Intelligence Matters: The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia, and the Failure of America's War on TerrorRandom House Publishing Group, 14 сент. 2004 г. - Всего страниц: 320 In this explosive, controversial, and profoundly alarming insider’s report, Senator Bob Graham reveals faults in America’s national security network severe enough to raise fundamental questions about the competence and honesty of public officials in the CIA, the FBI, and the White House. For ten years, Senator Graham served on the Senate Intelligence Committee, where he had access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded secrets. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, Graham co-chaired a historic joint House-Senate inquiry into the intelligence community’s failures. From that investigation and his own personal fact-finding, Graham discovered disturbing evidence of terrorist activity and a web of complicity: • At one point, a terrorist support network conducted some of its operations through Saudi Arabia’s U.S. embassy–and a funding chain for terrorism led to the Saudi royal family. • In February 2002, only four months after combat began in Afghanistan, the Bush administration ordered General Tommy Franks to move vital military resources out of Afghanistan for an operation against Iraq–despite Franks’s privately stated belief that there was a job to finish in Afghanistan, and that the war on terrorism should focus next on terrorist targets in Somalia and Yemen. • Throughout 2002, President Bush directed the FBI to limit its investigations of Saudi Arabia, which supported some and possibly all of the September 11 hijackers. • The White House was so uncooperative with the bipartisan inquiry that its behavior bore all the hallmarks of a cover-up. • The FBI had an informant who was extremely close to two of the September 11 hijackers, and actually housed one of them, yet the existence of this informant and the scope of his contacts with the hijackers were covered up. • There were twelve instances when the September 11 plot could have been discovered and potentially foiled. • Days after 9/11, U.S. authorities allowed some Saudis to fly, despite a complete civil aviation ban, after which the government expedited the departure of more than one hundred Saudis from the United States. • Foreign leaders throughout the Middle East warned President Bush of exactly what would happen in a postwar Iraq, and those warnings went either ignored or unheeded. As a result of his Senate work, Graham has become convinced that the attacks of September 11 could have been avoided, and that the Bush administration’s war on terrorism has failed to address the immediate danger posed by al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia. His book is a disturbing reminder that at the highest levels of national security, now more than ever, intelligence matters. |
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... attacks of September 11 , 2001 , Graham co - chaired a historic joint House - Senate inquiry into the intelligence community's failures . From that investigation and his own personal fact- finding , Graham discovered disturbing evidence ...
... attacks of September 11 , 2001 , Graham co - chaired a historic joint House - Senate inquiry into the intelligence community's failures . From that investigation and his own personal fact- finding , Graham discovered disturbing evidence ...
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... Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11 , 2001 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES INDEX 190 199 211 217 235 255 269 273 279 INTRODUCTION The Realities of Today When I entered the conference.
... Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11 , 2001 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES INDEX 190 199 211 217 235 255 269 273 279 INTRODUCTION The Realities of Today When I entered the conference.
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... attacking the United States of America ? Though we hadn't finished our meeting yet , the breakfast disbanded . Senator ... attacks of September 11 did more than take 3,000 innocent American lives ; they laid bare the holes in America's ...
... attacking the United States of America ? Though we hadn't finished our meeting yet , the breakfast disbanded . Senator ... attacks of September 11 did more than take 3,000 innocent American lives ; they laid bare the holes in America's ...
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... attacks to take place . Ultimately , I would reach the conclusion that Sep- tember 11 was the culmination of a long trail of American intelligence failures both at home and abroad - an almost bewildering array of mistakes , missteps ...
... attacks to take place . Ultimately , I would reach the conclusion that Sep- tember 11 was the culmination of a long trail of American intelligence failures both at home and abroad - an almost bewildering array of mistakes , missteps ...
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... attacks of September 11 , a new consensus began to emerge . As much as our intelligence com- munity may have failed us , Americans , pragmatic people that we are , recognized that September 11 was not the first attack on America by a ...
... attacks of September 11 , a new consensus began to emerge . As much as our intelligence com- munity may have failed us , Americans , pragmatic people that we are , recognized that September 11 was not the first attack on America by a ...
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Beginning Training | 24 |
A Gathering Storm | 32 |
Hanjour Joins alHazmi | 40 |
Teaming Up | 58 |
Terrorists on the Move | 66 |
A Meeting at MacDill | 122 |
The Inquiry Begins | 129 |
Into the Middle East | 142 |
Discoveries in San Diego | 159 |
A Slam Dunk? | 178 |
Blood on Your Hands | 190 |
Final Battles | 211 |
Lessons Learned | 235 |
Final Preparations | 72 |
Zero Hour 16 | 91 |
Part II | 101 |
The Aftermath | 103 |
RECOMMENDATIONS of the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence | 255 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 269 |
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Стр. 105 - President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.
Стр. 89 - WHEN spring-time flushes the desert grass, Our kafilas wind through the Khyber Pass. Lean are the camels but fat the frails, Light are the purses but heavy the bales, As the snowbound trade of the North comes down To the market-square of Peshawur town.
Стр. 80 - Bin Ladin implied in US television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousel and "bring the fighting to America.
Стр. 31 - Hostility toward America is a religious duty, and we hope to be rewarded for it by God .... I am confident that Muslims will be able to end the legend of the so-called superpower that is America.
Стр. 178 - Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction...
Стр. 81 - FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.
Стр. 107 - The combination of unconventional weapons proliferation with the persistence of international terrorism will end the relative invulnerability of the US homeland to catastrophic attack. A direct attack against American citizens on American soil is likely over the next quarter century.
Стр. 44 - Laden to send students to the United States to attend civil aviation universities and colleges. Phoenix has observed an inordinate number of individuals of investigative interest who are attending or who have attended civil aviation universities and colleges in the state of Arizona.
Стр. 108 - Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.