Gertz like the Senate Intel Committee investigative report have erroneously concluded that major terror attacks on the US were the result of FBI ignorance and ineptitutde and political correctness (Gertz).
Instead, it was and still is FBI & DOJ foreknowledge, lying and connivance for the 9/11,1993 WTC and OKC attacks. For the correct conclusions see this article on FR and the evidence presented in the entire thread:
"FBI and DOJ Connivance Permeates, Interconnects Terror Attacks "
8/15/2002
Link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/733759/posts
For details on the Senate Intel report see;
"Senate Report on Pre-9/11 Failures Tells of Bungling at F.B.I."
New York Times ^ | 8/27/02 | PHILIP SHENON
Posted on 08/27/2002 7:57 PM Pacific by kattracks
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More of my comments:
The FBI has been and still is tracking 5 ALQaedfa cells in the US which the FBI informant Ali Mohammed set up from 1992 to 1998. Bob Woodward quoted senior FBI officals about the 5 AlQaeda cells which the FBI is still following (rather than arresting or deporting their members) in the Washingtomn Post last fall 2001.
The FBI (New York , OKC and DC FBI offices)was tracking the terror pilots at Airman Flight school near OKC in 1999 and in Arizona (Hanny HAnjour)in 1998. The FBI learned in detail of the Khaild Mohammed plot to crash airliners into US scycrappers in the Philippines in January and Feb 1995 from Ramzi Yousef's computer and from the FBI interrogation of Abdul Murad. The FBI learned even more about pilot training to carry out the mission from defendents who testified at the 1998 trial for the Tanzanian and Kenyan bobmings.
The FBI has been and still is lying to COngress, the AMerican people and to Bill Gertz about the FBI foreknowledge and connivance. The FBI lying is not just to throw off the bad guys, it is to spread FBI propaganda to save the FBI, DOJ, the White Houses of two adminstrations and some Congressmen (like Istook, Inhofe and Saxton) from criticism of failures and to maintain their jobs, salaries, and pensions. Until the FBI, DOJ and the White House learn to stop lying and spend more time drasically improving their policies, the US will not be safe enough from terror attacks.