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'Able Danger' Stopped From Informing FBI |
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AP
AP staff
August 17, 2005 |
An Army intelligence officer said Wednesday he does not believe the 9/11 commission pressed hard enough for documentation of claims that military intelligence found a U.S.-based terrorist cell that included Mohamed Atta, who turned out to be the leader of the Sept. 11 attacks, prior to the terrorist strikes. |
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Four in 9/11 Plot Are Called Tied to Qaeda in '00 |
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New York Times
Douglas Jehl
August 9, 2005 |
Washington - More than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, a small,
highly classified military intelligence unit identified Mohammed Atta and three
other future hijackers as likely members of a cell of Al Qaeda operating in
the United States, according to a former defense intelligence official and a
Republican member of Congress. |
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What We Don't Know About 9/11 Hurts Us |
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LA Times
Robert Scheer
February 15, 2005 |
Would George W. Bush have been reelected president if the public understood how much responsibility his administration bears for allowing the 9/11 attacks to succeed?
The answer is unknowable and, at this date, moot. Yet it was appalling to learn last week that the White House suppressed until after the election a damning report that exposes the administration as woefully incompetent if not criminally negligent. |
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Inspector General Rebukes F.B.I. Over Espionage Case and Firing of Whistle-Blower |
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New York Times
Eric Lichtblau
January 15, 2005 |
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 - The F.B.I. has failed to aggressively investigate accusations of espionage against a translator at the bureau and fired the translator's co-worker in large part for bringing the accusations, the Justice Department's inspector general concluded on Friday. |
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'Security' Blocks FBI Critic Case |
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CBSnews.com
Kathy Mountcastle
July 7, 2004 |
U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said he was satisfied with claims by Attorney General John Ashcroft and a senior FBI official that the civil lawsuit by Sibel Edmonds could expose intelligence-gathering methods and disrupt diplomatic relations with foreign governments.
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Translator in eye of storm on retroactive classification |
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Boston Globe
Anne E. Kornblut
July 5, 2004 |
In a rare maneuver, Attorney General John Ashcroft has ordered that information about the Edmonds case be retroactively classified, even basic facts that have been posted on websites and discussed openly in meetings with members of Congress for two years. The Department of Justice also invoked the seldom-used "state secrets" privilege to silence Edmonds in court. She has been blocked from testifying in a lawsuit brought by victims of the Sept. 11 attacks and was allowed to speak to the panel investigating the Sept. 11 attacks only behind closed doors. |
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Al-Qaida Tried to Pentrate FBI's Translation Service |
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BreakForNews.com
Fintan Dunne
June 18, 2004 |
A transcript of the 9/11 Commission hearing on June 16, 2004 reveals that the FBI's intelligence translation service was a target for penetration by a senior Al-Qaida operative. |
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Questioning Nearly Every Aspect of the Responses to Sept. 11 |
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New York Times
Douglas Jehl
June 17, 2004 |
Now, in 17 preliminary staff reports, that panel has called into question nearly every aspect of the administration's response to terror, including the idea that Iraq and Al Qaeda were somehow the same foe.
Far from a bolt from the blue, the commission has demonstrated over the last 19 months that the Sept. 11 attacks were foreseen, at least in general terms, and might well have been prevented, had it not been for misjudgments, mistakes and glitches, some within the White House. |
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This Made Ashcroft Gag: Translator keeps blowing 9-11 whistle on FBI; U.S. Keeps shutting her up |
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Village Voice
James Ridgeway
May 24, 2004 |
Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa summarized the Edmonds case in questioning FBI director Robert Mueller: "I would also like to, on a second point, figure out why the FBI is going back in time and classifying some pretty basic information that's already in the public sector in regard to classification of information that we have received in Congress from a whistle-blower, Sibel Edmonds. |
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Ex-FBI worker challenges 9/11 'lie' |
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Toronto Star
Tim Harper
April 5, 2004 |
Claims U.S. had warnings of airplane attacks
White House adviser's statements `not accurate' |
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