Comments on: CIA Missed Chances to Thwart al-Qaida

By: James Shott

James Shott — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:19:22 +0000

Here’s the way the “conventional wisdom” runs on Bush/CIA: Bush had 10 months to discover the condition of every federal department and agency and fix whatever problems were left over from his daddy’s administration.

If he hadn’t been plotting to attack Iraq and turn its oil fields over to Halliburton, and had been thinking about protecting Americans, he would have found the problems in the CIA.

We should never depend upon the mainstream media for a fair, balanced and objective presentation of important news.

By: Bloviating Zeppelin

Bloviating Zeppelin — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:02:13 +0000

No, wrong, Fred. The person responsible for the earliest, deepest, most extensive and almost unrecoverable emasculation of the CIA was President Carter. We began to recover slightly but then continued to forsake HUMINT for ELINT, COMINT and the like — thinking that what we lacked in HUMAN intelligence we could easily make up for with technology. And that is simply wrong. President Reagan didn’t help when he signed EO 12333 in 1981.

By: ablur

ablur — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:40:21 +0000

When you hear the left speak they blame Bush for 9/11. (Bush has a lot of faults but 9/11 isn’t one of his failures.)
Some other facts that further square the blame of 9/11 on the Clinton’s and Al Gore.
The White House was completely trashed by the Clinton’s and their staff. Computers were missing or damaged. It took a battery of technicians over a month to resolve ready room computer issues after the Clinton’s left. It has been reported that all computer and communication services were not fully restored until June.
The Florida debacle with Al Gore Unwilling to honorably bow out created a hold on vetting any staff for the Bush administration. All staff must go through a rigorous background check before access can be granted. The Bush staff was not completely in place until the end of May. Clinton appointees were retained until the vetting issue was resolved. We can not find any satisfactory reporting as to them carrying out their duties under the new president.

With these facts in place and a full appraisal of their repercussions, Bush didn’t have a chance. His staff were just finishing orientation and training when the planes were waiting to take off on 9/11.

By: gunz

gunz — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:26:52 +0000

Yea, Clinton stripped out alright, down to his bare bone with Monica.

Clinton’s arrogance, and as you said the stripping out of intel services, and being a male whore created so much complacency within it’s sickening.

Then the impeachment hearings.

Those sand niggers were licking their lips knowing how f-ked up everything was over here.

They had better intel then we did, go figure.

They probably knew Bush was heading into Iraq before we did too.

Distractions, distractions…

By: TexasFred

TexasFred — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:12:10 +0000

Or retired…

By: GUYK

GUYK — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:10:39 +0000

The Clinton administration cut the CIA and the military. Seems as if the left wing stayed upset at the CIA for overthrowing some pissy ant governments about the world when these pissy ass governments went commie. Now we need the CIA to overthrow that commie sumbitch in South America who decided he wanted to be president for life…but the ones who had the balls to do this have been either kicked out or have croaked.