I posted a report recently that Franks was talked out of killing the main Taliban leader by his JAG. Now the FBI was stopped in searching for one of the 9/11 bombers by their lawyers. Sorry, CB, but maybe we should take Shakespeare's advice. :^)
FBI Agent Urged Search For Hijacker
Request Was Turned Down Before Attacks, Panel Is Told
By Dan Eggen and Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, September 21, 2002; Page A01
Two weeks before the Sept. 11 terrorism attacks, a desperate FBI agent begged his superiors to launch an aggressive hunt for one of the men who would participate in the suicide hijackings, warning that "someday someone will die" because his request was denied, according to testimony before a congressional panel yesterday.
The New York special agent, testifying behind a screen to protect his identity, choked back tears as he described how he asked his Washington superiors on Aug. 29, 2001, to allow his office to join the search for Khalid Almihdhar, who would later help commandeer the aircraft that slammed into the Pentagon.
But lawyers in the FBI's National Security Law Unit refused. They said information obtained through intelligence channels -- that Almihdhar was an al Qaeda associate who had recently reentered the United States -- could not legally be used to launch a criminal investigation.<<<<<<
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