The Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket
By Robert Scheer, AlterNet.org
It 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.”
When I
asked about the report, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), ranking Democratic
member of the House Intelligence Committee, said she and committee
Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) sent a letter 14 days ago asking for
it to be delivered. “We believe that the CIA has been told not to
distribute the report,” she said. “We are very concerned.”
According
to the intelligence official, who spoke to me on condition of
anonymity, release of the report, which represents an exhaustive
17-month investigation by an 11-member team within the agency, has been
“stalled,” first by acting CIA Director John McLaughlin and now by
Porter J. Goss, the former Republican House member (and chairman of the
Intelligence Committee) who recently was appointed CIA chief by George
W. Bush.
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