Obama's Pick of Panetta to Head CIA In Trouble?

Yep. Very soon. :tear: But that is what the left wants - then they can usher in Posse Comitatus and put all the Christians in camps and exterminate us old people.

 

This is a large topic and deserves a separate thread but here's a start.

High-Ranking Officials Admit 911 Could've Been Prevented

"This was not something that had to happen."
"They simply failed."
— Thomas H. Kean, Chair of the independent commission investigating 9/11. Kean is a Republican appointed by Bush

"They don't have any excuse because the information was in their lap, and they didn't do anything to prevent it."
— Senator Richard Shelby, then ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee; member of the joint intelligence committee that investigated 9/11

"I don't believe any longer that it's a matter of connecting the dots. I think they had a veritable blueprint, and we want to know why they didn't act on it."
— Senator Arlen Specter, a Republican member of the joint intelligence committee that investigated 9/11

"There were lots of warnings."
— Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

"Should we have known? Yes, we should have. Could we have known? Yes, I believe we could have because of the hard targets [CIA operatives were tracking]."
— Representative Porter Goss, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; Republican co-chairman of the joint intelligence committee that investigated 9/11

"I cannot say for sure that there wasn't a possibility we could have come across some lead that would have led us to the hijackers."
— FBI Director Robert Mueller

"As of September 10th, each of us knew everything we needed to know to tell us there was a possibility of what happened on September 11th."
— Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff (described by the Associated Press as "the Bush administration's top anti-terrorism prosecutor")

"Had one human being or a common group of human beings sat down with all that information, we could have gotten to the hijackers before they flew those four airplanes either into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon or the ground of Pennsylvania."
— Senator Bob Graham, then Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; Democratic co-chairman of the joint intelligence panel that investigated 9/11

"If you put all those pieces together, I don't say you could have prevented September 11th, but there might have been some warning, had it been handled properly."
— Vice President Dick Cheney

Sources
Cheney: Unsigned. "Cheney Blasts September 11 Critics." CNN, 23 May 2002.
Chertoff: Parry, Wayne. "Official: Many Signs Pointed to 9/11." Associated Press, 1 June 2002.
Goss: Priest, Dana, and Juliet Eilperin. "'We Should Have' Known, Goss Says of 9/11." Washington Post, 12 June 2002: A12.
Graham: Miller, Greg. "Congress Fattens Its Dossier on Sept. 11 Intelligence Errors." Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2002.
Kean: Pinkston, Randall. "9/11 Chair: Attack Was Preventable." CBS News, 17 Dec 2003. Link
Mueller: Lewis, Neil A. "F.B.I. Chief Admits 9/11 Might Have Been Detectable." New York Times, 30 May 2002.
Rumsfeld: "Secretary Rumsfeld Interview with Parade Magazine." Defense Department Website, 12 Oct 2001.
Shelby: Coile, Zachary. "Another Dot That Didn't Get Connected." San Francisco Chronicle, 3 June 2002.
Specter: Sisk, Richard. "FBI, CIA Brass in a Sling." Daily News (New York), 6 June 2002.

 

OK, so where is the suppression ? Who blocked the agencies from sharing information ? Yer copy & paste job completely ignored my question. But I'm used to both, by now.