Once again the so-called liberal media sensationalizes a story that helps the Bush Junta: “CIA internal inquiry finds agency failed to prevent 9/11.”
Oh, so George W. Bush — y’know, the guy who’s been pretending to be President the last seven years — had nothing to do with the attacks occurring? Bush ignoring the Presidential Daily Brief of August 6th, 2001 — the one that said Bin Ladin was determined to strike in the U.S. — played no part? It’s all the fault of former DCI George Tenet — the guy who recently wrote a scathing (albeit occasionally self-serving) tell-all about the Bushites?
How convenient.
But wait, what’s this?
“The agency and its officers did not discharge their responsibilities in a satisfactory manner,” the CIA inspector general found.
“They did not always work effectively and cooperatively,” the report stated.
Yet the review team led by Inspector General John Helgerson found neither a “single point of failure nor a silver bullet” that would have stopped the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
(Emphasis added)
Well, that bit is certainly in stark contrast to the headline, which made it sound like we should all get our pitchforks and torches and start hunting for Osama Bin Tenet.
What do you expect? The media invented sensationalized headlines – in blogspace we now refer to it as “linkbait”. It’s an disgusting but sadly accepted practice.