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“Why hasn't our president been expected to account for the massive intelligence blunders that occurred before 9/11?” Philip Morrow, FreeLanceStar letter to the editor.
Perhaps people are unaware of the numerous and expensive inquiries into the intelligence failure of 9/11. Perhaps they’ve forgotten the publicity, the furor, and the sorrow that came with the live hearings of the 9/11 Commission and its released findings.
But if so, the memory seems selective. It is intellectually dishonest to clamor for ‘answers’ from elected politicians, while not demanding credibility from our Media. NEWSWEEK and CBS are only the most recent media disasters – what of the countless others? Did NEWSWEEK fire anyone? No. Did they apologize? No. They didn’t even reprimand the reporter that made the mistake. CBS cleared Dan Rather of any wrong doing and slapped the producers on the wrist.
In contrast, the entire intelligence department was reorganized, the CIA director and the FBI director ‘resigned’ among heavy pressure, and sweeping reforms were put in place.
Perhaps placing the burden of decades of bureaucracy, countless intelligence failures that occurred before his election, and a continued failure to recognize that we are in fact at war with terrorists, on President Bush is mission of partisan sophistry, when we can’t even hold reporters responsible for their own stories.
Perhaps people are unaware of the numerous and expensive inquiries into the intelligence failure of 9/11. Perhaps they’ve forgotten the publicity, the furor, and the sorrow that came with the live hearings of the 9/11 Commission and its released findings.
But if so, the memory seems selective. It is intellectually dishonest to clamor for ‘answers’ from elected politicians, while not demanding credibility from our Media. NEWSWEEK and CBS are only the most recent media disasters – what of the countless others? Did NEWSWEEK fire anyone? No. Did they apologize? No. They didn’t even reprimand the reporter that made the mistake. CBS cleared Dan Rather of any wrong doing and slapped the producers on the wrist.
In contrast, the entire intelligence department was reorganized, the CIA director and the FBI director ‘resigned’ among heavy pressure, and sweeping reforms were put in place.
Perhaps placing the burden of decades of bureaucracy, countless intelligence failures that occurred before his election, and a continued failure to recognize that we are in fact at war with terrorists, on President Bush is mission of partisan sophistry, when we can’t even hold reporters responsible for their own stories.
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