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Here is what the FBI HQ knew and when they knew it, and what they did with this information.
Mid-May 2001 - FBI Deputy Chief of the FBI ITOS section, Tom Wilshire, knew that Mihdhar and Hazmi had taken part in the planning of the Cole bombing at Kuala Lumpur with Walid Bin Attash, mastermind of the Cole bombing. He also knows that Hazmi is inside of the US in order to take part in an al Qaeda terrorist attack and that Mihdhar has a multi-entry US visa in order to join Hazmi in the US so that he can take part in this same attack. Yet in spite of being the very highest manager in charge of all FBI field terrorist investigations worldwide, he never gives this information to the FBI criminal investigators on the Cole bombing, an investigation that his ITOS unit actually has control over.
July 5, 2001 - Tom Wilshire knows that the people at Kuala Lumpur are connected to the warnings the CIA and FBI HQ have been getting about a massive al Qaeda attack, and sends this information in email to his CTC managers back at the CIA.
July 10, 2001 - Richard Blee, Chief of the CIA Bin Laden unit and Tom Wilshire's supervisor, Cofer Black, Blee’s supervisor and head of the CIA CTC unit, and George Tenet, Cofer Black's supervisor and Director of the CIA hold a meeting at White House with Rice and Clarke and tell Rice a huge al Qaeda attack is just about to take place inside of the US that will kill thousands of Americans
July 23, 2001 - Tom Wilshire knows that Mihdhar will be found at the location of the next big al Qaeda attack, and sends this information in email to his managers at the CIA, Blee, Black and Tenet.
August 22, 2001 - Tom Wilshire and FBI HQ Agent Dina Corsi are told by FBI Agent Margaret Gillespie, who was working at the CIA Bin Laden unit, that Mihdhar and Hazmi are inside of the US. Wilshire knows immediately that al Qaeda terrorists Mihdhar and Hazmi are inside of the US in order to take part in the huge al Qaeda attack that both the CIA and FBI HQ had been warned about since April 2001. Corsi admits to the DOJ IG criminal investigators after the attacks on 9/11 that on August 22, 2001 she knew that the CIA had a photograph of Khallad taken at Kuala Lumpur, knew this directly connected both Mihdhar and Hazmi to the planning of the Cole bombing and knows that this means that Bongardt should be allowed to start a FBI criminal investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi immediately.
But both Corsi and Wilshire keep this information secret from FBI Agent Steve Bongardt and his team of Cole bombing investigators.
August 23, 2001 - Gillespie sends this information, that Mihdhar and Hazmi are inside of the US, throughout the CIA and to Blee, Black and Tenet.
August 28, 2001 - Corsi’s EC is sent to the FBI New York office and is sent by John Liguori to Bongardt. Bongardt calls Corsi and requests that the investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi be given to him and his team. Corsi and her supervisor Rod Middleton, tell Bongardt that because her EC had information from a NSA cable, it is illegal for him to even have her EC, and that he has to destroy her EC and will not be allowed to take part in any investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi. But Corsi had already been given a written release by the NSA to give this NSA information to the FBI criminal investigators on the Cole bombing, the day before.
Bongardt tells Corsi and Middleton that these two al Qaeda terrorists are inside of the US only in order to take part in yet another horrific al Qaeda attack, and says the because NSA information has no connection to any FISA warrant, he requests that Corsi get an opinion from the FBI NSLU attorneys to see if he can start an investigation for these terrorists and find them before they have time to carry out another attack.
August 29, 2001 - Corsi tells Bongardt that the NSLU attorney had ruled that he cannot take part in any investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi. But page 538, Footnote 81 of the 9/11 Commission report says that the attorney Corsi consulted, Sherry Sabol told the DOJ IG investigators on November 7, 2002, that she had told Corsi since the NSA information had no connection to any FISA warrant, Bongardt could take part in any investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi, and if Corsi was still confused, she (Corsi) could contact the NSA and get a release herself. Corsi never tells Sabol that she had already gotten a NSA release the day before.
Robert Fuller an inexperienced intelligence agent is given the assignment to investigate Mihdhar and Hazmi.
