Key FBI whistleblower says if WikiLeaks existed sooner, 9/11, Iraq war ‘could have been prevented'

[kpete]

Exclusive: Key FBI whistleblower says if WikiLeaks existed sooner, 9/11, Iraq war ‘could have been prevented’

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“If there had been a mechanism like Wikileaks, 9/11 could have been prevented,” Coleen Rowley, a former special agent/legal counsel at the FBI's Minneapolis division, told Raw Story in an exclusive interview.

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"One of the reasons why the website existed with the 2.5 million documents shared at fairly low levels to even include privates was that was the conclusion of the 9/11 Commission – that 9/11 occurred due to a failure to share this information. So they were trying to share things as much as possible," she said.

Rowley continued, "The 9/11 Commission went so far as to say that even little tidbits, even some little things had been made public, like the arrest of Moussaoui had been made public in August, that would have probably served to avert 9/11."

"Even the agents in the Minnesota office were unaware of what was going on. They weren’t told," she noted.

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more:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/exclusive-wikileaks-benefits-public-intelligence-officers/

[DCKit]

1. We used to call it "news". nt

[DCKit]

2. BAD DU DUPE

[bullwinkle428]

3. Perhaps the most spot-on indictment of our "media" I've ever read!

K&R.

[bananas]

4. k&r for Coleen Rowley

and all the other whistle-blowers and whistle-blowers-in-waiting.
Edit to add: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleen_Rowley

[BeFree]

5. That's whay...

...Bushco hates Wikileaks. The free flow of information could have put bushco where it belongs:
At the bottom. Instead, it rose to damn near ultimate power. And it still infects DC.

The bushco dis-ease is why this country is so screwed.

[leveymg]

6. Of course FBI field agents weren't told. The CIA and top FBI went to great lengths to keep them

out of the way of the ongoing domestic CIA and DIA operations, such as Operation Cyclone, that had been bringing hundreds of Islamic militants into the U.S. for two decades.

They didn't want Bureau gumshoes getting in the way of the largest U.S. intelligence operation of the Post Cold War era - the secret war to tear away the energy-rich Caspian and Transcaucus regions from Russia and its regional allies.

Of course the 9/11 hijackers were known terrorists - they were "our" terrorists, almost all of whom had blown up a bunch of Russians in Chechnya and Bosnia.

[bananas]

7. They treat us like mushrooms.

Keep us in the dark and feed us bullshit.
If it wasn't for beer, nobody would know anything.

[Poboy]

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