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Final 9/11 Report
Aired July 24, 2003 - 06:07 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: A report detailing why September 11 happened will be released today. The FBI will take much of the heat, but will that mean you will feel safer?
Live to D.C. now and Skip Loescher.
Skip -- what else will the report say?
SKIP LOESCHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Carol, the report's investigation has been going on now for almost two years. That final version, as you mentioned, will be out later today. And once again, the intelligence community will clearly be in the hot seat.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
LOESCHER (voice-over): While the report is apparently critical of the CIA and the military, a co-author says the FBI will bear the brunt of criticism for not being able to head off the 9/11 attacks.
The tragedy of September 11 could have been avoided, says former Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham, if the FBI and CIA shared the information they had.
SEN. BOB GRAHAM (D), FLORIDA: It would have been avoided if our agencies had been less turf-protective, if they had been more communicative, if they had been more creative in their analysis of the intelligence information that they had, and had had a little bit of luck.
LOESCHER: Yet, the report itself, say sources who have seen it, concludes: "This inquiry has uncovered no intelligence information in the possession of the intelligence community prior to the attacks that, if fully considered, would have provided specific advance warning of the details of those attacks."
The report points to these two hijackers that the CIA knew had ties to al Qaeda but didn't tell the FBI until three weeks before the attacks. While in San Diego, the two rented a room in a house of an FBI informant.
REP. RICHARD BURR (R), NORTH CAROLINA: Hindsight is a wonderful tool, but I'm not sure that we understand the connection of the dots well enough to look at it and say had we done this, this couldn't have happened. I don't think we reached that conclusion.
(END VIDEOTAPE) LOESCHER: The report also criticizes the military for its reluctance to bomb al Qaeda training camps prior to September 11, citing questionable intelligence information.
We're live in Washington. I'm Skip Loescher.
Carol -- back to you.
COSTELLO: All right, thank you, Skip.
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Aired July 24, 2003 - 06:07 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: A report detailing why September 11 happened will be released today. The FBI will take much of the heat, but will that mean you will feel safer?
Live to D.C. now and Skip Loescher.
Skip -- what else will the report say?
SKIP LOESCHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Carol, the report's investigation has been going on now for almost two years. That final version, as you mentioned, will be out later today. And once again, the intelligence community will clearly be in the hot seat.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
LOESCHER (voice-over): While the report is apparently critical of the CIA and the military, a co-author says the FBI will bear the brunt of criticism for not being able to head off the 9/11 attacks.
The tragedy of September 11 could have been avoided, says former Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham, if the FBI and CIA shared the information they had.
SEN. BOB GRAHAM (D), FLORIDA: It would have been avoided if our agencies had been less turf-protective, if they had been more communicative, if they had been more creative in their analysis of the intelligence information that they had, and had had a little bit of luck.
LOESCHER: Yet, the report itself, say sources who have seen it, concludes: "This inquiry has uncovered no intelligence information in the possession of the intelligence community prior to the attacks that, if fully considered, would have provided specific advance warning of the details of those attacks."
The report points to these two hijackers that the CIA knew had ties to al Qaeda but didn't tell the FBI until three weeks before the attacks. While in San Diego, the two rented a room in a house of an FBI informant.
REP. RICHARD BURR (R), NORTH CAROLINA: Hindsight is a wonderful tool, but I'm not sure that we understand the connection of the dots well enough to look at it and say had we done this, this couldn't have happened. I don't think we reached that conclusion.
(END VIDEOTAPE) LOESCHER: The report also criticizes the military for its reluctance to bomb al Qaeda training camps prior to September 11, citing questionable intelligence information.
We're live in Washington. I'm Skip Loescher.
Carol -- back to you.
COSTELLO: All right, thank you, Skip.
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