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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (24843)	6/15/2003 7:59:18 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Hawk, The Blix thing has deteriorated to mere hearsay. Boring. ****** Here's an item that I'm finding to be much more fascinating, if true: W/R/T 9/11 and what the FBI knew.... <COPY> Eager to examine the computer, Minneapolis F.B.I. agents repeatedly requested a special warrant to examine Moussaoui's computer, and bureau attorneys in Washington repeatedly denied their requests, claiming there was insufficient evidence. The special court that reviews warrants covered by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has approved more than 12,000 Justice Department applications for covert search warrants and wiretaps and rejected only one since the act was passed in 1978. After the 9/11 attacks, F.B.I. agent Coleen Rowley, general counsel in the Minneapolis field office, wrote a scorching 13-page open letter to F.B.I. Director Robert S. Mueller III and the Senate Intelligence Committee. She asserted that the French government had shared ample intelligence on Moussaoui, including information on his links to Osama bin Laden, information that supported requests for a special surveillance warrant to search Moussaoui's laptop computer in the weeks before the terrorist attacks. (The French, who had put Moussaoui on a watch list in 1999 because they suspected him of terrorist activities, insisted that they had shared their thick dossier with American intelligence agencies.) Rowley said some field agents were so frustrated that they joked about spies and moles for bin Laden working at Washington headquarters. Rowley complained that agents' reports from Arizona and Minneapolis landed on the desk of David Frasca, head of the Radical Fundamentalists Unit, who had actually telephoned Rowley as she and other agents watched the 9/11 attacks on television. He instructed her not to proceed with the Moussaoui investigation, with the cryptic explanation that Minneapolis might screw up something else going on elsewhere in the country. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? <END COPY> Source: hermes-press.com ****** Hawk, does it make you wonder? David Frasca subsequent to 9/11 got a promotion and a raise. In a sane world, I would think he'd have been fired for incompetence or worse. Any opinion? This is a tantalizing suggestion of why the U.S. government seems so adamant about not allowing Zacharias Moussaoui the opportunity to engage in discovery in his defense against terrorism charges. State secrets are at risk. The one in 12,000 FISA warrant figure is stunning if true.... Ciao!