, where they attended an al-Qaeda planning summit with among other people, Mohamed Atta's roommate, Ramzi bin al Shihb. The CIA and several allied intelligence services "monitored" that meeting held in a condo off a golfcourse (not particularly thick walls, or anything), and trailed the pair as they left. Atta's roommate, who went in and out of Malaysia several times during the conference, returned to Munich. Among the topics discussed by the group were the 9/11 hijacking plot and the bombing of the USS Cole.

Tenet and Black (who was then chief of the CIA Counter-Terrorism Center) testified to the Joint Committee and later the 9/11 Commission that the Agency had lost track of pair before they entered US at LAX on 1/15/00, meeting up with a Saudi intelligence officer who drove them to San Diego, and paid for their apartment. See, www.democraticunderground.com/ articles/03/03/01_crimes.html

However, the FBI IG's report released this summer states that the CIA ordered the Bureau liaison at CTC to withhold a cable to the FBI National Security Office in New York notifying that office that al-Midhar and al-Hazmi had entered the US. See, www.williambowles.info/911/cia_perjury.html

As a result, the pair and their co-conspirators went on to complete their mission, killing 3,000 people.