In a devastating indictment of the pre-9/11 CIA, the agency's Inspector General's report on the accountability of the agency for that disaster has singled out Director George Tenet as the man who bears "ultimate responsibility" for failing to create a strategic plan to stop al-Qaeda prior to 9/11:The report says that while Tenet wrote he wanted "no resources or people spared" in going after al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, neither he, nor his deputy, "followed up these warnings and admonitions by creating a documented, comprehensive plan to guide the counterterrorism effort." "I know now why Tenet worked so hard to kill this report," said former White House counterterrorism official Richard Clarke, now an ABC News consultant.The IG took Tenet to task for not devoting enough resources to the task of going after al-Qaeda and trying to discover their plans. There were also bureaucratic turf wars both within the agency and between the CIA and the...(Read Full Post)