The report that was supposed to “get to the bottom of things” didn’t.
The fact that the authors themselves admitted that they really didn’t want to probe the problem Israel caused for the U.S. of course was the major problem with the report. The political problem driving all of the other problems can’t be touched because it is too politically dangerous.
Another problem was that it was assumed that much would be hidden from them and they would never know. But in this instance, they found out. Who knows what else is out there that they don’t know they didn’t receive?
Remember that the CIA supported these “terrorist” groups in order to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan. In the entangled world of espionage, there are numerous embarrassing relationships and facts that the CIA doesn’t want the public to know that are far less positive than the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan.
OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS STONEWALLED BY THE C.I.A.
By THOMAS H. KEAN and LEE H. HAMILTON
MORE than five years ago, Congress and President Bush created the 9/11 commission. The goal was to provide the American people with the fullest possible account of the “facts and circumstances relating to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001” — and to offer recommendations to prevent future attacks. Soon after its creation, the president’s chief of staff directed all executive branch agencies to cooperate with the commission.
The commission’s mandate was sweeping and it explicitly included the intelligence agencies. But the recent revelations that the C.I.A. destroyed videotaped interrogations of Qaeda operatives leads us to conclude that the agency failed to respond to our lawful requests for information about the 9/11 plot. Those who knew about those videotapes — and did not tell us about them — obstructed our investigation.
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