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September 14, 2004
News Flash: Government Not Responsible for Intelligence Failures
Internal reviews still under way at the Central Intelligence Agency and recently completed at the Justice Department, examining their performance in the run-up to the Sept. 11 attacks, have not resulted in any disciplinary actions, government officials said on Monday.
What a surprise! Nobody in the government is responsible for the biggest intelligence failure in U.S. history.
"Three thousand people were killed on 9/11, and no one has been held accountable," Kristen Breitweiser, whose husband died at the World Trade Center, said in an interview Monday. Ms. Breitweiser said the intelligence overhaul now under discussion in Washington would be essentially meaningless "unless you get rid of the people who were shown to be incompetent on 9/11."
But counterterrorism officials say that the problems were systemic and that it would be foolhardy for survivors or lawmakers to hold individuals responsible for broader organizational shortcomings.
"Mistakes were made." It was a "simple bureaucratic snafu." It's the same old same old from our friends in Washington.
Posted by Mike Tennant at September 14, 2004 10:42 AM