No One Ever is to Blame

In the grand Dubya/GOP tradition of never admitting you’ve made a mistake, it seems that the new CIA Director, Porter J. Goss, has asked the CIA inspector general to modify his report on CIA failures relating to 9/11 so as to omit naming names. Well, since no one else in Bush’s administration got the boot for the greatest security failure in the history of the United States, why not?

No doubt this tidbit will be conveniently lost in all the election coverage:

"Explosives used in some of Iraq's major terror bombings were the same type as those missing from a dump monitored by the UN, the Daily News has learned.

Forensic tests by a joint task force at the Quantico, Va., Marine base show the bombers who leveled the United Nations and Jordanian missions in Iraq, and who staged other big attacks, used RDX and HMX military-grade high explosives, said a government source briefed on the findings. Both types of munitions were under seal at the Al Qaqaa site near Baghdad."

The Daily News article kind of omits the fact that the United States failed to guard the Al Qaqaa weapons site right after the invasion, despite repeated warnings from UN inspectors before the invasion. Now, just where does the buck stop in this administration?