Kendrick Meek: “We will give it out next time. CIA Rejects Discipline for 9/11 Failures Goss Cites Fear Of Hurting Agency (By Dafna…”

“We will give it out next time. CIA Rejects Discipline for 9/11 Failures Goss Cites Fear Of Hurting Agency (By Dafna Linzer and Walter Pincus) The CIA will not seek to hold any current or former agency officials, including ex-director George J. Tenet, responsible for failures leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, CIA Director Porter J. Goss said yesterday, despite a recommendation by the agency's inspector general that he convene an ``accountability board'' to judge their performance. Goss's decision, coming, four years after hijackers commandeered four jets and killed nearly 3,000 people, appeared to end possibility that a high-level official will be held responsible for what several investigations found to be significant failures throughout the government. The inspectors general of the departments of State, Justice and Defense completed their own investigations without publicized disciplinary actions taken against anyone. The CIA's report, which severely criticized actions of senior officers, will remain classified, Goss said in his announcement, which was welcomed by some former officials mentioned in the document but assailed by families of victims of the attacks. Goss said in his statement that the voluminous report by the CIA Inspector General John L. Helgerson, ``unveiled no mysteries,'' and that making it public would only bring harm to the agency when it it trying to rebuild.…”