Terror experts almost quit in frustration with Bush

The Bush administration’s failure to prevent the 11 September attacks came under even fiercer scrutiny yesterday, when it emerged that two veteran CIA counter-terrorism experts were so frustrated in summer 2001 that they considered resigning and making public their fears about an imminent terrorist strike against US targets.

The shock revelation comes in new findings released by the federal commission investigating the attacks in 2001. These also show that John McLaughlin, deputy to the CIA director George Tenet, had told the panel he too was worried that not enough was being done.

According to this latest report, Mr McLaughlin had felt “a great tension, especially in June and July 2001″, between the incoming Bush team’s need to get a grip on the terrorism issue, and his own sense of urgency about the danger…{{link http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=504776/ MORE}}

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