U.S. Lawmakers See More Intelligence Failures

By Lori Santos

Sun Jun 9, 2002

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. Senate intelligence committee said on Sunday "significant numbers of people" from inside the government were coming forward with new information on U.S. intelligence failures related to the Sept. 11 attacks on America.

Sen. Bob Graham, a Florida Democrat, said some of those offering information to the joint investigation of the Senate and House of Representatives intelligence committees were emboldened by the recent disclosures of FBI ( news - web sites) whistle-blower Coleen Rowley. He also said it was becoming clear "there are some people who deserve to get sanctions as a result of what they were doing before September 11."

"We are already getting significant numbers of people coming to us, either in person or with materials that hadn't previously been known," Graham told the CBS "Face the Nation" program. "I think the testimony of Ms. Rowley has given encouragement to folks" inside the federal bureaucracy.

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