FC: NSA draws fire on Capitol Hill for 9-11 non-warning, from Time

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[Doug covers national security topics for Time in the magazine's Washington 
bureau. --Declan]


http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,322587,00.html

   The NSA Draws Fire
   A scathing House report charges the agency is badly mismanaged

   BY DOUGLAS WALLER
   Saturday, Jul. 20, 2002

   The FBI and the CIA have come under plenty of fire for their failure
   to prevent 9/11. Now, it seems, it?s the turn of the National Security
   Agency (NSA). The agency, whose job is to protect U.S. government
   information and ferret out foreign secrets, has already drawn
   criticism for being slow to analyze two cryptic messages it
   intercepted last Sept. 10, warning that something big was going to
   happen the next day. Now a scathing report issued by the House
   Intelligence Committee has concluded that the agency is badly
   mismanaged -- congressional sources tell TIME -- which resulted in its
   failing "to provide tactical and strategic warning" of Sept. 11.

   [...]




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