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• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06718920
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: November 10, 2022
• Case Number: F-2017-01736
• Publication Date: September 17, 2007

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officials should face review boards to fur-
ther -evaluate 'their action's, the report
said. in juiie 2005, then-CIA directorPor;
ter Goss rejected that proposal, a
� sion the agency's current director, Gen.
.Michael Hayden, said he supported:
. Hayden told CIA employees in state'-
nnent Tuesday that he opposed declassi-
ing and releasing the :report because
counterterrorism plan until alter the Sep- that Would "distract officers serving ...
tember 2001 attacks, the CIA inspector Tenet Says agency's' ' on the front lines of a global conflict:"
general charged in an internal report par- report is "flat wrong." The inspector generals sun-nary was
tially declassified on 'Iliesday required to be released under a law
said the pre-9/11 CIA failed to develop failures
some recommendations of the 9/11
,month that implemented
The report, completed in June 2005, 'The fact that passed this
"assets" needed to disrupt al-Qaeda. be- were
fore it launched its devastating attacks.
Echoing the public 9/11 Commission Re-
port in 2004, the CIA watchdog also criti-
cized the agency for not sharing intelli-
gence that could have led authorities to
two 9/11 hijackers who traveled to the
USA in 2000 and 2001.
Neither the CIA nor its officers dis-
charged "their responsibilities in a satis-
factory manner," inspector General John
Helgerson concluded in the report's 19-
page summary.
However, the summary also found "no
silver bullet" or "single point of failure"
that "would have enabled the intelligence
Community to predict or prevent the 9/11
attacks."
Tenet, who resigned in 2004, said in a
statement Tuesday that the report is "flat
wrong" in its assertion that the CIA lacked
a clear plan. Instead, he said, the agency
failure to follow up
on al-Qaeda threat
By Richard Willing �
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON -- CIA Director George
Tenet declared "war' on al-Qaeda in 1998'
but failed to follow up with a thoroUgh
systemic should
not absolve
responsible
Officials from
accountability.'
� John Helgerson,
CIA inspector general,
in report's 19-page
summary
'There was in fact
a robust plan (to
fight terrorism)
dating back to
long before 9t11.'
George.Tenet,
in a statement
Commission.
Although Hayden said the report is
mostly old new, it included several
points that were either new or offered in-
ternal CIA views that had not been made
public. For example:
* The CIA targeted 9/11 mastermind
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for capture
and rendition but did not "recognize the.:
significance" of his role in al-Qaeda,
* No comprehensive study of Opacna
bin Laden was written after 1993. "Sctra-
tegic analysis" of al-Qaeda was lacking.
* The CIA and National Security Agen-
cy were sometimes unclear abo'ur their
pre-9/11 roles in pursuit of al-Qae4a.
* As many as 60 CIA officials read at �
least one cable in 2000 or 2001 dealing
with the American travel plaris of two
'9/11 hijackers, but the information
wasn't quickly shared with domestic law
enforcement.
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