CIA's Goss Wants to Get Back to Basics (buried 9/11 report)

[Robert Oak]

Also on Goss' plate is how to handle a CIA inspector general report into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The intelligence official said Goss has asked the inspector general to consider some changes to the report, still a draft, to make clear conclusions have not been reached about who personally should be held accountable. That could be handled by "accountability panel" established by Goss, the official said.

It's unclear how much the public will ever know about the report, which spans more than 300 pages. Internal CIA investigations are often classified for decades. For example, the CIA's internal probe of the ill-fated 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, which the agency backed, wasn't released publicly until 1998.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041105/ap_on_go_ot/second_term_intelligence

[Amigust]

1. The coverup goes on and on. Yawn.

[htuttle]

2. Yes, I'm sure he's got paperclips to sort, and memos to rubber stamp

Busy, busy, busy.

[dave502d]

3. B*. man. n/

[eleny]

4. It's time for some leaks!

[dqueue]

14. HAHAHAH!

There will be no leaks. I will be quite surprised if this 9/11 report ever sees the public light. Not to mention the Valerie Plame leak investigation, Larry Franklin the Israeli mole in the Pentagon investigation...

These will all wash away... it sucks...

[frylock]

5. still a draft my ass! this report was completed in june..

they've been sitting on this egg since then, at the behest of the junta. Now that junior has installed his boy Goss, we'll never see this report, which was exactly what I knew would happen. But don't you dare, don't you fucking DARE to suggest that they LIHOP! :mad:

[Octafish]

10. 'Draft' means 'Whitewash'

The turd Goss was Operation 40. He knows what "getting back to basics" means: murder, drug-dealing, war, total fascism.

[mazzarro]

6. This is what we get everytime congressional democrats attempt

to sweep aside something important because of a looming election. It always backfires on democrats. I believe that we ought to demand that congressional democrats deal straight forwardly with the issues when they arise because there may never be a better opportunity later. Now Goss has all the time and opportunity he needs to politicize the agency in favor of the reThugs, also he will suppress a critical report and demand instead a more reThug friendly one. Well we are screwed again!

[leQ]

7. my theory on this has always been: it's not broke.

the system isnt broke. its the operators of the system that need changing. the system served us well and i'm sure it can be improved. but this massiveness that 9/11 commission report is talking about. i wonder. was this s ome sort of way to tell bush that he needs to change?

i dunno. i've known quite a few people in the service and as much as i know, they arent the ones that should be blamed. the higher ups who are supposed to be connecting the dots, now that's where blame should be going. and lets not forget. how many caveats did bush get over iraq? and ignored every last one of 'em holdin up that cowboy image to the rescue.

but our intel is just as good as anybody elses... and of course it can always be improved. but was 9/11 a reason of faulty intelligence? i hardly think that's appropriate. warnings were given. the low-man on the totem pole is not who makes the decisions.

the bush presidency has been all about who can i blame for things when they don't go the way i want, and i mean everytyhing that goes wrong. yet they're shoving others out of the way when it comes time to take credit for something good. i dunno, forget about the deeds bush has (or in his case, has not) done. and look at the man. he's a con man. straight up 'i'm tje bpss so you have to do what i want', its easy to see where the 'with us or against us' comes from.

but there's another side to him. the evangelical side, the empty one, one without spirit. there's no spirit in george w. bush. people with spirit do not lay things out black and white all the time. people with spirit think for themselves, because that's whenGod is whispering. i can assure you, God has not been whisperting to george w. bush.

i've read the family, by kitty kelly, and thought it was trash straight up. i'm sure she meant it to be that way. but did i learn anything new about george w. bush? you bet. but what i learned to be true, basically only confirms what i had to take as chance & guesswork already. i dont interact with the guy, please. he couldn't handle me. but i do know him from just watching him, reading about his history, and it never dawned on me that the painted persona was not that much different from the human persona. people tend to make bush what they want bush to be, yet bush is one of these guys who gives 'em what he wants to give 'em. ego? maybe. but its something else. something unique in that it doesn't manifest in too many people. but president of the united states he was never meant to be. there's an aberration underway, and we can only hope and pray to God that he's on top of it. the presidency came across and he jumped on it. he wants to be the top dog, the one givin the orders, the one who doesnt ever have to take responsibility, and never ever admit to being wrong. some would blame his evangelical upbringing for that. i'm not so sure that evangelical lifestyle is what made george bush, george w. bush. it had a part, no doubt, ut it's more of a little boy always trying to win, win at all costs. that sorta thing.

but i am depressed that george got the whitehouse again. am i angry? you bet. but will i try to make a better situation knowing that bush is going to be one way, and i'll just have to be another way. i wish people didnt take everything we do that doesn't jibe with the bush mantra, as bush-bashing. why does bush gotta be the victim?

oye, its 3AM, and i'm still not sleepy. tired, but not sleepy.

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. Why doesn't someone just slip us a copy of the report a la

Pentagon Papers?

[ignatius 2]

9. An accountability panel?? WTF??? Personal responsibility to the party

of personal responsibility is a joke of gargantuan size.

These people are such fucking hypocrites, why can't we make them go away?

[sattahipdeep]

11. Undercover agent tapped for CIA post

By WALTER PINCUS
Washington Post
Nov. 4, 2004, 8:59PM

WASHINGTON - CIA Director Porter Goss has selected a 22-year
undercover logistics officer nicknamed "Dusty" as executive
director, the third-ranking position at the agency.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2885188

[Richardson08]

12. What's going on with the Plame situation?Who leaked her ID to Novak?

[TahitiNut]

13. "Sept. 11, 2001, attacks" == "1961 Bay of Pigs invasion"????

Notice the equivalence relationship! The rationalization for the classification and suppression of the Bay of Pigs report is, by clear implication, applicable to the 9/11 report!

But, but, but ... the CIA was complicit in the Bay of Pigs invasion!

Are they saying the CIA was complicit in the 9/11 attacks?

[depakid]

15. Thanks Dems- you guys liked Goss

and you wouldn't fight- so you enjoy what you get

[atreides1]

16. This Is Why

The Democrats in the Senate should have blocked his nomination until after the election. Any one with half a brain knew that this kind of thing was going to happen.

[sattahipdeep]

17. National intelligence director...World Bank

It is assumed that Bush’s recently appointed CIA director,
former Rep. Porter J. Goss, will remain in his job or move
up to become national intelligence director if Congress
votes to create the position, as the 9/11 Commission
recommended.

If Powell does resign thoughts are he will return to
private life or accept the presidency of the World Bank.

http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2004%20opinions/November/5%20n/Bushs%20Possible%20Choices%20for%20SecondTerm%20Cabinet.htm

[Redleg]

18. FUCK YOU GOSS.

You are a republican hack.

[Native]

19. FUCK YOU GOSS