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  Has someone been sitting on the FBI?



  Code named Operation Northwoods
  http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html<http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html> 

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  OPERATION NORTHWOODS 
  http://www.pir.org/cgi-bin/nbonlin1.cgi?OPERATION_NORTHWOODS_<http://www.pir.org/cgi-bin/nbonlin1.cgi?OPERATION_NORTHWOODS_> 

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  GREG PALAST
  Has someone been sitting on the FBI?
  Fri Jan 25 16:25:49 2002
  24.16.150.192


  Has someone been sitting on the FBI?
  6/11/01

  GREG PALAST: 
  The CIA and Saudi Arabia, the Bushes and the
  Bin Ladens. Did their connections cause
  America to turn a blind eye to terrorism? 

  UNNAMED MAN: 
  There is a hidden agenda at the very highest
  levels of our government. 

  JOE TRENTO, (AUTHOR, "SECRET HISTORY
  OF THE CIA"): 
  The sad thing is that thousands of Americans
  had to die needlessly. 

  PETER ELSNER: 
  How can it be that the former President of the
  US and the current President of the US have
  business dealings with characters that need to
  be investigated? 

  PALAST: 
  In the eight weeks since the attacks, over
  1,000 suspects and potential witnesses have
  been detained. Yet, just days after the
  hijackers took off from Boston aiming for the
  Twin Towers, a special charter flight out of the
  same airport whisked 11 members of Osama Bin
  Laden's family off to Saudi Arabia. That did not
  concern the White House. 

  Their official line is that the Bin Ladens are
  above suspicion - apart from Osama, the black
  sheep, who they say hijacked the family name.
  That's fortunate for the Bush family and the
  Saudi royal household, whose links with the Bin
  Ladens could otherwise prove embarrassing.
  But Newsnight has obtained evidence that the
  FBI was on the trail of other members of the]
  Bin Laden family for links to terrorist
  organisations before and after September
  11th. 

  This document is marked "Secret". Case ID -
  199-Eye WF 213 589. 199 is FBI code for case
  type. 9 would be murder. 65 would be
  espionage. 199 means national security. WF
  indicates Washington field office special agents
  were investigating ABL - because of it's
  relationship with the World Assembly of Muslim
  Youth, WAMY - a suspected terrorist
  organisation. ABL is Abdullah Bin Laden,
  president and treasurer of WAMY. 

  This is the sleepy Washington suburb of Falls
  Church, Virginia where almost every home
  displays the Stars and Stripes. On this
  unremarkable street, at 3411 Silver Maple
  Place, we located the former home of Abdullah
  and another brother, Omar, also an FBI
  suspect. It's conveniently close to WAMY. The
  World Assembly of Muslim Youth is in this
  building, in a little room in the basement at
  5613 Leesburg Pike. And here, just a couple
  blocks down the road at 5913 Leesburg, is
  where four of the hijackers that attacked New
  York and Washington are listed as having lived.

  The US Treasury has not frozen WAMY's
  assets, and when we talked to them, they
  insisted they are a charity. Yet, just weeks
  ago, Pakistan expelled WAMY operatives. And
  India claimed that WAMY was funding an
  organisation linked to bombings in Kashmir. And
  the Philippines military has accused WAMY of
  funding Muslim insurgency. The FBI did look
  into WAMY, but, for some reason, agents were
  pulled off the trail. 

  TRENTO:
  The FBI wanted to investigate these guys.
  This is not something that they didn't want to
  do - they wanted to, they weren't permitted
  to. 

  PALAST: 
  The secret file fell into the hands of national
  security expert, Joe Trento. The Washington
  spook-tracker has been looking into the FBI's
  allegations about WAMY. 

  TRENTO:
  They've had connections to Osama Bin Laden's
  people. They've had connections to Muslim
  cultural and financial aid groups that have
  terrorist connections. They fit the pattern of
  groups that the Saudi royal family and Saudi
  community of princes - the 20,000 princes -
  have funded who've engaged in terrorist
  activity. 

  Now, do I know that WAMY has done anything
  that's illegal? No, I don't know that. Do I know
  that as far back as 1996 the FBI was very
  concerned about this organisation? I do. 

  PALAST:
  Newsnight has uncovered a long history of
  shadowy connections between the State
  Department, the CIA and the Saudis. The
  former head of the American visa bureau in
  Jeddah is Michael Springman.
  MICHAEL SPRINGMAN:
  In Saudi Arabia I was repeatedly ordered by
  high level State Dept officials to issue visas to
  unqualified applicants. These were, essentially,
  people who had no ties either to Saudi Arabia
  or to their own country. I complained bitterly
  at the time there. I returned to the US, I
  complained to the State Dept here, to the
  General Accounting Office, to the Bureau of
  Diplomatic Security and to the Inspector
  General's office. I was met with silence. 

  PALAST:
  By now, Bush Sr, once CIA director, was in the
  White House. Springman was shocked to find
  this wasn't visa fraud. Rather, State and CIA
  were playing "the Great Game". 

  SPRINGMAN:
  What I was protesting was, in reality, an effort
  to bring recruits, rounded up by Osama Bin
  Laden, to the US for terrorist training by the
  CIA. They would then be returned to
  Afghanistan to fight against the then-Soviets. 

