From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 14 1:32:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF8A437B403 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 01:32:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.133.204.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.133.204]) by robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (8.11.5/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f8E8WPf22325; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 01:32:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BA1C0C3.11AF172B@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 01:33:08 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Bill Moran , Milo Hyson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Helping victims of terror References: <20010912215547.98067.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com> <20010912225151.58FCD37B40B@hub.freebsd.org> <01091219512600.11358@proxy.the-i-pa.com> <3BA0C21C.8F32EFA5@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Funny - everybody in the know who's being interviewed on TV is calling > this a failure of *human* intelligence , not of signals intelligence. > But I expect Terry knows best :) CNN interviewed Clinton's national security advisor, and he stated a fear that this was an issue that people would blame on the intelligence community (no, not just signals intelligence). Later, that same evening, on PBS' "Charlie Rose" (station KQED), guest Tom Clancy (the author of the novel "Debt of Honor", in which a commercial air liner is crashed into a join session of congress), suggested that it would be considered an intelligence community failure, and talked about the number of assets (the term used for infitration or double agents) could be at fault for the failure to predict the event. Then Elizabeth Vargas of ABC news intervied the editor of a London Arabic language news paper, who said that his paper had received a threat of an imminent terrorist act two weeks ago, which was discounted as "not a credible threat". So Dag-Erling may be right, but then Clinton's national security advisor, Tom Clancy, a U.S. Senator (also on "Charlie Rose"), and the editor of the paper that received the threat are all wrong... but I expect Dag-Erling knows best. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message