Intelligence Failures
Dana Priest and Dan Eggen report on yesterday’s joint intelligence committee report on our nation’s intelligence failures prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Although the panel’s staff unearthed no single intelligence report foreshadowing the particulars of the Sept. 11 strikes, the investigators assert that U.S. agencies failed to commit adequate resources and analysis to understanding and apprehending al Qaeda terrorists. They also say that policymakers failed to alert the public to the gravity and immediacy of the threats they were receiving.
Congress should immediately establish a commission to investigate these failures in full. The Bush Administration’s lack of cooperation is unacceptable.
Our government must undertake a full (and as public as possible) investigation of all of our intelligence and policy failures.
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