This is not a new story. The LA Weekly apparantly just picked up on it.
It was posted here via Newsmax article dated 3-14-02
Scandal Inside the FBI: Did G-Men Miss the Boat on 9-11?
Wes Vernon
Thursday, March 14, 2002
WASHINGTON – NewsMax.com has learned that active FBI Special Agent Robert Wright Jr. is about to blow the whistle on his superiors for hindering investigations that might have prevented the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm, scheduled, then postponed, a press conference for Wednesday where Wright, cloaked in anonymity until now, was going to tell the entire story.
The shocking details should be out in a few days.
Wright complains that when he tried to continue and pursue certain terrorist investigations, he met with retaliation from his bosses and from the Justice Department, which made it clear that it wanted the probes to go no further.
Prior to putting off the news conference, Judicial Watch said that "based on the evidence, the FBI special agent believes that if certain investigations had been allowed to run their course, Osama bin Laden’s network might have been prevented from committing the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks which resulted in the deaths of nearly 3,000 innocents."
Insiders believe that after this full story breaks, Wright’s career will be toast. Only public outrage can save him.
Meanwhile, Judicial Watch, which is representing Wright, is requesting a full independent investigation.
Assisting the law firm in this case is none other than David Schippers – the same Schippers whose quiet, methodical and damning leadership in the Clinton investigation led to the then-president’s impeachment.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/3/13/94339.shtml
Wash Times article from May 30, 2002 here
http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/30052002-054621-5800r.htm
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"Wright, who is attached to the Chicago Field Office of the FBI, held a Washington news conference sponsored by Judicial Watch -- a private, conservative watch dog group -- at which he read from and released a copy of a lawsuit he has launched against the FBI, and an exchange of letters about a book he is seeking to publish. He declined to answer questions."
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Remember this guy. Not that he doesn't have some valid info, but he's the guy who was writing the book and they wouldn't let him publish it they claimed because of an ongoing investigation.
Remember him, the guy that started crying at the Washington Press Conference?
He may well have valid information, but a lot of people that commented on this story back in March were fairly skeptical about a guy that seemed to have as his top priority publishing a book. The FBI wouldn't give it the green light so he hired Larry Klayman and filed a lawsuit and started holding press conferences.