"He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations."
http://www.lawrencewright.com/bio.htmlThis is your basic "intelligence failure due to turf wars" kind of bullshit, which is worse than the "incompetence theory"
Beyond that on the Q N A:
"People who were involved in the planning of the Cole bombing were connected to the people who planned 9/11." (Oh, the Cole bombing was an inside job? bwaha-my comment)
Q "Now, assuming that it wasn't’ sheer ill will on the C.I.A.’s part, why would it withhold that "information?
A:"In the article, you mention a policy that people referred to as “the Wall.” What was that?
The Wall stemmed from a 1995 law that sought to keep from criminal investigators information that was deemed to be relevant solely to foreign intelligence. It was originally designed to prevent such information from flowing out of the intelligence division of the F.B.I. into the hands of criminal prosecutors and into trials. But the bureau misinterpreted the law and used it to force its agents to withhold information from one another—even agents who were on the same squad. So if you have a criminal agent and an intelligence agent on the same squad, investigating the same crimes, one cannot disclose to the other what he knows."
"Soufan finally received the information he’d been asking for on September 12, 2001. "
"It is a mystery to me that people in the C.I.A. have not been held accountable"
"The report on the C.I.A. has not been released to the public"