paloalto:
Please state your source for your data. I know it, it's your interpretation after the fact of information collected during the investigation.
Correct me if I'm wrong but, doesn't this mean the investigation was also privy to this information? Wouldn't that mean your stating information that was not hidden but, you take to mean a different thing?
Surely you don't think no one else picked up on the facts you single out?
The source of my information is the following document and interviews:
The DOJ IG report on the intelligence at the FBI prior to 9/11, the Joint Inquiry Report on the attacks on 9/11, the book "Looming Towers", by Lawrence Wright, the Defense Exhibits entered into the Moussaoui trial, in particular DE 939, DE 650, DE 448, DE 682, the book State of Denial by Bob Woodward, the 9/11 Commission report, although this report was so heavily obfuscated it was almost impossible to use, the public hearings on Intelligence by the 9/11 Commission on April 13-14, 2004, the article in Harpers January 2007 by Ken Silverstein, "Meet the CIA Bagdad Chief”, Richard Blee, and numerous direct person to person interviews of FBI Agents involved in the investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi and the investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui. If you did not have all of these documents and knew every bit of information in all of these documents, you would never had had the information needed to put the entire account of 9/11 back together again.
Several other people did pick up some of the same aspects that I had found.
Lawrence Wright wrote about FBI Agent Ali Soufan and his assistant FBI Agent Steve Bongardt. This book won a Pulitzer prize. Wright is the only one that reported the request by Soufan to FBI Director Louis Freeh, in November 2000, requesting Freeh to contact the CIA and find out if the CIA had any information on Walid bin Attash, or any al Qaeda planning meeting in January, 2000 in southeast Asia. Freeh told Soufan that the CIA had none of this information. But page 181 of the 9/11 Commission report states that Freeh had been given the information by the CIA in January 2000, just 9-10 months earlier, that a important al Qaeda planning meeting was taking place in Kuala Lumpur in January 2000, and that Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi were going to this meeting. The NSA had also given this information to Freeh in December 1999. Freeh had criminally sabotaged his own investigation of the Cole bombing but this information was inexplicably left out of Wrights book.
Kevin Fenton also wrote a book, "Disconnecting the Dots", that details much of the same information that I had have posted in this forum. Fenton claimed that Tenet and Black had not taken part in the criminal conspiracy at the CIA to withhold the Kuala Lumpur information from the FBI criminal investigators. But I was able to prove that it was the Yemen CIA station, the Pakistan CIA station, the CIA bin Laden unit that had criminally withheld this information from the FBI criminal investigators on the Cole bombing, Ali Soufan and Steve Bongardt. Only Tenet and Black had the management breath that could have ordered these stations to withhold this information from the FBI Cole bombing investigators. In addition when the Kuala Lumpur photo of Walid bin Attash was positively identified by the Joint FBI/CIA source, this was done in secret, and this information was never given to the FBI Cole bombing investigators even though this proved that Mihdhar and Hazmi, who the CIA and FBI HQ knew they had been at the Kuala Lumpur meeting at the same time as Walid Bin Attash, were involved in the planning the Cole bombing. In addition in all of the CIA cables that had any mention of the Kuala Lumpur al Qaeda planning meeting, the identification of Walid bin Attash, and the fact that the CIA was sure after the Walid bin Attash identification that Mihdhar and Hazmi had taken part in the planning of the Cole bombing, were scrubbed clean of this information before these cables were sent to the FBI.
The book “The Eleventh Day”, also has much of the same information I have listed here although again the authors of the Eleventh Day said they had no information that Tenet and Black had criminally withheld information from the FBI. Again the information I had already posted proves that Tenet and Black had been directly behind the criminal actions to withhold this information.
The article in Salon, October 14, 2011,
http://www.salon.com/2011/10/14/insiders_voice_doubts_cia_911/, describes Richard Clarke’s information that not only had the CIA withheld information from him on Mihdhar and Hazmi, and the fact they were al Qaeda terrorists inside of the US that the CIA knew were here to take part in a horrific al Qaeda terrorist attack, but the CIA also withheld this information from the FBI. The question raised by Clarke is “did the CIA withhold information from the FBI that could have prevented the attacks on 9/11”. While this article has new information about Clarke it also shows how even the insider Richard Clarke was still unaware of major aspects of what had happened prior to 9/11 that had allowed these attacks to take place. Clarks was unaware that the information on Mihdhar and Hazmi did actually go over to the FBI, but it went to Tom Wilshire, Deputy Chief of the FBI ITOS unit, FBI IOS Agent Dina Corsi and her boss Rod Middleton. Wilshire knew by mid-May 2001, almost 4 months before 9/11, that Mihdhar and Hazmi had taken part in the planning of the Cole bombing, knew that Hazmi was already inside of the US and that Mihdhar had a multi-entry visa to join Hazmi in a al Qaeda terrorist attack that he and the CIA were aware was about to take place. Clarke was unaware that the FBI HQs Agent Dina Corsi was aware of this information on August 22, 2001, there weeks before 9/11 and that Rod Middleton even had the Walid bin Attash photo from Kuala Lumpur on August 30, 2001, two weeks prior to 9/11, direct photographic proof that Mihdhar and Hazmi had taken part in the planning of the Cole bombing. All three of these FBI managers and agents had more than enough information to have prevented the attacks on 9/11 but instead they ordered the investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi by FBI Agent Steve Bongardt to be shut down, knowing full well that this would allow the attacks that they all had been warned about to take place. These FBI managers and the CIA senior managers all knew that their direct actions would result in the murder of thousands of Americans.
