Accountability, Bush style

**Hurin_Rules** · 10-05-2005, 23:36

Surprise, surprise: there will be no investigation of CIA officials for the largest intelligence failure in US history. Any bets that Bush will back the decision of his appointee Goss?

No disciplinary review for 9/11 failures of Tenet
CIA director bars accountability review for his predecessor, others

Updated: 4:44 p.m. ET Oct. 5, 2005
WASHINGTON - Contrary to recommendations, CIA Director Porter Goss will not order disciplinary reviews for the agency’s former director George Tenet and other officials who have come under fire for their performance before the attacks of Sept 11, 2001.

In a statement Wednesday, Goss said a report by the agency’s independent watchdog did not suggest “that any one person or group of people could have prevented 9/11.”

“After great consideration of this report and its conclusion, I will not convene an accountability board to judge the performances of any individual CIA officers,” he said.

Half of those named in the report have retired from the agency. “Those who are still with us are amongst the finest we have,” Goss added.

A joint congressional inquiry investigating 9/11 asked the CIA’s inspector general to review whether any agency officials should be held personally accountable and disciplined for failures before the suicide hijackings.

Spanning hundreds of pages, the report completed this summer recommended accountability reviews for former director Tenet and other current and former officials. Limited details have been provided by individuals familiar with report who spoke only on condition of anonymity because it remains classified.

Goss indicated he will make little — if any — of the document public, saying now is not the time to reveal how intelligence is collected and analyzed.

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**Xiahou** · 10-05-2005, 23:40

Tenet was a Clinton appointee wasn't he? I think this is just the CIA protecting it's own.... nothing suprising there.

**Spetulhu** · 10-06-2005, 01:15

Originally Posted by Xiahou

Tenet was a Clinton appointee wasn't he? I think this is just the CIA protecting it's own.... nothing suprising there.

So it's Clinton's fault?

**Hurin_Rules** · 10-06-2005, 02:28

Goss is a Bush appointee. Where is the accountability here?

**Redleg** · 10-06-2005, 03:00

Originally Posted by Hurin_Rules

Goss is a Bush appointee. Where is the accountability here?

You have to find out if Bush has stated anything about this or not - before you can say he is at fault. It could be nothing more then an adminstrator of the CIA doing what he wants to do - and letting it be known without consulting the White House. Or it could be what you are attempting to state it is. Or it could be somewhere in the middle.

**Red Harvest** · 10-06-2005, 03:35

Goss is a Bush appointee, and it seems reasonable to me that those identified as having made these sorts of mistakes should face the accountability board. Afterall...that's what it is there for. Goss made the call...and he should be somewhat accountable to Bush, so perhaps Dubya should be placing a call about now.

Accountability is not high on the Bush agenda. I doubt that will ever change.