Killing the CIA (More Oedipus Rex, no doubt)

I still think it odd in the extreme that the two men held over from the Clinton administration, by the anti-Clinton Bushites, were the two men whose agencies were the most closely, publicaly identified with what went wrong on 9/11. Minetta at transportation (FAA) and Tenet at the CIA. Minetta has managed to hang on, but Tenet was used as a fall guy for everyhing that has gone wrong, even though he warned the administration again and again.

Then we found out about all the funny business that was happening within the FBI, but during the summer of 2001, while Tenet was running around with his hair on fire, telling everyone who would listen that we were going to be hit, that agency was still being run by the Clinton-hating Louis Freeh.

Mueller did not even have time to unpack his brief case between the time he was appointed to head the FBI and the 9/11 attacks, so he was off the hook.

Now we have Hayden, who was at the NSA that summer which had, apparently, intercepted Al Qaeda communications which were never even translated. They didn't have time? Odd. Seems they now have time for spying on Bushite political enemies within the U.S., huge data collection activites on all Americans, with the help of Verizon, AT&T and Bell South.

Wy doesn't someone arrest these traitors?

Killing the CIA Salon.com:

"May 11, 2006 The moment that the destruction of the Central Intelligence Agency began can be pinpointed to a time, a place and even a memo. On Aug. 6, 2001, CIA director George Tenet presented to President Bush his presidential daily briefing, a startling document titled 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' Bush did nothing, asked for no further briefings on the issue, and returned to cutting brush at his Crawford, Texas, compound.

In Bush's denial of responsibility after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the search for scapegoats inevitably focused on the lapse in intelligence and therefore on the CIA, though it was the FBI whose egregious incompetence permitted the plotters to escape apprehension. Bush's intent to invade Iraq set up the battle royal that followed. "