JUDICIAL WATCH’S NEW BOOK, “FATAL NEGLECT,” DISPROVES FINDINGS OF CONGRESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE ON 9/11
Committee’s Work is a “Whitewash” – Incomplete, Rushed, and Plagued by Conflicts Over Scope and Staffing
“Fatal Neglect”Details the Real Story of U.S. Government Failures
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TexasDude,
We're finally getting to the point where Bush's utter malfeasance is being exposed. There is an anger rising in the country about Bush and his co-conspirators betraying the people of the U.S. --Ray
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TEXT OF JUDICIAL WATCH PRESS RELEASE FOLLOWS:
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, stated today that the Congressional Joint Intelligence Committee will reportedly release a 30-page report summarizing the findings of their investigation of the law enforcement and intelligence community’s handling of the terrorist threat prior to September 11th. The report is said to detail information available to U.S. government analysts concerning al Qaeda threats to domestic U.S. targets, and the use of “airplanes as weapons.” Despite this advance intelligence warning, the Committee concluded that the government could not have prevented the attacks of September 11th. The Committee’s conclusion is false, and clearly based on incomplete, inaccurate information.
The Joint Intelligence Committee’s investigation was seriously flawed from the very beginning, based on a series of staffing controversies that centered on the appointment of former CIA Inspector General Britt Snider as the Committee Staff Director. Many analysts and intelligence community insiders felt Snider’s appointment indicated a “whitewash” by the Committee. Snider’s appointment was further complicated by his reported hiring of a former CIA officer who was the subject of a counterintelligence investigation for failing a polygraph examination. Snider resigned from the Committee and was replaced by former Defense Department Inspector General Eleanor Hill. Additionally, the staff director charged with examining the role of the FBI, Thomas A. Kelley, was reportedly the subject of an internal FBI memorandum stating that Kelley, “continued to thwart and obstruct,” the investigation of the 1993 Waco debacle by former Senator John C. Danforth.
The Committee is hamstrung by a deadline of October 2002, to wrap-up its investigation. They have met only 10 times in closed session, and are reportedly the subject of a continuing FBI investigation of alleged security leaks relating to the National Security Agency’s monitoring of al Qaeda communications.
Judicial Watch’s new book, Fatal Neglect: The U.S. Government’s Continuing Failure to Protect American Citizens from Terrorists, provides an insightful and detailed account of the failures of U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies and proposes a solution for getting to the bottom of, and fixing, the government’s errors. |
