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Just to add a connection to the Plame leak investigation:
Snell and two other senior Department of Justice officials (Valerie Caproni, chief of the criminal division for the EDNY (Eastern District of New York) and Patrick Fitzgerald, head of terrorism and organized crime in the SDNY (Southern District of New York) knew of the intelligence coming from Yousef, in the spring of 1996.

I smell a conflict of interest.

Interesting that the third person mentioned there, Valerie Caproni, is now the General Counsel (top lawyer) for the FBI and was in charge of the FBI's investigation of TWA 800!! [She firmly rejects claims that TWA 800 was anything but a fuel tank accident (see below).] It sure is interesting how several key people seem to pop up here and there for different reasons. As General Counsel for the FBI she might have a lot of say in how both the Plame leak investigation and allegations about "the wall" contributing to 9/11 are handled from the FBI's standpoint. Article below says one of her recent priorities has been streamlining FBI requests for warrants related to counter-terrorism investigations. She must know quite a bit from her days in the FBI's NY offices.

http://www.law.uga.edu/news/archives/041007caproni.html

On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 bound for Paris crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island after taking off from JFK at 8:31 p.m. All 230 people aboard died. Because officials at first believed it was a criminal act (some witnesses said they saw a missile hit the plane), the FBI and Caproni were brought in to investigate and ensure the site was treated as a crime scene. That meant that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which normally investigates plane crashes, was pushed to the sidelines. That fueled rumors that the feds were covering something up.

Caught up in these rumors was Caproni, who conspiracy theorists accused of running roughshod over the NTSB during the first few days after the accident. Apparently, she made it quite clear that the FBI was in charge and that the FBI would conduct all interviews with witnesses. In addition, Caproni ruffled some feathers when she charged James Sanders, a freelance journalist, for removing a piece of the wreck in order to test it in a lab for explosive residue. To this day, some people still believe terrorists blew up the plane or that a wayward Navy missile struck it, and that Caproni tried to silence witnesses and journalists.

Caproni laughs at the accusations.

"Conspiracy theorists came out of the woodwork before the last piece of the plane hit the Atlantic," she says. "This was the most thorough investigation that had ever been done. We followed every lead and there was no doubt the plane exploded. It was not brought down by a rocket or a bomb. It exploded because of the center fuel tank. Anyone who believes otherwise is not listening to the facts."

As for the charges that she and the FBI took over investigation, Caproni says she is guilty.

"The FBI stepped to the plate because we believed we were investigating a criminal case," she says. "We indicated that we were in charge."

Caproni, like Snell, was central to the handling of terror investigations in the NY offices of FBI and US Attorney during the Clinton years. Now she's General Counsel for the entire FBI....
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Valerie Caproni, now the FBI general counsel, was a prosecutor in Scarpa's 1998 trial in Brooklyn, N.Y. At the time, Scarpa testified he spied for the FBI on four suspects in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, including convicted mastermind Ramzi Yousef, while they were jailed together in Manhattan.

Scarpa said he passed on to the FBI plans that said associates of the four men would kill a prosecutor in one of Yousef's trials and attack a federal judge he declined to name as well as unspecified "government installations."

Caproni and U.S. District Judge Reena Raggi scoffed at Scarpa's claims, which the judge called insignificant at best and more likely "part of a scam."

Freelance journalist Peter Lance has argued in his recent book, "Cover Up," that Scarpa's information was accurate and included tips that could have led the FBI to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Yousef's uncle, long before the Sept. 11 attacks Mohammed purportedly helped plan.