July 8, 2004

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  BREAKING:

  
  

   

  
  

  Congressional Joint Inquiry into the CIA Post 9/11 Echoes Blogbat

  
  

   

  
  

  08.July.2004 Senate Panel to Blast CIA, But Not Bush, on Iraq Intelligence

  
  

   

  
  

  24.June.2004 House Report Calls CIA ‘Dysfunctional’

  
  

   

  
  

  Full Congressional Joint Inquiry Reports

  
  

   

  
  

  Both reports seem to agree on one key point. The CIA has devolved into something fairly dysfunctional. A word Blogbat used to describe the CIA and the State Department in his 03 June Blog, “Big News, Relevant Thoughts”.
  

  
  

  
  An excerpt below:

  
  

   

  
  

  “It is clear today that President Bush, Secretary Powell and others have been forced to work within the limitations of an occasionally dysfunctional executive system (including the State Department, the Pentagon and so forth) that has caused logistical, as well as huge P.R. nightmares for the people who count on correct data to support their credibility in foreign policy and elsewhere. And of course, habitual high-profile failures = executive turnover”

  
  

   
  In the reports, former CIA director George Tenet defends the agency by pointing out only that they were able to find nuclear ties between North Korea and Pakistan, something which arguably was already widely known at the time.
  
  -Blogbat
  
  
  

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