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2005-08-18 Home Front: WoT

9/11 Panel's Leader Requests Quick Assessment of Officers

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Posted by Steve White 2005-08-18 01:25|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'm buying the Able Danger line. After hearing a Lt. Col. Shaffer interview, the riff sounds credible and the (will it ever end?) 9/11 Commission has some 'spaining to do.

Posted by Captain America 2005-08-18 02:57|| 2005-08-18 02:57|| Front Page Top

#2 More interesting, what the hell was the CIA doing? Here the Able Danger folks were relying on publicly disclosed information and a powerful data mining capability.

Posted by Captain America 2005-08-18 02:58|| 2005-08-18 02:58|| Front Page Top

#3 We have had SERIOUS failures in the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon which ultimately culminated in 9-11. Line people were on the case and the lawyers or the upper management prevented action that could have saved thousands of people and billions of dollars in assets. Now all we got was a bigger burearcracy and a new coat of paint.

There have been no real shakeups in the bureaucracy and people have not lost their jobs since 9-11. Is the bureacracy so entrenched that it can't be shook to its foundations for fundamental change?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-08-18 03:44|| 2005-08-18 03:44|| Front Page Top

#4 move quickly to evaluate the credibility of the 911 commission members.

Posted by 2b 2005-08-18 04:59|| 2005-08-18 04:59|| Front Page Top

#5 It seems to me that DOD has a data mining system that works and that the FBI and CIA have not.

The story sounds a bit like the beginning of the plot in Tom Clancy's "The Teeth of the Tiger!

Posted by SwissTex 2005-08-18 08:44|| 2005-08-18 08:44|| Front Page Top

#6 move quickly to evaluate the credibility of the 911 commission members.

The credibility of Richard Ben Veniste and Jamaie Gorelick? Give me a break! This was a political circus just like the TSA. It had no credibility and only rearranged the deck chairs on the ship. The captain is right to ignore it as it has no impact on the navigation around future ice bergs.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-08-18 09:30|| 2005-08-18 09:30|| Front Page Top

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