Michael F. Scheuer former chief of the Al Qaeda analytic station, just slammed John Brennan, George Tenet, and Sandy Berger on CNN (12:50 Eastern time). He stated that among those who died in Afghanistan recently was the officer who devised a workable plan for eliminating Osama Bin Laden, a plan that was cancelled by Brennan, Tenet, and Burger, all saying we should leave the problem to Saudi Arabia.
Their reluctance is consistent with decades of policy forbidding unilateral clandestine operations within the territories of the despotic regimes that are consider our “best pals” in “higher ends” that favor the state over the people.
Brennan is best known for his mis-handling of the massive watchlist that still does not work; Tenet is best known for “slam dunk” fraud in support of Dick Cheney, and for declaring war on Bin Laden in a whisper; Berger is best known for leaving the Kurds hanging, a story told by Robert Baur in one of his books, and for stealing documents from the national archives. He has not produced a book of note.
From where we sit, the honest case officers and analysts are finally being heard, and the “politicals” are finally being held accountable, even if only in isolated public denouncements, for their decades of dishonest intelligence management, dishonest mismanagement that continues today.
See also:
Journal: Director of National Intelligence Alleges….
Journal: The Demise of US Intelligence Qua Brains
Journal: Death of CIA Personnel in Afghanistan
Review: Marching Toward Hell–America and Islam After Iraq
Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror
Review: See No Evil–The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA’s War on Terrorism
Review: Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude
Review: At the Center of the Storm–My Years at the CIA