new CIA director covering Bush's ass until the election

Fascinating, outrageous, complety unsurprising and discussed in some detail in Seymour Hersh's new book Chain of Command, the LA Times has this report (registration required) on the CIA withholding the release of their 9/11 report until after the November 2nd elections. According to several members of Congress (both Democrat and Republican), the CIA is purposefully holding this back to protect the President because, in part, the findings hold "very senior-level officials responsible". Among the excerpts:

"It is infuriating that a report which shows that high-level people were not doing their jobs in a satisfactory manner before 9/11 is being suppressed," an intelligence official who has read the report told me, adding that "the report is potentially very embarrassing for the administration, because it makes it look like they weren't interested in terrorism before 9/11, or in holding people in the government responsible afterward."