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Trulock Sees Cover-up of Intelligence Failures Wes Vernon, NewsMax.comWASHINGTON – Battle-scarred whistle-blower Notra Trulock says leftists in Congress and in the media are covering up the intelligence failures before Sept. 11, possibly in the interest of protecting operatives who fell down on the job and "smoothing over” the intelligence meltdown that occurred during the Clinton administration. Trulock took strong exception to a story in Thursday’s Washington Post saying that "after six months of culling through intelligence files and dozens of closed-door hearings,” a joint House-Senate panel had "uncovered no single piece of information” or any evidence "pointing to a single piece on information … that could have prevented disaster” or an intelligence breakdown. "I think it’s a whitewash. I think it’s a cover-up. And I think it’s a complete charade," said Trulock, whose exposé of the China scandal made him a prime target of the Clinton spin/smear machine and resulted in an FBI raid on his home without a warrant. Trulock thought the Post’s Watergate-era investigative zeal, evident during the Republican Nixon administration, was missing when it came to holding Bill Clinton accountable. "The metric that the Post is using is that there was no single piece of intelligence that could be construed as a smoking gun. But that is not the way you do intelligence,” according to Trulock, former director of intelligence for the Department of Energy. "There are bits and pieces that have to be pulled together into a mosaic,” he stressed to NewsMax.com. Trulock, soon to succeed the legendary Reed Irvine as president of Accuracy in Media, was appalled that any newspaper that takes its investigative responsibilities seriously would put an exculpatory headline like that on its front page after a month of revelations "that clearly would have told people" there had been intelligence failures. 'P.R. Entity' "For the Post to become nothing more than a P.R. entity for the intelligence community is just a terrible thing to happen at this time in our history,” he said. In answer to a question from NewsMax, Trulock said a headline in a major mainstream newspaper whitewashing intelligence goofs may hasten the downfall of whistle-blowers such as FBI agents Coleen Rowley and Robert Wright, who have protested the bureau’s failures before the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on America. The veteran intelligence official had already said it is "a matter of time before Rowley will fall afoul of all of those things that happen to whistle-blowers.” Noting that Rowley has only a couple of years before she’s eligible for retirement, he said, "Hopefully, if she can hang on for two years, then she’ll be safe. "This is the typical pattern that one sees over and over and over again. There is a flurry, a series of leaks. There is congressional testimony, lots of activity. "The media then moves on, and sooner or later you have media outlets, particularly the Post, smoothing over the waters, 'Well, this is not really that big a deal, there’s really nothing there, and let’s move forward.'” NewsMax.com has documented that script playing itself out for decades, going back to Otto Otepka in the 1960s, who was hounded and smeared because he did his job as a State Department security officer and would not give the green light to prospective high-level appointees whose records raised questions as to their eligibility for security clearances.
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