Jehl, Douglas. "C.I.A. Chief Seeks Change in Inspector's 9/11 Report." New York Times, 2 Nov. 2004. [http://www.nytimes.com]
Jehl, Douglas. "C.I.A. Chief Seeks Change in Inspector's 9/11 Report." New York Times, 2 Nov. 2004. [http://www.nytimes.com]
According to Congressional and intelligence officials on 1 November 2004, a 27 October 2004 memorandum from DCI Porter J. Goss to Inspector General John Helgerson requests that "the C.I.A.'s inspector general ... modify a draft report on the Sept. 11 attacks to avoid drawing conclusions about whether individual C.I.A. officers should be held accountable for any failures."
[CIA/DCIs/Goss]
Jehl, Douglas. "C.I.A. Churning Continues as 2 Top Officials Resign." New York Times, 16 Nov. 2004. [http://www.nytimes.com]
On 15 November 2004, Deputy Director of Operations (DDO) Stephen R. Kappes and Associate Deputy Director of Operations Michael Sulick resigned from the CIA. According to "intelligence officials," the resignations came "after days of clashes with advisers" to DCI Porter J. Goss. "[A] covert officer who runs the agency's Counterterrorism Center" has been selected by Goss to become the new DDO. Officials "declined to name the officer, a former chief of American espionage operations in Latin America, because he is still under cover."
[CIA/00s/04/Gen]
Jehl, Douglas. "C.I.A. Disputes Accusations that Its Prewar Conclusions on Iraq Arms Were Flawed." New York Times, 25 Oct. 2003. [http://www.nytimes.com]
The CIA "responded angrily" on 24 October 2003 "to new Congressional criticism of its handling of prewar intelligence about Iraq's suspected illicit weapons program. At a briefing at C.I.A. headquarters, four senior intelligence officials said that a top-secret internal review now underway had found no evidence of faulty work."
[GenPostwar/00s/03/Congress]
Jehl, Douglas. "C.I.A. Is Reviewing Its Security Policy for Recruiting Translators." New York Times, 8 Jun. 2005. [http://www.nytimes.com]
According to Congressional and intelligence officials, the CIA "is reviewing security procedures that have led the agency to turn away large numbers of Arabic-language linguists and other potential recruits with skills avidly sought by the agency since the attacks of 2001."
[CIA/00s/05/Gen]
Jehl, Douglas.
"C.I.A. Nominee Wary of Budget Cuts." New York Times, 3
Feb. 1993, A18.
[GenPostwar/Budgets]
Jehl, Douglas. "C.I.A. Report Finds Its Officials Failed in Pre-9/11 Efforts." New York Times, 7 Jan. 2005. [http://www.nytimes.com]
According to current and former intelligence officials, "a near-final version of a report" by CIA Inspector General John Helgerson concludes that "officials who served at the highest levels of the agency should be held accountable for failing to allocate adequate resources to combating terrorism before the Sept. 11 attacks.... Among those most sharply criticized in the report, the officials said, are George J. Tenet, the former intelligence chief, and James L. Pavitt, the former deputy director of operations."
[CIA/00s/05/Gen]
Jehl, Douglas. "C.I.A. Review Is Critical of Prewar Iraq Analysis." New York Times, 22 Sep. 2004. [http://www.nytimes.com]
A "C.I.A. document, dated August 2004..., summarizes conclusions reached by a panel called the Iraq W.M.D. Review Group, which completed a 10-month review in May but has not made its findings public. Among the analytical flaws identified in the group's report were what was described as 'imprecise language' and 'insufficient follow-up' as well as 'sourcing problems' in the prewar intelligence on Iraq.... In particular, the document says, the now-discredited National Intelligence Estimate of October 2002, which found that Iraq possessed chemical and biological weapons and was reconstituting its nuclear program, was not double-checked to be sure that its assertions were properly backed up."
[CIA/00s/04/Gen; GenPostCW/00s/04/WMD]
Jehl, Douglas.
"C.I.A. to Have Role in Inquiry on Jerusalem
Bombings." New York Times, 13 Aug. 1997. [http://www.nytimes.com]
According to senior American officials, "Israeli and Palestinian authorities have agreed to report all they have learned about the suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market [on 30 July 1997] to a three-way panel whose American representative will be the CIA station chief in Tel Aviv."
[CIA/90s/97/Gen]
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