Another News Report About the CIA and Tenet Disappears

Michael P. Wright —
Norman, Oklahoma USA
mpwright9@aol.com

Yesterday, using the Google news search, I entered the name George Tenet, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, who resigned from that position in 2004. A link came up with the phrase "Tenet won’t take the rap for 9/11." This was a United Press International story. After clicking on the link, I learned that the story had already been taken down.

I was greeted with the phrase "Not Found," and the additional message: "The page you are looking for cannot be found."

http://about.upi.com/products/persp...

Washington Times columnist John B. Roberts II had also written about Tenet’s
intention to defend himself. He mentioned the fact that CIA Inspector General John Helgerson had issued a "scathing report" criticizing Tenet and other agency personnel for their failure to obstruct the 9/11 attack. The report recommends punitive sanctions against Tenet and was delivered to Congress this past week.

http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20...

Roberts discloses that Tenet has written a 20-page rebuttal against this report
to defend himself. He has hinted that Tenet may go so far as to attack Bush.

Tenet’s Perjury and Enormous Blunder of August 2001

Roberts wrote that "Tenet’s defense inevitably leads to the sensitive issue of the CIA briefings of the president and other senior officials in the summer of 2001." A prominent briefing of that period was the famous CIA report of August 6, which was declassified and made public in April 2004. The report incorporated an enormous blunder — the expectation that if any airliners were hijacked, they would be landed by terrorists for negotiation over political demands and release of hostages. There was no mention of the possibility of suicide crashes into buildings. Instead, the briefing stated:

"We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a [deleted] service in 1998 saying that Bin Laden wanted to hijack a U.S. aircraft to gain the release of ’Blind Sheikh’ Omar Abdel Rahman and other U.S.-held extremists."

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB...

Apparently not wanting to explain this extreme lapse of intelligence, Tenet perjured himself before the 9/11 Commission. He lied and told them that he
had not met with Bush in the month of August 2001. Even the lame 9/11 Commission, in its final report, stated that Tenet and Bush had met during that month, but instead of holding Tenet to account for perjury, they treated it as a mere "lapse of memory." See page 262 of the Commission report:

http://www.9-11commission.gov/repor...

Tenet Cleared Path for 9/11 Attack in August 2001

Tenet has had many apparent "lapses of memory." Time magazine reported (June 3, 2002) that in August 2001 the CIA had misinformed the FBI about Zacarias Moussaoui, who was later indicted and accused of conspiring with the 9/11 terrorists. Moussaoui has now pled guilty to all charges in the indictment. During August 2001 the CIA told the FBI that Moussaoui was merely a relgious extremist, but not an Al Qaeda member. Here is the Time article:

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Relying on this misleading advice from Tenet, the FBI headquarters denied the Minneapolis agents’ request for permission to search Moussaoui’s computer, after he had been arrested there. The 9/11 Commission admitted in its final report that a "maximum U.S. effort to investigate Moussaoui" at that time "might have brought investigators to the core of the 9/11 plot" and possibly derailed it (p. 276 — Norton edition). What was derailed instead was an effort which could have spared the nation the agony of 9/11 and all its consequences: wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, stock market crash, Patriot Act, and severe damage to the airline industry.

During a speech I attended at the University of Oklahoma, in response to a question from me, Tenet stated: "We knew who Moussaoui was all the time." He also said that the Time magazine article about the CIA’s having described Moussaoui as merely a religious extremist was "absolutely wrong." The Tenet speech was March 8, 2005. Tenet’s appearance on the OU campus was arranged by his mentor and patron, former Senator David Boren, who became the school’s president in 1994.

Other Disappearing News Reports About 9/11 and the CIA:

News Story With Allegations of CIA Crime Disappears:

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php...

KOCO-TV Suppresses an Explosive 9/11 News Report:

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php...

Summary of Comprehensive 9/11 Investigation:

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7529