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Tearful FBI Agent Apologizes To Sept. 11 Families and Victims
CNSNEWS.com ^ | 5/30/02 | Jeff Johnson

Posted on 05/30/2002 11:46:13 AM PDT by kattracks

Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - In a memorandum written 91 days before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, an FBI agent warned that Americans would die as a result of the bureau's failure to adequately pursue investigations of terrorists living in the country.

FBI Special Agent Robert Wright, Jr, who wrote the memo, led a ten-year investigation into terrorist money laundering in the United States.

Wright began crying as he concluded his remarks at a Washington press conference Thursday. "To the families and victims of September 11th - on behalf of [FBI Special Agents] John Vincent, Barry Carmody, and myself -- we're sorry," Wright said before walking out of the room.

Vincent and Carmody have also expressed a desire to expose information regarding alleged FBI missteps prior to Sept. 11.

Wright's June 9, 2001 "Mission Statement" memo warned, "Knowing what I know, I can confidently say that until the investigative responsibilities for terrorism are transferred from the FBI, I will not feel safe.

"The FBI has proven for the past decade it cannot identify and prevent acts of terrorism against the United States and its citizens at home and abroad," Wright continued. "Even worse, there is virtually no effort on the part of the FBI's International Terrorism Unit to neutralize known and suspected international terrorists living in the United States."

The summary of Wright's attempts to expose the alleged failures of the FBI's anti-terrorism efforts ended with a solemn conclusion.

"Unfortunately, more terrorist attacks against American interests -- coupled with the loss of American lives -- will have to occur before those in power give this matter the urgent attention it deserves," he wrote.

More to come.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bushknew; deathcultivation; donutwatch; govwatch; terrorwar
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1 posted on 05/30/2002 11:46:13 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
... "To the families and victims of September 11th - on behalf of [FBI Special Agents] John Vincent, Barry Carmody, and myself -- we're sorry," Wright said before walking out of the room ...
Imagine, if you can, a state or nation or polity where every government official were so grimly honest, and so noble. What did we used to call it in more enlightened times? Honor, I think. But I forget.
2 posted on 05/30/2002 11:54:17 AM PDT by Asclepius
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To: kattracks
Sounds like Wright ought to head the FBI. He, at least, understands the depth and breadth of the problem.
3 posted on 05/30/2002 12:02:06 PM PDT by TADSLOS
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To: kattracks
The finger continues to point to Clinton, Reno, and Freeh.
4 posted on 05/30/2002 12:06:21 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: sinkspur
I would love to see the FBI, once an honorable agency, implode because of truth-tellers like this.
5 posted on 05/30/2002 12:10:22 PM PDT by SerpentDove
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To: SerpentDove
Why, when I do a search for FBI, does nothing come up? This is a serious question.
6 posted on 05/30/2002 12:12:07 PM PDT by SerpentDove
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To: sinkspur
The finger continues to point to Clinton, Reno, and Freeh.

Yep. Definitely more of the Clinton legacy.

But now our guys are in power, so that excuse won't hold up for very long.

I hope there are some serious reforms in the works.

7 posted on 05/30/2002 12:12:32 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: SerpentDove
I would love to see the FBI, once an honorable agency, implode because of truth-tellers like this.

Well, some major housecleaning needs to take place.

Bureaucracies stagnate, and the mission of "lifers" becomes to protect turf at all costs.

This kind of stuff happens in companies all the time. Cut several layers of management as a start, and lower the retirement age.

8 posted on 05/30/2002 12:14:39 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: EternalVigilance
Try doing a search for "FBI". Why does nothing come up?
9 posted on 05/30/2002 12:14:55 PM PDT by SerpentDove
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To: TADSLOS
Sounds like Wright ought to head the FBI. He, at least, understands the depth and breadth of the problem.

Sounds like Wright wants to write a book and make some money.

10 posted on 05/30/2002 12:15:41 PM PDT by kaboom
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To: kattracks
I am so totally disgusted with all this weeping by men who are suppose to be men! Aren't there any real men left in America?? I am so sick of these pity seeking crybabies who think a few crocodile tears will excuse them from everything from negligence to murder! What happened to the MEN who won WW11 and fought in Korea and Nam?? No wonder every wacko Arab thinks he can terrorize us.
11 posted on 05/30/2002 12:28:31 PM PDT by GeorgeHL
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To: kaboom
The problem I have with Wright is that he sent his memo marked "routine", meaning at the time he didn't see this as something urgent either.
12 posted on 05/30/2002 12:38:28 PM PDT by kattracks
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To: SerpentDove
"Why, when I do a search for FBI, does nothing come up? This is a serious question."

