Just to update yesterday’s item about an internal CIA report on accountability for 9/11 intelligence failures, there appears to be a growing consensus that this is a document that needs to be released.
The Republican and Democratic leaders of the House Intelligence Committee have called on the Central Intelligence Agency to release an internal report examining the agency’s performance in the run-up to the Sept. 11 attacks, Congressional officials said on Wednesday.
The leaders, Representatives Peter Hoekstra, Republican of Michigan, and Jane Harman, Democrat of California, have not made the letter public, and their offices declined to comment on any request.
But one Democratic member of the panel, Representative Rush D. Holt of New Jersey, mentioned the request in a written statement in which he said the C.I.A. “should avoid any appearance of holding back this report for fear that it would reflect badly on the administration.”
This report may see the light of day after all. The LA Times’ Robert Scheer, who broke the story earlier this week, explained that this report could be a doozy. Stay tuned.