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MacCruiskeen
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 Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:41 am Post subject: Scheuer: CIA Threatened 9/11 Commissioners |
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This is from a poster at DU named KJF:
| Quote: | Scheuer: CIA Threatened 9/11 Commissioners over Naming of Junior Officer
In his new book Marching Toward Hell, former Alec Station chief Michael Scheuer describes an incident where CIA officers threatened the 9/11 Commission. First, he recounts how former CIA director George Tenet fired a young low level CIA employee for the US bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Serbia in 1999. Then, he says:
| Quote: | | "In the same way, in early 2004, the 9/11 commissioners indicated that they were intending to name an even younger CIA officer as the only individual to be publicly identified for a pre-9/11 failure. A group of senior CIA officers, however, let it be known that if that officer was named, information about the pre-9/11 negligence of several very senior US officials would find its way into the media. The commissioners dropped the issue." |
It's in a footnote on page 273.
I wonder who the junior officer is - Clark Shannon? There's really not much criticism of any of the junior officers in the final report.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x200795 |
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MacCruiskeen
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| Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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Bumping. I think this is an important story, because I don't recall many other high-level insiders* asserting that:
1) the 9/11 Commission succumbed to what was essentially blackmail;
2) "information about the pre-9/11 negligence of several very senior US officials" was - and still is! - being deliberately concealed by the CIA.
So how senior is "very senior"? Who were those officials? What was the exact nature of their "negligence" [sic]? (It must have been pretty damn serious negligence if the Commission reacted to the CIA's threat the way Scheuer says they did.)
In a sane world, the media would be all over this.
*From Wiki, for the sake of speed:
| Quote: | Michael F. Scheuer is a former CIA employee. In his 22-year career, he served as the Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station (aka "Alec Station"), from 1996 to 1999, the Osama bin Laden tracking unit at the Counterterrorist Center. He then worked again as Special Advisor to the Chief of the bin Laden unit from September 2001 to November 2004.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scheuer |
PS - I know they say there's no such thing as a former CIA employee, but I can't see what the CIA would have to gain by having Scheuer say what he says here. |
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AlanStrangis
Joined: 19 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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Though Imperial Hubris has some good points, I haven't bothered to pick up Marching Toward Hell (though I yet may).
From what I have read, Mr. Scheuer's latest still works in the 'we REALLY need to focus on the terrorists, folks' vein. Even though he does level a lot of criticism toward his own gov't, not just this administration, it's all couched within that 'us vs. them' framework.
Now, if he had the cajones to name some of those senior US officials...  |
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