To: Hawkmoon who wrote (127779 ) 3/30/2004 1:24:24 PM From: KLP Read Replies (1) | Respond to I think the 9-11 Congressional hearings have "cemented" the fact that the FBI and the CIA could not share information as one of the most basic causes of 9-11. Thanks for the link you provided. Some of it is below: cnsnews.com \Nation\archive\2..."the FBI was totally in the dark about what was being planned for Sept. 11 because they were not permitted to penetrate those organizations that publicly announced that they intended to do severe damage to the U.S."Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) and Rep. Otis Pike (D-N.Y.) during the mid-1970s for convincing the rest of Congress that restrictions were needed on the intelligence gathering agencies. "Prior to Sept. 11, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) made it impossible for the FBI, which had possession of one of the hijackers' computer to get a warrant from the court to get into that computer and know what the terrorists were planning."FISA was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter in 1978 and followed congressional investigations into the covert domestic surveillance activities of the FBI during the Vietnam era.Former President Bill Clinton signed an executive order in Feb. 1995, expanding the law. It barred the physical searches of members of groups designated threats to national security if there was no probable cause to suspect a crime had been committed.
