:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 7.22.2004 ::
:: "9/11 report points to US failures" ::
From The Guardian UK
Simon Jeffery and agencies
The success the September 11 plotters scored by inflicting almost 3,000 deaths on the US represented a failure of "policy, management, capability and imagination" in government and intelligence agencies, a US report said today.
Thomas Kean, the chairman of a commission investigating the attacks, said the US government had been "simply not active enough" at combating the terrorist threat before September 11 2001.
But Mr Kean said it was not his place to direct blame at a sole individual or establishment. Instead, he identified the failure of agencies to share information or leads, and made specific mention of the failure to act on the arrest of Zacarias Moussaoui, an alleged member of the plot, at a US flight school.
Read more here.
ALSO, here's the full text of the report (in pdf).
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