Sites Holmquist trys, and often fails, to go no more than a couple of days without visiting (some of which Holmquist regularly swipes links from without attribution)
The director of central intelligence, George Tenet, saying yesterday:
The intelligence that we provided our senior policy makers about the threat Al Qaeda posed, its leadership and its operational span across over 60 countries and the use of Afghanistan as a sanctuary was clear and direct. Warning was well understood, even if the timing and method of attacks were not...
We all understood bin Laden's attempt to strike the homeland, but we never translated this knowledge into an effective defense of the country...
It will take us another five years to have the kind of clandestine service our country needs.
