Bill Gertz
Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to 9/11
Wed Aug 28 04:33:36 2002
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Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to
September 11

Gertz, Bill


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In the months since 9/11, one thing has become clear about the
terrorists behind the attacks: they almost begged to be caught. Far from
being the diabolically brilliant plotters they were assumed to be at first,
they gave U.S. authorities one golden opportunity after another to
discover and foil their plans. Yet the richest, largest, most
technologically sophisticated intelligence-gathering system in the world
let them slip through its fingers -- not once, not twice, but over and
over again.

How could this happen? In Breakdown, America's premier national
security reporter Bill Gertz reveals how, since the 1970s, liberals have
ravaged the CIA and FBI until both were rendered incapable of
effective clandestine operations. Using his extensive sources within the
government and his unrivaled access to confidential documents, Gertz
also uncovers extensive evidence of how Clinton Administration
mismanagement of our military and intelligence operations made us
sitting ducks for 9/11. And he tells us how our intelligence agencies and
officials had information that could have prevented the attacks.

"What he's uncovered is shocking. He's done a great service for
the people of this country." -- RUSH LIMBAUGH

How Jimmy Carter and his CIA Director, Stansfield Turner,
decimated the cream of the CIA's spy corps

How Bill Clinton and his leftist partisans finished the job in the
1990s, turning the CIA into a "welfare bureaucracy" with few
clandestine agents but plenty of lawyers and desk-bound "case
workers"

Which Clinton-appointed CIA director set up a special "bin
Laden" station - and staffed it with agents who had no foreign
experience and couldn't speak Arabic

How Bill Clinton's efforts to distract from his sex scandal "killed"
the U.S. link to Osama bin Laden's private cell phone

How Janet Reno made it virtually impossible for the CIA and
FBI to gather intelligence on terrorists

How the capture of al Qaeda member Abdul Hakim Murad
revealed -- in 1995 -- practically the whole al Qaeda plot to
train suicide hijackers to fly planes, but was ignored

Who told the FBI its agents could NOT inspect Zacarias
Moussaoui's laptop, which could have revealed key details of
the September 11 plan

How Clinton National Security Advisor Anthony Lake was
suckered by bogus Iranian disinformation into driving one of our
CIA's most promising Arabic-speaking agents out of the agency

How the same agent warned of a massive terror attack weeks
before September 11, but was disregarded because he was no
longer with the CIA

How Clinton's CIA Director John Deutch routinely typed his
notes from secret meetings into an unsecured laptop -- and then
e-mailed them using his America Online account!

How Deutch hamstrung the CIA's Directorate of Operation with
rules that deterred it from recruiting spies who could reveal
terrorist operations

The outrageous restraints put on our intelligence agents who
were hamstrung by fears of racism charges, forbidden to search
the Internet for clues -- and instructed not to gather intelligence
from informants unless they had the morals of Boy Scouts

Details of the "numerous intelligence reports" reaching CIA
headquarters that al Qaeda was planning an attack -- as they
had attacked American targets at least five times in five years

Why the male intelligence analyst who warned in advance of the
USS Cole bombing was ignored - but the female analyst who
said such an attack was "impossible" was believed

The hushed-up story of Bill Clinton's disastrous "Bay of Guam"
-- a pathetically inept effort to remove an Islamic dictator

How the CIA "lost" the one leader who could have stabilized
post-Taliban Afghanistan

How the Left, led by Senators Frank Church and Ted Kennedy,
devastated the FBI and left it incapable of collecting intelligence
on terrorist cells operating in the U.S.

How the FBI, weakened by restrictions on its intelligence
capability, notified the White House in 2000 that that were no al
Qaeda cells operating in the United States

How the National Security Agency (NSA) missed an al Qaeda
cell of terrorists operating in Laurel, Maryland -- right next door
to its headquarters at Fort Meade

Details of a classified U.S. intelligence conference in March
2002 that revealed major weaknesses in intelligence six months
after September 11

The heroic combat vet who predicted the World Trade Center
attacks - and died on September 11 while helping to save 3,500
workers

The top-secret CIA report revealing Osama bin Laden's links to
terrorist bombings in Saudi Arabia

How to protect Americans in the Age of Terror: a specific plan
for consolidating, strengthening and improving U.S. intelligence,
under strict Constitutional guidelines

PLUS: REVEALING DOCUMENTS

The U.S. District Court indictment against Zacarias Moussaoui
-- which is the most complete U.S. government account of the
events leading up to September 11-detailing the conspiracy and
the activities of the al Qaeda supporters.

Classified documents that highlight the systemic, structural, and
cultural problems within U.S. intelligence agencies that
contributed to the intelligence failures surrounding 9/11

A British government dossier laying out a summary of evidence
against bin Laden and his responsibility for the 9/11 attacks

"A deeply disturbing account of how America's intelligence agencies
failed to discern the elaborate plots Osama bin Laden's men were
planning against us. Exciting. Upsetting. Strongly recommended." --
JEANE J. KIRKPATRICK

"Bill Gertz, one of America's most accomplished and credible
investigative reporters, offers a compelling analysis of our nation's
intelligence problems, including their historical roots, and provides a
comprehensive prescription for correcting the deficiencies and
improving national security." - ED MEESE III

"A first rate analysis of the most serious problem to confront the nation
since the Cold War, and it reads like a thriller. You won't be able to
put it down. But when you do, send it to your congressman or
senator." -- RICHARD PERLE, Assistant Secretary of Defense,
1981-1987

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"Bill Gertz, one of America's most accomplished and credible
investigative reporters, offers a compelling analysis of our
nation's intelligence problems, including their historical
roots, and provides a comprehensive prescription for
correcting the deficiencies and improving national security."
-- Edwin Meese III, former Attorney General of the United
States.


Contact Bill Gertz at 202-636-3000


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