08/23/07: CIA knew about al Qaeda in US before 9/11 and did nothing

James Gordon Meek

August 23, 2007 12:00am

UP TO 60 CIA spies saw secret reports about two "bin Laden associates" arriving in Los Angeles in early 2000 but didn't alert the FBI about the pair, who were among the September 11 hijackers, a blistering government report said yesterday.

"Some 50 to 60 individuals read one or more of six (CIA) cables containing travel information related to these terrorists," the CIA inspector-general's report concluded.

The report does not address whether US President George W. Bush and his White House advisers paid adequate attention to the al-Qaida threat in their first eight months in office.

The report heaps the most blame on former CIA director George Tenet for failing to use his clout to press the hunt for terror master Osama bin Laden before September 11.

http://tinyurl.com/33lo2y

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22290395-663,00.html

{;-) Dan in Miami

PS: No wonder the CIA tried to keep this report under wraps for two years. And we STILL don't have the full report, just the summary.

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• Richard Clark: "It was like the new admin. had been preseved in amber." Acronychal_Absquatulate
• This was because the CIA and the FBI weren't talking... sonofthedummy

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