August 27, 2005
CIA Report
:A long-awaited C.I.A. inspector general’s report on the agency’s performance before the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks includes detailed criticism of more than a dozen former and current agency officials. Its most damaging attacks are leveled at George J. Tenet, the former director. Mr. Tenet is censured in the report for failing to develop and carry out a strategic plan to take on Al Qaeda in the years before 2001, even after he wrote in a 1998 memo to intelligence agencies that “we are at war” with the group.