  The attack on the World Trade Center in 1993
  did not shake the State Department's faith in
  the Saudis, nor did the attack on American
  barracks at Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia
  three years later, in which 19 Americans died.
  FBI agents began to feel their investigation
  was being obstructed. Would you be surprised
  to find out that FBI agents are a bit frustrated
  that they can't be looking into some Saudi
  connections? 

  MICHAEL WILDES, ( LAWYER)
  I would never be surprised with that. They're
  cut off at the hip sometimes by supervisors or
  given shots that are being called from
  Washington at the highest levels. 

  PALAST:
  I showed lawyer Michael Wildes our FBI
  documents. One of the Khobar Towers
  bombers was represented by Wildes, who
  thought he had useful intelligence for the US.
  He also represents a Saudi diplomat who
  defected to the USA with 14,000 documents
  which Wildes claims implicates Saudi citizens in
  financing terrorism and more. Wildes met with
  FBI men who told him they were not permitted
  to read all the documents. Nevertheless, he
  tried to give them to the agents. 

  WILDES:
  "Take these with you. We're not going to
  charge for the copies. Keep them. Do
  something with them. Get some bad guys with
  them." They refused. 

  PALAST:
  In the hall of mirrors that is the US intelligence
  community, Wildes, a former US federal
  attorney, said the FBI field agents wanted the
  documents, but they were told to "see no
  evil." 

  WILDES:
  You see a difference between the
  rank-and-file counter-intelligence agents, who
  are regarded by some as the motor pool of the
  FBI, who drive following diplomats, and the
  people who are getting the shots called at the
  highest level of our government, who have a
  different agenda - it's unconscionable. 

  PALAST:
  State wanted to keep the pro-American Saudi
  royal family in control of the world's biggest oil
  spigot, even at the price of turning a blind eye
  to any terrorist connection so long as America
  was safe. In recent years, CIA operatives had
  other reasons for not exposing Saudi-backed
  suspects. 

  TRENTO: 
  If you recruited somebody who is a member of
  a terrorist organisation, who happens to make
  his way here to the US, and even though
  you're not in touch with that person anymore
  but you have used him in the past, it would be
  unseemly if he were arrested by the FBI and
  word got back that he'd once been on the
  payroll of the CIA. What we're talking about is
  blow-back. What we're talking about is
  embarrassing, career-destroying blow-back for
  intelligence officials. 

  PALAST:
  Does the Bush family also have to worry about
  political blow-back? The younger Bush made
  his first million 20 years ago with an oil
  company partly funded by Salem Bin Laden's
  chief US representative. Young George also
  received fees as director of a subsidiary of
  Carlyle Corporation, a little known private
  company which has, in just a few years of its
  founding, become one of Americas biggest
  defence contractors. His father, Bush Senior,
  is also a paid advisor. And what became
  embarrassing was the revelation that the Bin
  Ladens held a stake in Carlyle, sold just after
  September 11. 

  ELSNER:
  You have a key relationship between the
  Saudis and the former President of the US who
  happens to be the father of the current
  President of the US. And you have all sorts of
  questions about where does policy begin and
  where does good business and good profits for
  the company, Carlyle, end? 

  PALAST:
  I received a phone call from a high-placed
  member of a US intelligence agency. He tells
  me that while there's always been constraints
  on investigating Saudis, under George Bush it's
  gotten much worse. After the elections, the
  agencies were told to "back off" investigating
  the Bin Ladens and Saudi royals, and that
  angered agents. I'm told that since September
  11th the policy has been reversed. FBI
  headquarters told us they could not comment
  on our findings. A spokesman said: "There are
  lots of things that only the intelligence
  community knows and that no-one else ought
  to know. 

  ============================================

  11/14/2001
  Press Office
  202-646-5172



  ACTIVE FBI SPECIAL AGENT FILES COMPLAINT CONCERNING OBSTRUCTED FBI ANTI-TERRORIST INVESTIGATIONS 

  COMPLAINS THAT SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORISTS ATTACKS MIGHT HAVE BEEN PREVENTED

  FBI COULD HAVE STOPPED BIN LADEN YEARS AGO



  (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that an active FBI Special Agent filed a complaint last week concerning FBI/Justice Department interference in and mishandling of terrorist investigations. The FBI Special Agent, who wishes to remain anonymous at this time, alleges that he was retaliated against when he continued to push for and pursue certain terrorist investigations over the objections of his FBI and Justice Department supervisors. The FBI Special Agent, who is represented by Judicial Watch and David Schippers, Esq., filed the complaint last week with the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General (IG) and Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR).

  Based on the evidence, the FBI Special Agent believes that if certain investigations had been allowed to run their courses, Osama bin Laden's network might have been prevented from committing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks which resulted in the deaths of nearly 5,000 innocents.

  Judicial Watch is requesting a full scale, independent investigation into its client's concerns and seeks to hold accountable those responsible for preventing the full investigation of terrorist activity here in the United States and abroad. 


  ###info at judicialwatch.org<mailto:###info at judicialwatch.org>  . 1-888-JW-ETHIC 



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