posted on Aug, 8 2005 @ 03:26 PM
America's intelligence agencies have performed poorly in the following ordeals:
1. Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigations, National Security Association missed Stalin's development of the atom bomb
2. Mao's invasion of Korea
3. Hungarian uprising of 1956 and its crushing by Moscow the same year
4. Krushev's siting of missiles in Cuba in 1962
5. Soviet invasions of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Afghanistan in 1979
6. The bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania
7. The sinking of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen
8. "successes" of the Central Intelligence Agency: foiling of bomb attacks in Jordan, Bosnia and Kenya, have all been achieved with the help of
foreign intelligence services
9. Botched the investigation of the theft of nuclear threats by China, Wen Ho Lee, only person charged, was later exonerated
10. Robert Hanssen had been selling secrets to the Russians for 18 years
11. Federal Bureau of Investigations failed to block the World Trade Center bombing of 1993 or Oklahoma City bombing two years later
12. On August 17, 2001, Habib Zacarias Moussaoui was arrested in Minnesota on immigration charges after the managers of a flight-training school in
Eagan, near Minneapolis, became suspicious of him - he was interested only in how to turn the aircraft, not how to take off and land; French
Intelligence (him being French-Algerian) officer told the Federal Bureau of Investigations that Moussaoui was suspected of links to Osama bin Muhammad
bin Awad bin Laden, had visited Afghanistan, knew people in Chechyna - and yet there was no change in security levels at United States airports in the
two weeks between the French information coming here to American governmental officials and the seizure of the September 11th planes
13. Israeli intelligence officials say they warned the Central Intelligence Agency that large-scale attacks on highly visible targets on the American
mainland were imminent, two senior agents of the Mossad, the Israeli Intelligence service, were sent to Washington in August 2001 to alert the Central
Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigations, linking the plot to Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden; some of the terrorists lived
in America for months, even years; the evidence of the imminent attack was ignored by the Central Intelligence Agency
I feel so secure as an American, don't you?