CBS News - 9/11 aftermath - 2001-09-13 - 12:35 a.m. (E)
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[0:00] game. That ill things won't happen to
[0:02] Americans.
[0:03] These are very dedicated, very dangerous
[0:05] adversaries.
[0:07] And we work very hard against them and
[0:10] they obviously work very hard to protect
[0:12] themselves against us.
[0:14] The US spends $25 billion a year on
[0:17] intelligence and much of it goes to the
[0:19] NSA.
[0:20] When the dust settles, there will almost
[0:22] certainly be an investigation to
[0:23] determine why the NSA and the other
[0:25] intelligence agencies failed to pick up
[0:28] any signs of a terrorist attack of this
[0:31] magnitude.
[0:32] David Martin, CBS News, the Pentagon.
[0:35] I got a little deeper in this earlier
[0:37] tonight. I spoke with the former Defense
[0:39] Secretary of the United States and now
[0:41] for the purposes of this story, a CBS
[0:43] News consultant, Bill Cohen.
[0:47] Mr. Secretary, this raises an
[0:48] interesting question. We're now being
[0:50] told we're told today that our
[0:51] intelligence agencies are picked are
[0:54] picked up after the fact information
[0:56] that they've been some Osama bin Laden's
[0:58] tied to these attacks. Question, if they
[1:01] could do that after the fact, why didn't
[1:03] they do it before the fact and give us
[1:04] some warning?
[1:06] I don't think I have enough information
[1:07] to make that kind of a judgment call
[1:08] right now, but I would point out as
[1:11] during the previous segment,
[1:13] Osama bin Laden and others now have the
[1:15] advantage of acquiring technology which
[1:17] is far more sophisticated than anything
[1:18] they've had in the past. It's encrypted
[1:21] in many instances and that encryption
[1:22] either is marketed by US firms or their
[1:24] competitors in Europe. And so they can
[1:27] play the United State