WASHINGTON — Porter Goss, a former CIA director, rejected advice that an outside panel evaluate the performance of his predecessor, George Tenet, and other officials over failures to prevent the September 11, 2001, attacks.

The Central Intelligence Agency’s inspector general recommended in June 2005 that Mr. Goss form a panel to consider disciplinary action against some officials still with the agency, according to a declassified summary of the report released yesterday. The CIA’s current director, General Michael Hayden, said he re-read the findings and agreed with Mr. Goss’s decision.

“Director Goss noted at the time that the officers cited include some of our finest,” Mr. Hayden said in a statement issued along with the congressionally mandated inspector general’s report. “With inadequate resources, they and those they led worked flat out against a tough, secretive foe.”

Inspector General John Helgerson’s team concluded that Mr. Tenet and other top officials failed to use their authority effectively, didn’t coordinate internally or with other agencies and missed opportunities to evaluate information on the September 11 hijackers who attacked New York and the Pentagon near Washington.

Mr. Tenet resigned in June 2004 after a seven-year tenure that ended with questions related to the intelligence President Bush used to justify the invasion of Iraq.

The team’s findings, released under a deadline Congress imposed in legislation passed last month, expand on a December 2002 report by a joint congressional panel. In one instance, the agency tracked yet failed to coordinate information on two suspected Al Qaeda terrorists who later became hijackers in the September 11 attacks that killed almost 3,000 people. Surveillance of those individuals might have yielded information on flight training, financing and links to others involved in the attacks, according to the inspector’s team.

“That so many individuals failed to act in this case reflects a systemic breakdown, a breakdown caused by excessive workload, ambiguities about responsibilities and mismanagement of the program,” according to a 19-page summary. “Basically, there was no coherent, functioning watch-listing program.”

Tenet failed to develop an effective plan to evaluate and counter the threat, didn’t allocate enough money and personnel to the effort, and neglected differences with the National Security Agency, even as he recognized the severity of the threat, Mr. Helgerson and his team wrote.

Still, the reviewers said they found “neither a ‘single point of failure’ nor a ‘silver bullet’ that would have enabled the intelligence community to predict or prevent” the attacks.

Congress ordered the team to determine whether any CIA personnel should be commended or disciplined. The report was redacted to omit certain names and details as part of the declassification process, Mr. Hayden said in his statement.

Mr. Tenet, decorated by Bush in December 2004 with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian award, now teaches at Georgetown University in Washington.