Thanks ElMondo. Was PENTTBOM released as a stand alone report or did it just make up part of the Commission Report?
Edit: Found a summary
here.
It is absolutely impossible to believe that the FBI PENTBOM investigators did not uncover the following information;
That FBI HQ IOS Agent Dina Corsi had deliberately and criminal shut down FBI Agent Steve Bongardt's criminal investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi, by telling Bongardt that he had to shut his investigation down because the a NSA cable in her EC was prohibited from being giving to FBI criminal investigators when the NSA had already approved the release of this information by Corsi to these exact same investigators.
It is impossible to believe that they did not discover that Corsi had again lied to Bongardt when she said that the attorney she had consulted at the FBI HQ NSLU told her that Bongardt could not take part in any investigation from Mihdhar and Hazmi, when the 9/11 Commission report based on DOJ IG transcripts says that the attorney, Sherry Sable, that Corsi had consulted with told her that since the information had no connection to any FISA warrant Bongardt could take part in any investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi.
It is further impossible to believe that these PENTBOM investigators did not discover that Corsi had been aware since August 22, 2001, 6 days before she tells Bongardt to shut down his investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi, that the CIA had the photo of Walid Bin Attash taken at Kuala Lumpur, and knew it connected both Mihdhar and Hazmi to the planning of the Cole bombing and even knew that this meant that she, Corsi, had no legal right to block Bongardt’s criminal investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi. Corsi had even stated in email back to Bongardt on August 29, 2001 that if at such time that information is developed of a substantial Federal crime, (by Mihdhar and Hazmi), this information will be passed over the wall. This email proves that Corsi already knew that these two al Qaeda terrorists had committed the Federal crime of planning the bombing of the USS Cole, and knew she had no legal right to block Bongardt’s criminal investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi.
It is further impossible to believe that that PENTBOM investigators did not discover that the photo of Walid Bin Attash had been sent to the Rod Middleton on August 30, 2001. Middleton was Corsi supervisor, and was on the phone with Corsi shutting down Bongardt’s criminal investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi. He would also have been aware that because of this photo, he and Corsi had no legal right to block Bongardt’s criminal investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi.
It is further impossible to believe that the PENTBOM investigators did not discover that Corsi had been operating under the direct supervision of former CIA Deputy Chief of the CIA Bin Laden unit, Tom Wilshire, and that he had instructed Corsi to write up the EC to start an “intelligence investigation” for Mihdhar and Hazmi when both Corsi and Wilshire were clearly ware that Mihdhar and Hazmi had taken part in a crime, the planning of the Cole bombing. Wilshire had also reviewed Corsi's EC just before it was sent over to the FBI New York office, and knew it stated a precedence of “ROUTIUNE” meaning that the investigation could take 30 days with no actual actions required to be taken. This EC was written when Wilshire and Corsi knew a huge al Qaeda terrorist attack was just about to take place inside of the US that would cause mass US casualties, and even knew that both Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US in order to take part in this attack.
It is further impossible to believe that that PENTBOM investigators did not discover that Tom Wilshire had secretly asked his CTC CIA managers for permission twice in July 2001 to send the Kuala Lumpur information to the FBI, that Walid bin Attash had been at the Kuala Lumpur al Qaeda planning meeting with Mihdhar and Hazmi actually planning the Cole, bombing. Wilshire even knew that these al Qaeda terrorists were connected in the July time frame to the massive numbers of warnings of an al Qaeda terrorists attack that would take place inside of the US and had sent a email back to his CTC managers indicating this. At the time of these requests Wilshire even knew that Hazmi was already inside of the US and that Mihdhar had a US visa so he could later join Hazmi in this al Qaeda terrorist attack. Wilshire’s requests were turned down twice by his CIA CTC managers Blee, Black and by the person who would have given the order to prohibit the transfer of this information to the FBI, George Tenet himself. This information alone would show that Wilshire, while ostensibly was working as a high level FBI manager, was actually still secretly working for the CIA.
Since I have found all of this information from the official US government reports from the many investigations of the 9/11 attacks, it is impossible to believe that that PENTBOM investigators did not discover this very same information in just a few days of investigations. All they would have had to do is talk to FBI Agent Steve Bongardt, and then to his boss, FBI Agent Ali Soufan, the lead investigator on the USS Cole bombing, and then go start right up the line to Dina Corsi, Rod Middleton, Tom Wilshire, Richard Blee, Cofer Black and then to George Tenet himself.
They would even have found that their own Director of the FBI Louis Freeh had sabotaged his own FBI criminal investigation of the USS Cole bombing by stating to FBI Agent Ali Soufan, that the CIA had no information on Walid Bin Attash or any meeting in Kuala Lumpur when the CIA had actually given Freeh most of this very information in January 2000.
). The answer is actually yes to both: It was indeed its own standalone report, plus IIRC, it formed the basis of much of the hijackers relations plus activities in the 9/11 Commision Report.
