"FBI headquarters has an incredible documented trail of actions in both assisting the 9/11 terrorists and promoting agents who appear to have assisted them. Here are a dozen examples:
Marion “Spike” Bowman, FBI’s National Security Law Unit deputy general counsel who was implicated by Democrat and Republican Senators for refusing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant in the Zacarias Moussaoui investigation, received a Presidential Rank Award and a 20%+ pay increase;
Michael Maltbie, FBI supervisory special agent who was implicated in removing FISA application information that may have helped obtain the warrant against Moussaoui, was promoted to field supervisor in Cleveland;
Maltbie’s boss, David Frasca, the FBI's Radical Fundamentalists unit chief, was implicated by FBI field offices in thwarting the Moussaoui investigation and ignoring the memo from Ken Williams in Phoenix about flight training for Hani Hanjour and other potential hijackers;
FBI agent, Gamal Abdel-Hafiz who refused to secretly record another suspected Arab terrorist, was promoted to an anti-terrorism investigation post at the American Embassy in Saudi Arabia;
A still to be identified representative from FBI headquarters refused to allow special agent Robert Wright and John Vincent to investigate Saudi money laundering from Chicago to Saudi Arabian businessman, Yassin al-Kadi. Wright was specifically told: 'I forbid any of you. You will not open criminal investigations against any of these intelligence subjects,'
The U.S. Justice Department shut down the Chicago money laundering investigation down despite supportive efforts from local federal prosecutor, Mark Flessner;
FBI counter intelligence informant, Abdussattar Shaikh, hosted, Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid AlMihdhar, two of the alleged hijackers in San Diego during October 2000 to December 2000 and provided enough information for San Diego field agents to request an investigation of them;
FBI headquarters refused the plea from a San Diego FBI agent to investigate the two alleged San Diego hijackers. (...)"
http://www.sitbot.net/htm/20342.html"In a little-noticed exchange at the commission’s hearings this spring between commission member John Lehman and former F.B.I. official Thomas Pickard, the bureau’s acting director in the summer before the attacks, Mr. Lehman asked Mr. Pickard (according to the official transcript): "As you know, very shortly after the September 11th attack, some of the commercial databases like Axion, ICSO (ph), ChoicePoint, so forth were queried and nearly all of the 19 hijackers were very prominently covered, with addresses, credit cards, locations et cetera. Why did not the F.B.I. make use of those commercial databases before 9/11?"...
"We were prohibited from utilizing a lot of those commercial databases by statutes and things like that," Mr. Pickard replied."
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