August 30, 2001 - The CIA sends the photograph of Khallad taken at Kuala Lumpur to Rod Middleton. Corsi’s supervisor now has photographic proof that Mihdhar and Hazmi had taken part in the planning of the Cole bombing. In spite of having shut down Bongardt’s investigation with Corsi on August 28-29, 2001, he never calls Bongardt and allows him to start any investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi. Wilshire, and Middleton know about the warnings of a huge al Qaeda attack inside of the US, and know that by shutting down Bongardt’s investigation thousands of Americans will perish in these attacks. CIA managers Blee, Black and Tenet also know this, and know by allowing Wilshire, Middleton and Corsi to shut down Bongardt’s investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi thousands will be killed in an attack that Bongardt could have prevented. Yet these high level CIA managers and FBI managers never raise any alarm and alert any FBI field office that could have prevented these al Qaeda attacks they know are about to take place.
To summarize:
Almost beyond belief, Tom Wilshire, number two at the FBI ITOS, the unit in charge of all FBI terrorist investigations in the world, not only was working with FBI HQ Agent Dina Corsi and Rod Middleton her supervisor to shut down Bongardt’s investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi, but was in contact with Frasca and Maltbie on August 24, 2001, and it is clear had been in email contact with these RFU managers well before this date to get updates on the details of the Samit investigation. Wilshire had it all, all of the information that should have been used to raise an alarm to very highest level and make sure these investigations were allowed to proceed at the very highest urgency, but just the opposite was done.
Not only was Wilshire working with Corsi and Middleton to shut down Bongardt’s investigation but he was aware from Maltbie’s email, that Maltbie and Frasca were sabotaging Samit’s investigation. What is beyond belief is at this time Wilshire already knew that Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US in order to take part in a massive al Qaeda attack that would kill thousands of Americas.
No one has ever explained why when Wilshire the number two at the FBI HQ ITOS unit knew that Mihdhar and Hazmi had taken part in the planning of the Cole bombing by May 15, 2001, four months ahead of the 9/11 attacks, he never notified the FBI Cole bombing investigators of this information even though his unit was actually in charge of their investigation.
Maybe someone at this forum can explain this very strange and criminal behavior on Tom Wilshire. Both Corsi and Rod Middleton were also aware of this information, Corsi by August 22, 201 and Middleton by August 30, 2001 and neither one of these FBI HQ agents and supervisors in charge of Bongardt’s investigation alerted Bongardt of this information and in fact unit they fact kept this information secret so they could shut down his investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi. Maybe someone on this forum can also explain this.
Question: Why did very high level FBI HQ ITOS manager Tom Wilshire, a former CIA Deputy Chief of the CIA Bin Laden unit, never raise any alarm when he knew Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US on August 22, 2001 and knew they were going to take part in a massive al Qaeda attack that would kill thousands of Americans?
Question: Explain why Tom Wilshire, Deputy Chief of the ITOS unit at FBI HQ, the one FBI HQ unit in control of all FBI terrorists investigations worldwide, never told the FBI Cole bombing investigators that Mihdhar and Hazmi had taken part in the planning of the USS Cole bombing when he was aware of this information by mid-May 2001, 4 months prior to the attacks on 9/11?
Both Corsi and Rod Middleton were also aware of this information that Mihdhar and Hazmi had taken part in the planning of the Cole bombing, Corsi by August 22, 2001 (she admitted this to DOJ IG investigators) and Middleton by August 30, 2001, (the CIA actually sent Middleton the photo of Khallad taken at Kuala Lumpur on August 30, 2001, connecting both Mihdhar and Hazmi to the planning of the Cole bombing) and neither one of these FBI HQ agents and FBI supervisors in charge of Bongardt’s investigation alerted Bongardt of this information and in fact they kept this information secret so they could continue the shutdown of his investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi. They knew shutting down Bongardt’s investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi would allow the al Qaeda terrorists to carry out the massive al Qaeda attack that the CIA and FBI HQ had been warned about since April 2001.
Question: Why did FBI HQ Agent Dina Corsi and her supervisor Rod Middleton shut down FBI Agent Steve Bongardt’s investigation of al Qaeda terrorists Mihdhar and Hazmi when they knew that Mihdhar and Hazmi had taken part in the planning of the Cole bombing, and even knew it was a crime to withhold this material information from Bongardt and his team of Cole bombing investigators?
Question: Why did FBI HQ Agent Dina Corsi and her supervisor Rod Middleton shut down FBI Agent Steve Bongardt’s investigation of al Qaeda terrorists Mihdhar and Hazmi when they knew that this would allow the al Qaeda terrorists to carry out the attacks that they had been warned about since April 2001, the attacks of 9/11?
Question: Since Wilshire was in a high level management position at the FBI ITOS unit that was over Corsi and Middleton, and it is clear from the information in the DOJ IG report he was directing Corsi’s efforts to shut down Bongardt’s investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi, why did he do this when he knew that the result would be to allow the al Qaeda terrorists to carry out attacks inside of the US that would kill thousands of Americans?
