Woolsey: CIA Not the Main Problem

Former CIA Director James Woolsey said Thursday that it would be wrong for an upcoming report by the Senate Intelligence Committee to blame the CIA for the 9/11 attacks in the wake of Director George Tenet's resignation.

"I think if the Senate committee comes out with a report that says Tenet or the CIA was principally responsible for 9/11, it will just be wrong," Tenet told CNN's "Paula Zahn Now."

Woolsey contended that while the CIA can be faulted for not telling the FBI that two of the 9/11 hijackers had entered the country after attending an al-Qaida planning session in Malaysia, it was in no position to connect the dots on a whole series of other clues.

"The planning [for 9/11] was taking place in Germany and in the United States, which is two places the CIA doesn't spy," Woolsey told Zahn. "And the CIA wasn't responsible for the flimsy cockpit doors on the airliners or the fact that the Air Force didn't have fighter interceptors in Washington or New York and on and on."

"The country was asleep," he concluded.

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