Kristof tends to be hysterical, clueless and virtually unreadable. He has not shown the intellectual honesty or even the minimum intellectual firepower required to contribute anything useful to the long-overdue debate about the quality of our intelligence services. That's probably why he appeals to you.<g>
Compare and contrast Kristof with Bill Gertz:
.......In the months since 9/11, one thing has become clear about the terrorists behind the attacks: they almost begged to be caught. Far from being the diabolically brilliant plotters they were assumed to be at first, they gave U.S. authorities one golden opportunity after another to discover and foil their plans. Yet the richest, largest, most technologically sophisticated intelligence-gathering system in the world let them slip through its fingers -- not once, not twice, but over and over again.
How could this happen? In Breakdown, America's premier national security reporter Bill Gertz reveals how, since the 1970s, liberals have ravaged the CIA and FBI until both were rendered incapable of effective clandestine operations. Using his extensive sources within the government and his unrivaled access to confidential documents, Gertz also uncovers extensive evidence of how Clinton Administration mismanagement of our military and intelligence operations made us sitting ducks for 9/11. And he tells us how our intelligence agencies and officials had information that could have prevented the attacks.
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-How Jimmy Carter and his CIA Director, Stansfield Turner, decimated the cream of the CIA's spy corps
-How Bill Clinton and his leftist partisans finished the job in the 1990s, turning the CIA into a "welfare bureaucracy" with few clandestine agents but plenty of lawyers and desk-bound "case workers"
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-Which Clinton-appointed CIA director set up a special "bin Laden" station - and staffed it with agents who had no foreign experience and couldn't speak Arabic
-How Bill Clinton's efforts to distract from his sex scandal "killed" the U.S. link to Osama bin Laden's private cell phone
-How Janet Reno made it virtually impossible for the CIA and FBI to gather intelligence on terrorists
-How the capture of al Qaeda member Abdul Hakim Murad revealed -- in 1995 -- practically the whole al Qaeda plot to train suicide hijackers to fly planes, but was ignored
-Who told the FBI its agents could NOT inspect Zacarias Moussaoui's laptop, which could have revealed key details of the September 11 plan
-How Clinton National Security Advisor Anthony Lake was suckered by bogus Iranian disinformation into driving one of our CIA's most promising Arabic-speaking agents out of the agency
-How the same agent warned of a massive terror attack weeks before September 11, but was disregarded because he was no longer with the CIA
-How Clinton's CIA Director John Deutch routinely typed his notes from secret meetings into an unsecured laptop -- and then e-mailed them using his America Online account!
-How Deutch hamstrung the CIA's Directorate of Operation with rules that deterred it from recruiting spies who could reveal terrorist operations
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-The outrageous restraints put on our intelligence agents who were hamstrung by fears of racism charges, forbidden to search the Internet for clues -- and instructed not to gather intelligence from informants unless they had the morals of Boy Scouts</font>
-Details of the "numerous intelligence reports" reaching CIA headquarters that al Qaeda was planning an attack -- as they had attacked American targets at least five times in five years
-Why the male intelligence analyst who warned in advance of the USS Cole bombing was ignored - but the female analyst who said such an attack was "impossible" was believed
-The hushed-up story of Bill Clinton's disastrous "Bay of Guam" -- a pathetically inept effort to remove an Islamic dictator
-How the CIA "lost" the one leader who could have stabilized post-Taliban Afghanistan
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-How the Left, led by Senators Frank Church and Ted Kennedy, devastated the FBI and left it incapable of collecting intelligence on terrorist cells operating in the U.S.
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-How the FBI, weakened by restrictions on its intelligence capability, notified the White House in 2000 that that were no al Qaeda cells operating in the United States
-How the National Security Agency (NSA) missed an al Qaeda cell of terrorists operating in Laurel, Maryland -- right next door to its headquarters at Fort Meade
-Details of a classified U.S. intelligence conference in March 2002 that revealed major weaknesses in intelligence six months after September 11
-The heroic combat vet who predicted the World Trade Center attacks - and died on September 11 while helping to save 3,500 workers
-The top-secret CIA report revealing Osama bin Laden's links to terrorist bombings in Saudi Arabia
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