Another report

CIA director George Tenet, along with a number of former and current intelligence officials, might be in trouble (of course, we've known this for a while now).

A classified report by the CIA's independent watchdog, delivered to the US Congress on Tuesday night, sharply criticised more than a dozen senior officials at the CIA, including Mr Tenet, former clandestine service chief Jim Pavitt and former counterterrorism centre head Cofer Black.

The gist of it is: the CIA failed to place certain hijacker suspects on a government watchlist (which would have given the FBI the go-ahead to pursue), they failed to "develop and carry out a strategic plan" against Al-Qaeda before 2001, and they allowed "thousands" of Arabic intercepts to go untranslated.

I find it interesting how much people tend to blame the current administration for the situation we are in right now without realizing that the bulk of what should have been the "war on terror" should have been carried out by Clinton. Anyone remember that penicillin factory incident in Sudan? Yeah... that sure made a lot of progress.