FC: Intel analyst accuses American journalists of "treason"

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54650-2002Jun14.html
By Dennis Pluchinsky
Sunday, June 16, 2002; Page B03

I accuse the media in the United States of treason.

I have been analyzing terrorism for the U.S. government for 25 years. My 
specialty is "threat analysis." This is a rather difficult field that 
requires the imagination of Walt Disney, the patience of a kindergarten 
teacher, the mind-set of a chess player, the resolve of a Boston Red Sox 
fan, the mental acuity of a river boat gambler, and the forecasting ability 
of a successful stock market analyst.

While the media have, over the past several weeks, written extensively on 
alleged intelligence "failures" surrounding the events of Sept. 11, I want 
to address the media's common-sense "failures." As a terrorism analyst, I 
am both appalled and confused by many of the post-9/11 articles published 
at home and abroad, in newspapers, news magazines and academic journals, as 
well as on the Internet.

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