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Internal Inquiry Criticizes Performance of High-Level CIA Officials Before Sept. 11 Attacks
Former CIA Director George Tenet and other senior agency officials failed to allocate enough resources in the fight against terrorism prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the CIA inspector general’s office states in a report detailed today in the New York Times (see GSN, Oct. 18, 2004). Former Deputy Director of Operations James Pavitt is also sharply criticized in the classified report, according to current and former intelligence officials. The report says that Pavitt and others failed to meet an acceptable level of performance and calls for Pavitt’s record to be reviewed by an internal board for possible disciplinary action, the officials said. They did not say, though, if the report had reached the same conclusion on Tenet’s performance. The report is nearly finished, and its conclusions could be changed based on responses from those criticized within, the officials said, adding that comments had been solicited from both Tenet and Pavitt. A final version is expected to be completed within six weeks, the Times reported. A spokesman for Tenet said only that “to criticize Mr. Tenet for devoting insufficient resources to counterterrorism would be absurd.” Pavitt said he believes “the findings are flawed.” While his office lacked resources before the Sept. 11 attacks, Pavitt said he “consistently fought for additional resources, commencing that effort in 1997 and stopping only in August 2004 when I retired” (Douglas Jehl, New York Times, Jan. 7).
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