Remember that CIA report on 9/11 which supposedly "names names" and which the White House is trying to cover up? Now both parties are calling for its release
before the elections, and the NY Times is covering the scandal (originally reported by Robert Scheer in the LA Times).
Both Parties Call on C.I.A. to Issue Report on AgencyBy DOUGLAS JEHL
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/21/politics/21intel.htmlThe Republican and Democratic leaders of the House Intelligence Committee have called on the Central Intelligence Agency to release an internal report examining the agency's performance in the run-up to the Sept. 11 attacks, Congressional officials said on Wednesday.
The leaders, Representatives Peter Hoekstra, Republican of Michigan, and Jane Harman, Democrat of California, have not made the letter public, and their offices declined to comment on any request.
But one Democratic member of the panel, Representative Rush D. Holt of New Jersey, mentioned the request in a written statement in which he said the C.I.A. "should avoid any appearance of holding back this report for fear that it would reflect badly on the administration."
The review, by the agency's inspector general, an independent internal investigator, was sought in December 2002 by the joint Congressional committee that investigated intelligence failures leading up to the attacks of Sept. 11. The purpose, that panel said, should be to determine "whether and to what extent personnel at all levels should be held accountable" for any mistakes that contributed to the failure to disrupt the attacks.
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Here´s the original scoop from Robert Scheer in the LA Times:
The 9/11 Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket
The agency is withholding a damning report that points at senior officials.http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102004V.shtmlIt is shocking: The Bush administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/11 until after the election, and this one names names. Although the report by the inspector general's office of the CIA was completed in June, it has not been made available to the congressional intelligence committees that mandated the study almost two years ago.
"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."
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