CIA Report Blames Tenet for 9/11 Failure
A newly released internal CIA report lays the "ultimate blame" for a lack of strategy to combat al-Qaida before 9/11 on former Director George Tenet, who calls the charge "flat wrong." Congress ordered the declassification of the scathing document, which was completed in 2005.
A newly released internal CIA report lays the “ultimate blame” for a lack of strategy to combat al-Qaida before 9/11 on former Director George Tenet, who calls the charge “flat wrong.” Congress ordered the declassification of the scathing document, which was completed in 2005.
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The review team led by Inspector General John Helgerson found no “single point of failure” that would have stopped the attacks on 11 September 2001.
But he says US spy agencies lacked a comprehensive plan to counter al-Qaeda.
The report concludes that Mr Tenet “by virtue of his position, bears ultimate responsibility for the fact that no such strategic plan was ever created”.
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