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Pructus Posted 19 years ago
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One problem was that communications between FBI and CIA headquarters is ad hoc — usually by telephone, sometimes by a classified telex. An FBI agent assigned to the CIA wrote a telex to the FBI about al-Hazmi and al-Midhar but for reasons that are still unclear it was never sent. There was no mechanism to register the lapse, or that the FBI in fact did not have al-Midhar and al-Hazmi under coverage. The ball was dropped.
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The underlined part is difficult to understand.
In "or that the", what does this "that" mean?
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Blaming George Tenet or any other CIA manager for 9/11 lapses is to misunderstand the problem. Neither Tenet nor any other CIA director has ever had the mandate or the authority to force the NSA to share its raw databases with CIA analysts. Nor has any director had the mandate or authority to integrate FBI and CIA communications. This is the President and Congress' prerogative.
9/11 lapses mean "the things that led to 9/11"?
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http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1655995,00.html
One problem was that communications between FBI and CIA headquarters is ad hoc — usually by telephone, sometimes by a classified telex. An FBI agent assigned to the CIA wrote a telex to the FBI about al-Hazmi and al-Midhar but for reasons that are still unclear it was never sent. There was no mechanism to register the lapse, or that the FBI in fact did not have al-Midhar and al-Hazmi under coverage. The ball was dropped.
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The underlined part is difficult to understand.
In "or that the", what does this "that" mean?
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Blaming George Tenet or any other CIA manager for 9/11 lapses is to misunderstand the problem. Neither Tenet nor any other CIA director has ever had the mandate or the authority to force the NSA to share its raw databases with CIA analysts. Nor has any director had the mandate or authority to integrate FBI and CIA communications. This is the President and Congress' prerogative.
9/11 lapses mean "the things that led to 9/11"?
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1-- There was no mechanism to register the lapse, or [ to register the fact ] that the FBI in fact did not have al-Midhar and al-Hazmi under coverage. 2-- 9/11 lapses = errors of omission that permitted the 9/11 tragedy to occur
- 1-- There was no mechanism to register the lapse, or [ to register the fact ] that the FBI in fact did not have al-Midhar and al-Hazmi under coverage.
- 2-- 9/11 lapses = errors of omission that permitted the 9/11 tragedy to occur
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1-- There was no mechanism to register the lapse, or [to register the fact] that the FBI in fact did not have al-Midhar and al-Hazmi under coverage.
2-- 9/11 lapses = errors of omission that permitted the 9/11 tragedy to occur
2-- 9/11 lapses = errors of omission that permitted the 9/11 tragedy to occur
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