On August 27, 2001 Corsi requested a release from the NSA to pass the NSA information in her EC to the FBI Agents in New York on the Cole bombing investigation including FBI Agent Steve Bongardt's and this release was granted in just few hours. But on August 28, 2001 just the very next day, when Corsi’s EC with this NSA information, was sent accidentally to Steve Bongardt by John Liguori and Bongardt called her to request the investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi be given to him and his team since it appeared due to the information in her EC that both Mihdhar and Hazmi were now connected to people who had taken part in the Cole bombing. But Corsi told Bongardt that because of the NSA information in her EC, he was not even allowed to have here EC, and he had to destroy her EC and could not start any investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi.
Question: Why did FBI HQ Agent Dina Corsi force Bongardt to destroy here EC on August 28, 2001 using the reason she had not gotten permission from the NSA to send this information to him, when she already had gotten the NSA release to give him the NSA information in her EC the day before, on August 27, 2001?
Question: And why did Corsi request this release from the NSA if she had no real intention of ever giving her EC with this NSA information to Bongardt and his team of Cole bombing investigators?
On August 23, 2001, Margaret Gillespie had the CIA bin Laden unit issue an alert to the rest of the CIA indicating that Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US. So Richard Blee, Chief of the CIA Bin Laden unit, his supervisor Cofer Black and his supervisor George Tenet would have been aware that Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US and they all knew that these al Qaeda terrorists were in the US in order to take part in a massive al Qaeda attack that would kill thousands of Americans (from Tom Wilshire’s emails to them in July 2001). These CIA managers had refused to give Tom Wilshire permission in July 2001 to pass the information on Mihdhar and Hazmi and the Kuala Lumpur meeting to the FBI, in response to his email requests on July 13, 2001, and July 23, 2001.
Question: When these high level CIA managers had gone to the White House on July 10, 2001 to tell Clarke and Rice a huge al Qaeda attack was about to take place inside of the US that would kill thousands of Americans why did they refuse to give Tom Wilshire permission to pass the Kuala Lumpur information to the FBI on July 13, and July 23, 2001, the very information that could have prevented the attacks on 9/11?
Question: Why did these high level CIA managers never raise any alarm about this horrific information after they were given the information that Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US on August 23, 2001 and even knew these al Qaeda terrorists were inside of the US in order to part in a huge al Qaeda attack that would kill thousands?
On August 24, 2001 Tenet flies out to Crawford Texas, to have a 6 hour ling meeting with President Bush. At the time of this meeting, Tenet knew about Moussaoui, knew that Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US in order to take part in a massive al Qaeda attack that would kill thousands of Americans.
Question: So exactly what did Tenet tell the President on August 24, 2001, at a meeting he desperately tried to keep secret from the American people and the 9/11 Commission when he told the commission that he had not talked to the President at all in all of August 2001?
Question: Did Tenet lie to the 9/11 Commission so he would not have to answer any questions on what he told the President at this meeting?
Question: On September 4, 2001 Tenet attended the first Principals meeting at the White House on the al Qaeda terrorists. Yet in spite of knowing about this huge al Qaeda attacks that will take place inside of the US, he never brings this information up at this meeting. Why?
On November 2000, Soufan made a request to FBI Director Louis Freeh, and asked Freeh to make an official request to the CIA and George Tenet for any information that the CIA had on any meeting in Kuala Lumpur and Walid bin Attash, Khallad, the mastermind of the Cole, bombing. Freeh said the CIA had none of this information. But Freeh himself had gotten much of this very information from the CIA in January 2000.
Question: Why did Louis Freeh, Director of the FBI criminally obstruct his own investigation of the Cole bombing when this was at the time the FBI’s most important investigation?
Question: Why was all this information listed above left out of and never explained by the 9/11 Commission when it was in the DOJ IG report combined with the account of FBI Agent Ali Soufan?
Question: Was the 9/11 Commission covering up the crimes at the CIA and FBI HQ that had allowed the attacks on 9/11 to take place?
Maybe you can explain why all of this information was just left out of and never explained by the 9/11 Commission.
Back up your claim about my not interpreting this information correctly by answering these very simple common sense questions!
Either you can answer these questions or you can’t. Either you know about the events on 9/11 or you don’t, and your prior response was just unsupported nonsense.
Remember that almost 3000 people paid with their lives because these questions had not been answered prior to the attacks on 9/11.