<P> After 9 / 11, the CIA came under criticism for not having done enough to prevent the attacks . Tenet rejected the criticism, citing the agency's planning efforts especially over the preceding two years . He also considered that the CIA's efforts had put the agency in a position to respond rapidly and effectively to the attacks, both in the "Afghan sanctuary" and in "ninety - two countries around the world". The new strategy was called the "Worldwide Attack Matrix". </P> <P> Anwar al - Awlaki, a Yemeni - American U.S. citizen and al - Qaeda member, was killed on September 30, 2011, by an air attack carried out by the Joint Special Operations Command . After several days of surveillance of Awlaki by the Central Intelligence Agency, armed drones took off from a new, secret American base in the Arabian Peninsula, crossed into northern Yemen, and fired a number of Hellfire missiles at al - Awlaki's vehicle . Samir Khan, a Pakistani - American al - Qaeda member and editor of the jihadist Inspire magazine, also reportedly died in the attack . The combined CIA / JSOC drone strike was the first in Yemen since 2002--there have been others by the military's Special Operations forces--and was part of an effort by the spy agency to duplicate in Yemen the covert war which has been running in Afghanistan and Pakistan . </P> <P> The agency attracted widespread criticism after it used a doctor in Pakistan to set up a vaccination program in Abbottabad in 2011 to obtain DNA samples from the occupants of a compound where it was suspected bin Laden was living . </P> <P> A major criticism is failure to forestall the September 11 attacks . The 9 / 11 Commission Report identifies failures in the IC as a whole . One problem, for example, was the FBI failing to "connect the dots" by sharing information among its decentralized field offices . </P>

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