Slow-walked and stonewalled

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 28-37

  Prados, John ^a  

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EID: 77949682746     PISSN: 00963402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2968/059002009     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. See Loch K. Johnson, A Season of Inquiry (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1986).
2. Kathryn S. Olmstead, Challenging the Secret Government: The Post-Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).
3. Frank J. Smist, Jr., Congress Oversees the United States Intelligence Community, 1947-1989 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990).
4. See John Prados, Presidents' Secret Wars: CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations from World War II through the Persian Gulf (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1996).
5. John Prados, Keepers of the Keys: A History of the National Security Council from Truman to Bush (New York: William Morrow, 1991).
6. Mike Allen, "Bush Seeks to Restrict Hill Probes of Sept. 11," Washington Post, Jan. 30, 2002, p. A4.
7. Walter Pincus, "Congressional Panels Join to Probe U.S. Intelligence," Washington Post, Feb. 12, 2002, p. A15.
8. Pincus, "Congressional Panels Join.".
9. Walter Pincus, "House, Senate Panels Set Joint Sept. 11 Probe," Washington Post, Feb. 15, 2002, pp.A18-19.
10. James Risen, "Panel to Review Readiness of Agencies Before Attacks," New York Times, March 5, 2002, p. A10.
11. L. Britt Snider, "Sharing Secrets with Lawmakers: Congress as a User of Intelligence." Central Intelligence Agency: Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI 97-10001), Feb. 1997.
12. Dana Priest and Walter Pincus, "Strife, Dissent Beset Hill's Sept. 11 Panel," Washington Post, May 20, 2002, p. A11.
13. Eleanor Hill, "Joint Inquiry Staff Statement, Part I," September 18, 2002, p. 6. (The Joint Inquiry has yet to produce a committee report or publish hearings.).
14. Dana Priest, "A 'Final Exam' Begins for Security Agencies," Washington Post, June 4, 2002, p. A6.
15. Dana Priest and Juliet Eilperin, "'We Should Have' Known, Goss Says of 9/11," Washington Post, June 12, 2002, p. A12.
16. Robert S. Mueller III, "Statement for the Record," (June 18, 2002) FBI 24003 (de-classified September 25, 2002).
17. George Tenet, "Final Draft 9-11 Testimony for the DCI," Central Intelligence Agency, June 18, 2002 (declassified circa October 17, 2002).
18. Juliet Eilperin and Dana Priest, "Sept. 11 Plot Likely Hatched in '98, Tenet Says," Washington Post, June 19, 2002, p. A10.
19. Dana Bash and Kate Snow, "Messages Intercepted by U.S. on September 10 Revealed," CNN.com, June 19, 2002.
20. Pierre Thomas 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, June 7, 2002.
21. Mike Allen and Juliet Eilperin, "Cheney Blames Leaks on Congress," Washington Post, June 21, 2002, p. A12.
22. See John Prados, Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of William E. Colby (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).
23. Walter Pincus, "The Reasons Behind a White House Rebuke," Washington Post, June 24, 2002, p. A4. Pincus quotes the report, which appeared in the Washington Times on September 22, 2001.
24. Dana Priest, "FBI Leak Probe Irks Lawmakers," Washington Post," Aug. 2, 2002, p. A1.
25. CBS News, Face the Nation, October 20, 2002.
26. Carl Hulse, "Prodding the FBI in Public and in Private," New York Times, June 10, 2002, p. A20.
27. Richard Leiby and Dana Priest, "Head of Sept. 11 Probe Allegedly Obstructed Dan forth's Waco Inquiry," Washington Post, June 22, 2002, p. A6.
28. Priest and Pincus, "Strike, Dissent Beset Hill's Sept. 11 Panel.".
29. James Risen, "White House Drags Its Feet On Testifying at 9/11 Panel," New York Times, Sept. 13, 2002, p. A12.
30. "Perspectives: Senator Richard C. Shelby: A Reaction to Sept. 11: 'This is a Massive Intelligence Failure, '" New York Times, Sept. 10, 2002, p.A14.
31. Eleanor Hill, "Joint Inquiry Staff Statement, Part I," September 18, 2002, p.2.
32. Central Intelligence Agency, "Statement by CIA Spokesman Bill Harlow," September 19, 2002.
33. George Tenet, "Written Statement for the Record of the Director of Central Intelligence Before the Joint Inquiry Committee," Central Intelligence Agency, October 17, 2002, pp. 9-10, 24.
34. Hill, September 18, 2002.
35. Author's notes for October 17, 2002.
36. "Handling of the Phoenix Electronic Communication and Investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui Prior to September 11, 2001," Joint Inquiry Staff Statement, September 24, 2002. A court ruling in the federal district court in Alexandria, Virginia, which is trying the Moussaoui case, issued on September 23, clarified the issues that could be discussed by government officials without prejudice to the legal case, resulting in a revised staff statement, released on October 17. The Hill statement of September 24 (amended) supplies greater detail, adds quotes from original documents, and modifies public knowledge.