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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (567)	7/19/2002 4:26:08 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

Inquiry faults CIA for failing to recruit 'dirty' agents James Risen The New York Times Thursday, July 18, 2002 WASHINGTON The Central Intelligence Agency's failure to penetrate the leadership of Al Qaeda before Sept. 11 was due to a risk-averse culture that made the agency hesitant to recruit informers inside the terrorist network, leaders of a congressional inquiry into the American intelligence community said on Wednesday. As part of a broad and critical survey of the performance of three main agencies in the war on terrorism - the CIA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency - a House intelligence subcommittee concluded that one of the CIA's central failings before Sept. 11 was its inability to penetrate Al Qaeda adequately. Without informers in or near the leadership of the group, the CIA was unable to provide any specific warnings of the attacks on New York and the Pentagon. The subcommittee chairman, Representative Saxby Chambliss, Republican of Georgia, said that the CIA failed to get any informers close enough to Osama bin Laden to learn his plans. [...] iht.com ROFL.... The irony is, US intelligence did have a "dirty agent" at hand --FBI Russia-expert Robert Hanssen... and they threw him in jail! :o(