IP: Chairman Sees No Intelligence Failure (or you got to e kidding djf)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 8:15 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- There was no major intelligence failure by the U.S. 
government in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the chairman of the House 
Intelligence Committee said Tuesday.
``Not at all,'' Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., said on CBS' ``The Early Show.''

``It was a combined failure of all our government protection assets just 
not having the right information on the right day,'' said Goss, a former 
CIA agent. ``We've got plenty of areas we can improve, but I don't want 
anyone to get the idea that that was a great intelligence failure.
``If it was anything, it was probably 'who would have expected an atrocity 
of that magnitude?''' he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Attacks-Intelligence.html



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