Posted on 05/29/2002 6:42:02 PM PDT by mdittmar
FBI Special Agent Robert G. Wright Jr. will hold a news conference Thursday in Washington to reveal FBI negligence and obstruction of counterterrorism investigations targeting Hamas and al-Qaeda.
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, said its co-counsel David Schippers would join Wright at the press conference.
"Special Agent Wright, of the FBI's Chicago Division, is the only agent in the history of the FBI to have used the civil forfeiture laws to seize over $1.4 million dollars in Hamas terrorist money in connection with a criminal investigation of terrorist money laundering operations here in the United States," Judicial Watch said.
Minneapolis FBI agent Coleen Rowley has corroborated Wright's experiences dealing with FBI headquarters and senior management, "who consistently delayed, down-played and soft-peddled the investigative efforts of counterterrorism agents in the field," the organization said.
Stay tuned.
Your establishment icons, like your efforts on this forum, have been exposed.
Back under the rock, Pubbie.
Schippers is a Democrat, which is the same thing.
He's been a hell of a lot more visible since Bush took office than he was after impeachment, hasn't he?
Arkancide?
How about a SPAM sandwich, Jethro? Or a Reform Party foam finger?
I missed your shortwave broadcast. Hope it went well.
Why no blazing spotlight focused on Berger, Freeh, Reno, Clinton?
I've seen plenty of "reorganizations" in the business world and for some reason what you're touting as positive smells of smokescreen and CYA. The incompetent usually get elevated, and the company fails anyway.
Then why not a single terrorist attack since? I mean just regular suicide bombings in malls of the kind Israel is a victim of every week?
Not only that, but if he has a conscience, he has pretty much cleared it and the problems rest on the shoulders of those way up above, including people in charge, going back to Clinton.
Would it have made a difference if Bush had cleaned house and a new leadership (and perhaps culture) had been installed at the FBI? Probably not - you don't turn such an agency around overnight, if he had cleaned house, we'd be seeing the results this year. There would still be a lot of the same rules/behaviors left over from clinton/reno still swirling around. I have to go with the Bushbots on this, Bush couldn't have done anything to have stopped 9/11
You bring up the whistleblower aspect, before the attacks, if this guy had raised hell, he would have been labeled a troublemaker and probably pushed off to some backwoods office and/or forced to leave. Now he can speak his mind without fear of being screwed over by those above him.
Because like good little soldiers, they kept their mouths' shut until the upper level brass in D.C. started to suggest that the FBI's inability to read the tea leaves was the fault of the agents in the field. If the incompetents in D.C had taken the "buck stops here" approach, then Wright and Rawley may have very well kept their mouths shut.
But you could, if you wanted, trap them into proving that they are not doing their jobs, tampering with evidence, lying, leaking information, etc. Those are grounds for firing them ... or perhaps even indicting them. I'd start by just getting a few trustworthy agents together to exhume and autopsy Brown's and Foster's bodies or investigate the Riady non-refund ... and watch the democRAT house of cards begin to fall apart. Hasn't happened and that's why I don't buy the GOP excuses anymore. They are part of the problem TOO.
Having been a member of the NYPD when Serpico blew the whistle on curruption (nobody listened to him either until he was 'accidently shot'), I'd bet Frank would have loved to have been able to turn to a David Shippers for help.
After all, it was Shippers who had the courage to drive the impeachment of a sitting president (as the Republican Senators hid under their desks).
Then the argument could be made that he is a coward and an opportuist.
So, help me out here. They should do..what? Nothing? Jump off a bridge?
You play J Edgar Hoover for minute.
If the FBI, NSA, CIA et al are so incompetant & so in the dark on this threat, how were they able to get the mug shots of the 19 hijackers so fast and piece the plot together?
I was in Colombia on 9/11 and was amazed to see them "solve" the crime so fast on CNN.
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