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Senator Says Sept. 11 Report Too Soft on CIA, FBI
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leader of the Senate intelligence committee criticized on Tuesday a congressional inquiry into Sept. 11-related intelligence failures as too soft on U.S. agencies, especially the CIA (news - web sites).

The report stops short of assigning enough blame to the FBI (news - web sites) and CIA, Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and one of CIA Director George Tenet's harshest critics, told ABC television on Tuesday morning.

A joint inquiry by the Senate and House intelligence committees has drafted a final, mostly classified, report that is expected to face an approval vote on Tuesday.

"Some of the people on the committee don't want to assign the blame or the accountability," Shelby said. "I am not one of those people."

The CIA and FBI have been criticized for missing potential clues that, if pursued, critics say, may have led to unraveling the plot that sent four hijacked planes crashing into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon (news - web sites) outside Washington and a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, 2001.

More than 3,000 people died in the attacks, which prompted a review of U.S. security vulnerabilities to better protect against another strike on U.S. soil, and led to the creation of a new Department of Homeland Security.

"Perhaps some of it could have been prevented," Shelby said of the Sept. 11 attacks. "There were a lot of missed signals, a lot of non-sharing of information."

Shelby continued to heap criticism on Tenet. "There have been more failures on his watch as far as massive intelligence failures than any CIA director in history. Yet he's still there," Shelby said. "It's inexplicable to me."

President Bush (news - web sites), who often receives his daily intelligence briefing from Tenet personally, has expressed confidence in the CIA director since the Sept. 11 attacks.

Shelby hinted that he might support a minority report from the intelligence committee harsher than the one to be released on Tuesday. "I will come forth with minority views, with my own views, and I believe there will be others who will join me," he said.




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