WP: 9/11 Panel to Cite 10 Missed Opportunities

[kskiska]

Panel Faults Two Administrations but Doesn't Call Attacks Preventable

Wednesday, July 21, 2004; Page A01

The final report by the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks details as many as 10 missed opportunities by the Bush and Clinton administrations to detect or derail the deadly terrorist hijackings, but the panel stops short of saying the attacks should have been prevented, according to government officials and others familiar with the document.

The report, to be released publicly tomorrow, includes a list of 10 "operational opportunities" that the government missed to potentially unravel the Sept. 11 plot, said a government official who has read the document. Six of the incidents listed came during the Bush administration and four were during the Clinton years, this official said.

But the nearly 600-page report acknowledges that many of the opportunities were long shots and that others would have required a lucky sequence of events to alter the outcome, said sources who declined to be identified because the commission wants the document kept secret until its release.

Another government official who has been briefed on the report said the tally of missed opportunities includes the CIA's failure to add two hijackers' names to a terrorism watch list; the FBI's handling of the August 2001 arrest of Zacarias Moussaoui, who has been accused of conspiring in the plot; and several failed attempts to kill or capture Osama bin Laden. The report also notes, however, the inherent difficulties that intelligence agencies have in assembling a clear picture of a terrorist threat, one official said.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A127-2004Jul20.html

[Aunt Anti-bush]

1. Hardball with Chris Matthews tomorrow night...

is showing "What could have and should have been done to prevent 9-11".

[blm]

2. Freeper heads will explode. They'll scream "Hey, they forgot the 3 times

when Clinton was offered Bin Laden on a silver platter."

Hey Rush, Hannity, et al....bite it.

[shockingelk]

4. I just posted this at hennity.com

under subject "9/11 Commission to fault Clinton for failing to unravel plot"

The report, to be released publicly tomorrow, includes a list of 10 "operational opportunities" that the government missed to potentially unravel the Sept. 11 plot, said a government official who has read the document. Six of the incidents listed came during the Bush administration and four were during the Clinton years, this official said.

[yardwork]

5. They're already exploding over the Berger "scandal"

Stupid morans. Don't care about Halliburton in Iran. Don't care about the incompetence that led to 9/11. Don't care about Plame. Don't care.....

All it is is Clenis Clenis Clenis.

[stickdog]

3. How about the fighter jet stand down? Was that a "missed opportunity"?

Didn't think so.

Of course, the abject failure to protect US airspace for well over 90 minutes after the first suspected hijack hit the tallest buliding in NYC doesn't count.

Of course.

[indepat]

7. Maybe the Commission was only focusing on the "big" missed opportunities

[DeepModem Mom]

6. kick

[struggle4progress]

9. kick

:kick:

[thebigidea]

8. 9/11 wasn't preventable?

9/11 Chair: Attack Was Preventable

NEW YORK, Dec. 17, 2003

Panel: 9/11 Preventable

Kean promises major revelations in public testimony beginning next month from top officials in the FBI, CIA, Defense Department, National Security Agency and, maybe, President Bush and former President Clinton.

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High-Ranking Officials Admit 9/11 Could've Been Prevented

"This was not something that had to happen."

"They simply failed."

— Thomas H. Kean, Chair of the independent commission investigating 9/11. Kean is a Republican appointed by Bush