The FBI couldn't find two Russian born terrorists in Boston before they bombed the Marathon and they dropped the investigation on the terrorist in Fla just before he shot up a nightclub. The FBI director gave a compelling case to indict Mrs. Clinton and declined to recommend indictment.
And yet the FBI isn't among the bureaus Trump has stated he intends to "revamp"
Meanwhile the CIA hasn't been on top of any world event since the agency was used illegally by JFK to raise an army to invade Cuba. Where was the CIA when illegal alien terrorists were attending flight school learning how to steer a plane into a building?
June 28, 2001:
CIA Director George J. Tenet has been "nearly frantic" with concern. A written intelligence summary for national security adviser Condoleezza Rice says: "It is highly likely that a significant al Qaeda attack is in the near future, within several weeks." Rice will later claim that everyone was taken by complete surprise by the 9/11 attack. By late summer, one senior political appointee says, Tenet had repeated this threat "so often that people got tired of hearing it." [
Washington Post, 5/17/02]
July 4-14, 2001:
Bin Laden reportedly receives kidney treatment from Canadian-trained Dr. Callaway at the American Hospital in Dubai. Telephoned several times, the doctor declines to answer questions. During his stay, bin Laden allegedly is visited by one or two CIA officers. [
Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, Times of London]
July 10, 2001:
A Phoenix FBI agent sends a memorandum warning about Middle Eastern men taking flight lessons. He suspects bin Laden's followers and recommends a national program to check visas of suspicious flight-school students. The memo is sent to two FBI counter-terrorism offices, but no action is taken. [
New York Times, 5/21/02] Vice President Cheney says in May 2002 that he opposes releasing this memo to congressional leaders or to the media and public. [
CNN, 5/20/02]
July 26, 2001:
CBS News reports that Attorney General Ashcroft has stopped flying commercial airlines due to a threat assessment, but "neither the FBI nor the Justice Department ... would identify [to CBS] what the threat was, when it was detected or who made it." [
CBS, 7/26/01] "Ashcroft demonstrated an amazing lack of curiosity when asked if he knew anything about the threat. 'Frankly, I don't,' he told reporters." [
San Francisco Chronicle, 6/3/02]
It is later reported that he stopped flying in July based on threat assessments made on May 8 and June 19. In May 2002, it's claimed the threat assessment had nothing to do with al-Qaeda, but Ashcroft walked out of his office rather than answer questions about it. [
AP, 5/16/02] The
San Francisco Chronicle concludes, "The FBI obviously knew something was in the wind ... The FBI did advise Ashcroft to stay off commercial aircraft. The rest of us just had to take our chances." [
San Francisco Chronicle, 6/3/02]
Aug 6, 2001:
President Bush is warned by US intelligence that bin Laden might be planning to hijack commercial airliners. The White House waits eight months after 9/11 to reveal this fact. [
New York Times, 5/16/02] Titled "
Bin Laden Determined To Strike in US," the intelligence briefing specifically mentions the World Trade Center. Yet Bush later states the briefing memo "said nothing about an attack on America." [
CNN, 4/12/04,
Washington Post, 4/12/04,
CNN, 4/10/04,
Intelligence Briefing, 8/6/01, T
he President's Daily Brief]
A Congressional report later describes this memo mentioning "that members of al-Qaeda, including some US citizens, had resided in or traveled to the US for years and that the group apparently maintained a support structure here. The report cited uncorroborated information obtained in 1998 that bin Laden wanted to hijack airplanes to gain the release of US-held extremists. It also described FBI judgments about patterns of activity consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, and a number of bin Laden-related investigations underway." [
Senate Intelligence Committee, 9/18/02]
Aug 24, 2001:
Frustrated with lack of response from FBI headquarters about detained suspect Moussaoui, the Minnesota FBI begins working with the CIA. The CIA sends alerts calling him a "suspect 747 airline suicide hijacker." Three days later an FBI Minnesota supervisor says he is trying to make sure that Moussaoui does not "take control of a plane and fly it into the World Trade Center." [
Senate Intelligence Committee, 10/17/02] FBI headquarters chastises Minnesota FBI for notifying the CIA. [
Time, 5/21/02] FBI Director Mueller will later say "there was nothing the agency could have done to anticipate and prevent the [9/11] attacks." [
Senate Intelligence Committee, 9/18/02,
more]
Sept 10, 2001:
Former president Bush is with a brother of Osama bin Laden at a Carlyle business conference. The conference is interrupted the next day by the attacks. [
Global Research]
Sept 10, 2001:
Defense Secretary Rumsfeld announces that by some estimates the Department of Defense "cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions." CBS later calculates that 25% of the yearly defense budget is unaccounted for. A defense analyst says, "The books are cooked routinely year after year." [
DOD, 9/10/01,
CBS, 1/29/02] This announcement was buried by the next day's news of 9/11.
The fact of the matter is that unless there's a public need to know, you, I and everyone else will not be informed of what the CIA gets right or "is on top of." What the general public becomes aware of consists almost entirely of the abject blunders. The public needs to think about it a bit more carefully than you've expressed above.
Count the disclosed blunders (
here are some CIA predictions, but I'm not suggesting they are all there are). Then count the number of years over which they occurred. Then consider the size of the CIA and how many thousands of employees it has. With those things in mind, do you honestly think that the blunders that have made their way into the public eye are all the CIA worked on over all those years? (
David Ignatius - When the CIA Got It Right)
You seem to think they've gotten so much wrong, so to prove your claim, I ask you to show us a list of
all the CIA have tried to do and all its predictions and just note which ones are accurate and which aren't. I know you can't do that any more than I can. The point is that when you don't know something, and you cannot back it up with facts, it is irresponsible to make claims about it and expect to be taken as anything but a quack.
You almost gotta laugh that the only time the CIA seemed to react was when socialite Valerie Plame was allegedly "outed" by Fox and then they got it wrong. There are so many traitors and so much negligence among (competing?) "intelligence agencies" that there are no secrets left. Trump is right....drain the swamp.
Who got what wrong?
Traitors are people who commit treason.
Treason against the United States is:
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
You seem to
know of treasonous acts, so you should probably notify somebody in a position to do something about it. Or are you comments about there being "so many traitors...among intelligence agencies," with the implication that those traitors have disclosed our nation's secrets, just bombast you can share here because USMB makes it possible for you to do so? Just how confident are you about the presence of traitors in our intelligence community? Do you actually know of the secrets they've disclosed? I know the FBI and CIA are always willing to receive good intel.
