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...report by the 9/11 commission cites a CIA field official as saying that last case in particular was a lost opportunity to kill bin Laden before 9/11. It might have helped if the CIA under Clinton had been clear on its orders. Officials of the agency, from director George Tenet to operatives in the field, believed that bin Laden could be killed only in the course of a legitimate capture attempt. Clinton White House officials say their position was that he was fair game. Both sides now say they were unaware that they had different interpretations of the orders...
...intelligence officials acknowledge that the U.S.'s success in dismantling bin Laden's organization has not lessened the threat of Islamic terrorism. Al-Qaeda has spawned a movement greater than itself. "Al-Qaeda has infected others with its ideology," CIA director George Tenet said recently. "Other extremist groups within the movement it influenced have become the next wave of the terrorist threat." That only makes them harder to find and stop. Even in hindsight, there was no electronic chatter, no rumor, nothing from interrogations hinting at an attack before the train bombers struck in Madrid. The amorphous nature...
...there are areas where I thought someone said something they shouldn't say, I talked to them about it." GEORGE TENET, CIA chief, asked whether he confronted Administration officials who made misleading public statements regarding U.S. intelligence on Iraq...
...Last week, CIA director George Tenet told the Senate that al-Qaeda has morphed into a loose and expanding association of regional terror cells linked less by chains of command and communication than by a common vision of jihad against the U.S. The growing embrace of the movement's goals and tactics by terror cells with no direct operational connection to bin Laden's network, said Tenet, means that "a serious threat will remain for the foreseeable future, with or without al-Qaeda in the picture...
...Osama bin Laden the idea has transcended the fate of Osama bin Laden the man. As long as bin Laden refuses to be taken alive and humiliated like Saddam Hussein, his elimination - as CIA director Tenet suggests - is unlikely to have a significant impact on the terror threat facing the West. His call to violence against the West and its allies has now infected scores of local groups that are able to reproduce themselves ad infinitum as growing hostility to the U.S. produces new generations of willing recruits. Even such establishment voices as London's prestigious International Institute of Strategic...