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To: stockman_scott who wrote (30994)	5/28/2002 6:51:06 PM
From: Ed Huang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Just do a little review on FBI agent Colleen Rowley report. Smeone in the FBI HQ “were actively hindering the investigation” indicates that it's not a simple bureaucracy problem. Can the likelihood be ruled out that those guys knew the situation very well and wanted terror attack happen? Are those guys are politically well protected so they dare to do thing like that? Hmmm… Hope the hearing starting on June 4 can come up with something. abcnews.go.com …. This week, a Minnesota agent wrote a scathing letter to Mueller and members of Congress, complaining that upper-level officials failed to connect the clues. Plus, agent Coleen Rowley charged some in the FBI hindered the work of field agents who understood the importance of what they were reporting. "The agents in Minneapolis who were closest to the action, and in the best position to gauge the situation locally, did fully appreciate the terrorist risk/danger posed by Moussaoui and the possible co-conspirators even prior to Sept. 11," Rowley wrote, according to a recounting given to The Associated Press. Central FBI officials failed to act on the original Minnesota concerns, then rebuked agents who sought to continue their investigation with help from the CIA, Rowley alleged. "When, in a desperate 11th-hour measure to bypass the FBI HQ roadblock, the Minneapolis division undertook to directly notify the CIA's counterterrorist center, FBI HQ personnel chastised the Minneapolis agents for making the direct notification without their approval," she wrote. And worse, sources told ABCNEWS, Rowley alleged that someone in FBI headquarters rewrote parts of the affidavit that Minnesota agents produced to get access to Moussauoi's computer, weakening it before it was passed to a higher level. "One of the worst things is that these guys were actively hindering the investigation," a government source familiar with the letter said. "They rewrote the affidavit for the [Moussaoui] warrant. They also took information out of the affidavit. Minnesota had this information [to merit a warrant], and headquarters edited the application." …