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To: Les H who wrote (2232)	6/20/2003 1:35:17 AM
From: Don Green	Respond to of 49536

FBI Continues to Muzzle 9/11 Whistleblower Friday June 20, 2003; Newsmax In a disturbing indication that the FBI continues to put political correctness ahead of America's national security interests, the bureau has banned the publication of a book detailing the agency's failures before 9/11 and launched a fourth investigation into its author, former FBI agent Robert Wright. Like celebrated FBI agent Coleen Rowley, Agent Wright tried to sound the alarm about the bureau's penchant for overlooking danger signs before 9/11, with his revelation that agency officials failed to discipline a Muslim agent who refused to wear a wire to record a Muslim terror suspect. After Agent Wright went public, FBI officials sprang into action - but not because one of its own seemed to have conflicting loyalties. Instead, beginning in March 2001, whistleblower Wright found himself on the hotseat, targeted by mulitple probes that left little doubt higher-ups wanted him silenced. As detailed Thursday by columnist Robert Novak, three bureau probes found no wrongdoing whatsoever by the 9/11 whistleblower. "Nevertheless, the FBI hierarchy has been implacable in its attitude toward Wright," he reports. "It has banned publication of his manuscript which Wright calls 'a blueprint of how the events of September the eleventh were inevitable.'" Shades of Gary Aldrich, the former FBI agent who sought clearance from FBI censors for his own bombshell manuscript for "Unlimited Access," the book that blew the lid off the national security breakdown at the Clinton White House. Instead of greenlighting Aldrich's book, FBI lawyers turned his manuscript over to White House lawyers so they could prepare a damage control campaign. With FBI history repeating itself, Wright called a June 2 press conference where he described the investigations as "a pathetic attempt . . . before the Sept. 11th attacks, to further silence me from going public about the FBI's negligence and incompetence." The FBI's response? To launch yet a fourth investigation into what the bureau calls insubordination by Agent Wright, zeroing in on his claims that the FBI "allowed known terrorists, their co-conspirators and financiers, to operate and roam freely throughout the United States." For good measure, the bureau tacked on charges that he embarrassed the FBI and acted unprofessionally. The move has captured the attention of bureau critic, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who has demanded that the FBI explain why its pulled out all the stops to stop Agent Wright. "The problem with the FBI is that it can't tolerate dissent," Grassley told Novak. "To effectively combat terrorism, he said, "it's going to take a new FBI from the top to the bottom." After the bureau launched its jihad against him in 2001, Agent Wright retained the services of Chicago lawyer David Schippers, the renowned legal ace who helped turn Bill Clinton into the first elected president in U.S. history to be impeached during a stint as the lead counsel to the House Judiciary Committee in 1998. Schippers in turn enlisted the help of the Washington-based legal watchdog group Judicial Watch, which has been crying foul about Wright's mistreatment ever since. Concludes Novak, "Clearly, [FBI Director Robert] Mueller has not changed the culture of the FBI that considers whistle-blowing the supreme sin for its agents."