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...What was the scariest part? When the militiamen accused me of being a spy, pointed a gun at me, and released the safety. They asked if I was spying for the cia or fbi, and wouldn't believe me when I said neither...
...that had been rocketing back and forth between intelligence agencies with titles like "Bin Laden Planning High-Profile Attacks" and "Islamic Extremist Learns to Fly." Or that CIA chief George Tenet looked around in the summer of 2001 and saw that "the system was blinking red." Or that the FBI's chief of counterterrorism said he wished he had 500 analysts tracking the army of Osama bin Laden in those days--"instead of two." Or that few of the 56 FBI field offices around the country could remember receiving any of the special alarms that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice...
...FBI BE SAVED...
Whether Bush and Congress, which would have to approve any major reforms, can truly transform the FBI and the CIA is anyone's guess. Neither political party is overflowing with will--or goodwill--at the moment, and big changes have not been the capital's forte for a decade or more. Washington has not been sitting on its hands since 9/11, but the repairs it has made in the way the feds gather and share intelligence have come mostly at the margins, little fixes to huge federal bureaucracies--in the words of Tenet, evolutionary, not revolutionary, change. That's partly...
Perhaps because it was the most dysfunctional agency of all, the FBI has done the most to try to heal itself since 9/11. It is practically impossible to adequately describe how unfit the FBI has become over the past 25 years. The bureau had a long string of abysmal failures that included the botched standoff at Ruby Ridge and the betrayal by Robert Hanssen, who spied for the Russians for years while working inside the FBI. And many of the things that went "according to the book" inside the FBI made no sense at all. For years agents were barred...