That will continue to be ignored, then "bang" they'll be back.

Try doing one on CIA, same thing happening to me. Those threads are probably "out for cleaning".

13 posted on 05/30/2002 12:48:37 PM PDT by rdavis84
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To: kattracks
On 9-11 or a day or two after, a reporter, a live T.V. dialogue, quoted an unnamed and much shaken Pentagon survivor; as my memory permits:

"We have failed the American people."

At that time (of broadcast), it seemed to imply, "forgive us...we have failed you". I have not seen this clip or references to it since. Has anyone else? The FBI has company on the current blame-gaming tables.

Finger pointing at this stage is kind of moot. We have 10 fingers. Let us use them all well. If we don't, our hands will be chopped off and nothing positive shall be accomplished.

14 posted on 05/30/2002 12:53:12 PM PDT by poetknowit
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To: sinkspur
Your accusation would work except the that the information coming out points to Bush, Ashcroft and Mueller, not Clinton, Reno and Freeh (though he is equally guilty). It was the FBI under Mueller and Ashcroft that denied the FISA on Moussaoui. It was Ashcroft that decided that anti-terrorism didn't make the FBI priority list, and denied requests to shift agents and funding to that effort.

It was the Bush administration that completely disregarded the Hart-Rudman report (commissioned under Clinton) that identified the the current problems with our anti-terrorist efforts. It was the Bush Administration that ignored the Gore Commission Report that discussed aviation safety and security. And it was the Bush administration that pulled surveillance off of the bin Laden family.

If maybe the FBI hadn't been so concerned with investigating Clinton's sexual escapades, and if the Bush administration had not come in with the ABC (Anything But Clinton) position, they would have recognized the threats earlier and been able to prevent it. In the military, the commanding officer is responsible for his men, and when something happens, that officer accepts responsibility and steps aside. It's time for Ashcroft to accept responsibility and step aside.

"This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country." [Teddy Roosevelt]

15 posted on 05/30/2002 12:56:39 PM PDT by T Roosevelt
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To: T Roosevelt
You're going to get absolutely ripped to shreads for that post......but thanks for saying what you did.

It's always easier here to just blame Clinton....forever.

16 posted on 05/30/2002 1:02:34 PM PDT by Dazedcat
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To: Asclepius
Wright began crying as he concluded his remarks at a Washington press conference Thursday. "To the families and victims of September 11th - on behalf of [FBI Special Agents] John Vincent, Barry Carmody, and myself -- we're sorry," Wright said before walking out of the room.

The field agents aren't the problem; the problem lies with the leadership. They lie, they cover up, they ignore terrorists when they kill Americans. And when they aren't engage in any of that, they're incinerating people or shooting them in the back.

17 posted on 05/30/2002 1:09:07 PM PDT by Reactionary
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To: Reactionary
Err, engaged.
18 posted on 05/30/2002 1:09:38 PM PDT by Reactionary
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To: sinkspur
Gee, sunk spur, seems you've changed manner since yesterday. Now you're taking about the same line I put to you yesterday. BTW, can't seem to find some of your more "outspoken" replies from yesterday. Any idea where they went? 

"Well, some major housecleaning needs to take place.

Bureaucracies stagnate, and the mission of "lifers" becomes to protect turf at all costs.

This kind of stuff happens in companies all the time. Cut several layers of management as a start, and lower the retirement age."

8 posted on 5/30/02 2:14 PM Central by sinkspur

Another FBI Agent Blows the Whistle on 9-11 ^
      Posted by rdavis84 to sinkspur
On News/Activism ^ May 29 9:49 PM #66 of 133 ^

"Mueller and Ashcroft announced a reorganization today,"

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.


19 posted on 05/30/2002 1:09:55 PM PDT by rdavis84
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To: T Roosevelt
It was the Bush Administration that ignored the Gore Commission Report that discussed aviation safety and security

You mean this report?

Washington Times. EDITORIAL. May 18, 2002 "Nearly a decade ago, in 1995, an al Qaeda plot to use commercial airliners to blow up the CIA headquarters at Langley, among other targets, was uncovered in the Philippines. It was named "Operation Bojinka," or "the big bang." As a consequence, Vice President Al Gore was appointed to head an airport-security task force. Those recommendations were eventually rejected by the White House as "racial profiling." When the investigations begin, no question should go unasked and unanswered. The Democrats might wish they had never got what they asked for."

20 posted on 05/30/2002 1:11:54 PM PDT by Polybius
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