FBI office in Riyadh allegedly 'delinquent' in pursuing Sept. 11 leads

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US Senate panel is probing allegations that the FBI's office in Riyadh neglected thousands of leads related to the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Although the Federal Bureau of Investigation sent reinforcements shortly after the attacks, "it appears that the bureau's team never got on top of the thousands of leads flowing in from the US and Saudi governments," Time magazine reported Sunday.

The Senate Judiciary Committee wrote to FBI Director Robert Mueller on June 6 to request information about allegations that the FBI's Riyadh office was "delinquent in pursuing thousands of leads" related to September 11, the magazine said.

An FBI supervisor sent to Riyadh nearly a year after the attacks found the Riyadh office in disarray with a backlog of documents piled up in mountain of papers, it said.

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more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050619/pl_afp/ussaudifbiattacks/nc:1278;_

[EVDebs]

1. Ptech was a good place to start, but

www.madcowprod.com shows us that the FBI in Boston sandbagged the investigation (if that's what you want to call it). Whistleblower Indira Singh is the only bright spot in that whole episode.

[Dover]

2. That's because it would have been a waste of time.....

they already KNOW who caused 9/11, and they aren't in Riyadh. They are in D.C.

[Wow]

5. And things turned out the way they wanted

[Barrett808]

3. I sometimes say that Saudi Arabia and Pakistan attacked us on 9/11

So Bush invaded Afghanistan and Iraq.

[formercia]

4. It was too hot outside

so we went to the OC for beers.

[Chauga]

6. Guess they had more important things to do???

:shrug:

[hopein08]

7. Why is there an FBI office in Riyadh?

This may be a dumb question but I thought that the FBI isn't allowed to operate outside of the US and the CIA isn't (technically) supposed to operate inside the US. Is it just another "technically"? Does the FBI have to be invited by the foreign nation or something like that? Anyway, I'm really not suprised.

[maddezmom]

8. probably a Legal Attaché Office

http://www.fbi.gov/contact/legat/legat.htm

[Just Me]

9. Was it the FBI or the neoCON-placed management over the FBI?

Same with the CIA,...was the failures concerning the CIA the fault of the agents or the neoCON-placed management in the CIA?

Personally, I don't think the organizations should bear the responsibility of the fucked up leadership imposed upon them.

[johnfunk]

10. Criminal Negligence by Louis Freeh!

There must be something that little brownshirt stooge can be charged with once Democrats take back control of the White House and legislature.

[DURHAM D]

15. Yes, and put him in a cell with his Opus Dei jerk off buddy Robert

Hansen - FBI / Russian spy.

[salin]

11. Yet after the Royal Prince's last visit to Crawford, Bush lifted

the post 9-11 travel restrictions/red tape for Saudi Citizens, put in place to allow more time for security checks, because those citizens found it sooo inconvenient.

[tanyev]

12. Delinquent or just following orders?

[indepat]

13. Was that FBI office wholly incompetent or were they pursuing more urgent

priorities as directed from above, like you know, from Ashcroft? Inquiring minds want to know.

[librechik]

14. I'm shocked...SHOCKED

that there is incompetence in the Saudi bureaucracy.

:sarcasm:

Oh, the home country of most of the highjackers doesn't rush to cooperate in the investigation? Who cares, Bush doesn't!

[Gyre]

16. Me too! I'm REALLY, REALLY shocked!

Hell, the chimp let 140 of those fuckers fly out of Dodge immediately after 9/11 when every single civilian flight in the country was grounded. And that was without any questioning! Ha. But, that's what having a bush in your pocket will getcha.

Gyre