Senator: Hearings to 'get to the bottom' of lapses

Now i must say i'm not the biggest CNN fan but its sounds like all hell is breaking loss over the 9/11 bombing

What we've got to do, I believe, is get to the bottom of the successes and failures because we owe that to the American people," said Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Shelby made his comments after intelligence officials told CNN the CIA had warned the FBI in January 2000 that one of the September 11 hijackers had participated in an al Qaeda meeting in Malaysia and merited closer attention.

However, it wasn't until August 2001 -- three weeks before the terror attacks -- that the CIA put that man, Khalid Almihdhar, and Nawaf Alhazmi, another man at the Malaysia meeting, on a watch list that could have prevented them from entering the United States. Alhazmi was another September 11 hijacker
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"I can tell you I believe again this points toward more failures at the CIA, at the FBI and all over the intelligence agencies," Shelby said......


......The latest revelations come on the heels of harsh criticism of the FBI for what some lawmakers say was a series of overlooked clues and leads that preceded the worst terrorist attack on American soil......