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by Robert Scheer, AlterNet
Posted on October 19, 2004
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It is shocking: The Bush administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/11 until after the election, and this one names
names. Although the report by the inspector general's office of the CIA was completed in June, it has not been made
available to the congressional intelligence committees that mandated the study almost two years ago.
"It is infuriating that a report which shows that high-level people were not doing their jobs in a satisfactory manner
before 9/11 is being suppressed," an intelligence official who has read the report told me, adding that "the report is
potentially very embarrassing for the administration, because it makes it look like they weren't interested in terrorism
before 9/11, or in holding people in the government responsible afterward."
When I asked about the report, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice), ranking Democratic member of the House Intelligence
Committee, said she and committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) sent a letter 14 days ago asking for it to be
delivered. "We believe that the CIA has been told not to distribute the report," she said. "We are very concerned."
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In September, the New York Times reported that several family members met with Goss privately to demand the release of
the CIA inspector general's report. "Three thousand people were killed on 9/11, and no one has been held accountable,"
9/11 widow Kristen Breitweiser told the paper.
The failure to furnish the report to Congress, said Harman, "fuels the perception that no one is being held accountable.
It is unacceptable that we don't have [the report]; it not only disrespects Congress but it disrespects the American
people."
The stonewalling by the Bush administration and the failure of Congress to gain release of the report have, said the
intelligence source, "led the management of the CIA to believe it can engage in a cover-up with impunity. Unless the
public demands an accounting, the administration and CIA's leadership will have won and the nation will have lost."
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