Allen, Mike. "Bush Seeks to Restrict Hill Probes of Sept. 11." Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2002, A4.
Materials arranged chronologically.
Allen, Mike. "Bush Seeks to Restrict Hill Probes of Sept. 11." Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2002, A4.
Pincus,
Walter. 2"House, Senate Intelligence Panels Set Joint Sept. 11 Probe."Washington
Post, 15 Feb. 2002, A18. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
On 14 February 2002, "[t]he leaders of the Senate and House intelligence committees ... announced a joint investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and said they will seek $2.6 million for the inquiry, which may end up recommending legislation to reorganize U.S. intelligence agencies."
Risen, James. "Panel to Review Readiness of Agencies Before Attacks." New York Times, 5 Mar. 2002, A10.
Pincus, Walter.
"Staff Director for Hill's Probe Into Terrorist
Attacks Resigns." Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2002, A5. [http//www.washingtonpost.com]
L. Britt Snider, staff director for the joint House and Senate investigation into the 11 September attacks, resigned on 26 April 2002.
Risen, James. "Reason Cited for Ousting of Terror Inquiry's Director: Staff Member's Security Problem is Blamed." New York Times, 9 May 2002, A34.
Priest, Dana, and Walter Pincus. "Strife, Dissent Beset Hill's Sept. 11 Panel." Washington Post, 20 May 2002, A11.
Washington
Post. "House-Senate Panel Starts Probing
9/11 Intelligence Failure." 5 Jun. 2002, A1. [http//www.washingtonpost.com]
On 4 June 2002, a House-Senate panel opened its "inquiry into the intelligence failure" surrounding the 11 September terrorist attacks in the United States. The 37-member panel is co-chaired by Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-FL) and Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL).
"In its opening session, the ... panel worked on the procedures that will govern its largely secret inquiry into the nation's ... intelligence system.... The panel began by setting ground rules and hearing from members of a specially formed staff who have begun sifting through a massive cache of highly classified documents turned over by the intelligence agencies.... Panel members heard from their new staff director, Eleanor Hill, a former Defense Department inspector general who is in her first week on the job. She was hired belatedly in a staff shake-up, and her arrival was delayed until she received a security clearance."
Thomas, Pierre, and Martha Raddatz. "A Big Warning: Security Agency Intercepted Arabic Conversation that Spoke of the Sept. 11 Attacks, But Failed to Translate It in Time," ABC News.com, 7 Jun. 2002. [http://www.abcnews.com]
Priest,
Dana, and Juliet Eilperin. "Disputes Stall Panel Probing Sept. 11 Lapses."
Washington Post, 14 Jun. 2002, A10 . [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"After meeting for two weeks and hearing from one witness, the special House-Senate intelligence panel investigating the Sept. 11 attacks bogged down [on 13 June 2002] amid differences among members over the panel's direction, schedule and access to classified information. The joint committee canceled a planned session, and Senate members met by themselves instead to discuss their dissatisfaction with the panel's performance, with some expressing unhappiness that their House colleagues have dominated the sessions."
Bash, Dana, and Kate Snow. "Messages Intercepted by U.S. on September 10 Revealed." CNN.com, 19 Jun. 2002. [http://www.cnn.com]
Eilperin, Juliet, and Dana Priest. "Sept. 11 Plot Likely Hatched in '98, Tenet Says." Washington Post, 19 Jun. 2002, A10.
Allen, Mike, and Juliet Eilperin. "Cheney Blames Leaks on Congress." Washington Post, June 21, 2002, p. A12.
Balachandran,
V. "Spy Who Went Cold." Asian Age, 10 Jul. 2002.
The author of this Op-ed piece in an Indian daily suggests that the U.S. Intelligence Community is suffering from a bad case of being over scrutinized. He notes that "[s]ome of the Aspin-Brown Commission's recommendations on the creation of posts resulted in a needless gridlock between the Congress and the Executive. The Scowcroft panel still wants to create a separate post of Director CIA who, with other directors of NIMA, NRO, NSA will work under the DCI. Many of these 'reorganisations' were meaningless knee-jerk exercises.... The American IC is now worried that they may be subjected to another dose of 'reorganisation' as a result of the present Congressional hearing."
Loeb,
Vernon. "Independent Sept. 11 Commission Gaining Ground." Washington
Post, 29 Jul. 2002. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
The U.S. House has added an amendment to the FY 2003 intelligence authorization bill to "create an independent commission to investigate possible Sept. 11 intelligence failures." This action seemed to be "a vote of no confidence in the House and Senate intelligence committees, which have postponed public hearings in their own probe and already concluded that the intelligence agencies could not have averted the terrorist attacks."
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