CIA Rebuffs 9/11 Commission Criticism(Warned of hijacked Planes before 911

[papau]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=13&u=/nm/20040722/ts_nm/security_commission_intelligence_dc

CIA Rebuffs 9/11 Commission Criticism (Warned of hijacked Planes before 911)

Thu Jul 22,11:10 AM ET By Tabassum Zakaria

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA defended itself against criticism in the Sept. 11 commission report on Thursday and said it had warned of the possibility of terrorists using hijacked planes before the 2001 attacks took place.

"CIA regularly reported on threats to civil aviation including hijacking," a CIA official said on condition of anonymity to a group of reporters before the report's release. <snip>

The official said the CIA in 1999 had provided the Federal Aviation Administration (news - web sites) with language to use in briefing U.S. airline officials that read: "Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) remains interested in targeting U.S. interests including on U.S. territory. He is well prepared to consider kidnappings and hijackings as well as bombings."

"All of those warnings plus other intelligence reports of a similar nature through that period were provided in time to do something about it. It wasn't too late. The industry could have taken countermeasures and so forth. So we were on time and on target with that," he said. <snip>

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. Go, spooks!

Look, it's hard to get pass the title of the report they gave to Chimpy and he ignored. I'm not a CIA devotee, but they are getting screwed on this.

[2Design]

2. EXACTLY....don't be bush fall guy....he did nothing....went on vacation

[maxpower]

3. I'm guessing

You probably don't want to piss off the spooks. Remember what happened when Kennedy threatened to break the CIA into a thousand pieces?

[Moderator]

4. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=702640