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Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Ryan Lizza noted a while back that being counter-terrorism director under Bush has been a bit like being the drummer for Spinal Tap: he loses one after another. In reading Clarke's Against All Enemies, I noticed that what's been true at the NSC has been equally true at the FBI: Dale Watson came in late in the Clinton Administration to replace John O'Neill, probably the most effective counter-terror officer in recent years. O'Neill went to New York, but continued working on numerous national and international briefs while Watson was the Bureau's counter-terror man in Washington. O'Neill left the FBI in the summer of 2001 and was killed on 9/11. Meanwhile:
In 2002, Dale Watson, the FBI's leading couterterrorism official, retired. Months later, Watson's replacement asked to be reassigned and a third person became the Executive Assistant Director for counterterrorism. Within two months, the next incumbent retired and the post was vacant again. |
