Senator wants FBI to explain bonus for official in 9/11 case

Washington Times ^ | 1/11/03 | Jerry Seper

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FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III has been asked by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee to justify an award he gave to an FBI official who refused requests by Minneapolis agents for a warrant to search the computer of terror suspect Zacarias Moussaoui.

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[Alpha One]

I bet this will really shake things up and will force everyone involved to come clean. </ sarcasm>

Oh well, at least they're making look like they're interested.

[holyscroller]

Please post the followup to this if anything ever comes of it. Thanks!

[Imal]

Bonus? Naw, they just paid him by the body.

[mrustow]

Chcuk Grassley and Dan Burton are the only pols I know of, who are holding the FBI's feet to the fire, especially regarding abuse of power.

[Reactionary]

Even on the morning of 9/11 they refused to allow FBI agents in Minneapolis to search Moussaoui's hard drive, and the reprimanded the Minneapolis field agents for contacting the CIA directly.

This was after, mind you, the towers had been hit.

The French intelligence service had provided the FBI with information regarding Moussaoui's membership in Al Queda, yet the leadership would not allow field invesigators to hold him as a terrorist suspect (they actually arrested him for overstaying his VISA).

This stinks to high heaven. Either the FBI's incompetent or the leadership should be charged with treason. "They didn't understand the significance of his arrest?" My eye. They knew very well that Moussaoui was involved with a known terrorist group that had killed Americans. They were told so by the French intelligence service.

[mrustow]

It's a criminal sort of incompetence and caution, and it's been going on for a long time.

[mrustow]

Oh, and cronyism, lest I forget.

[Uncle Bill]

Bttt

[ntrulock]

The point of the bonus was to reassure the good ol' boys in the Bureau that no matter how much bad PR they get, they will still be taken care of. Also sends a message to Coleen Rowley that the press can't protect her forever.

[Reactionary]

I think you're right about the bonus. What interests me, however, is exactly what agenda is at work here. I do not believe it's simply a matter of incompetence, and I'm far from believing any of the convenient excuses that have been offered by the FBI and others.

On the face of it, one has to conclude that the FBI and CIA have been compromised and cannot be reformed. Numerous examples can be pointed to, among them Wen Ho Lee and his wife being on the FBI and CIA payrolls while evidently working as double agents for communist China, the Moussaoui case and the refusal of FBI officials to heed French intelligence reports connecting him to Al Quaeda. Also, the business concerning Oklahoma City and "others unknown" and the situation in Boston concerning the FBI and mob informants.

The solution, of course, has been to further consolidate our intelligence services through the Office of Homeland Security, thus isolating the leadership from responsibility for their failures thus far. In my opinion, this was a huge mistake that will further compromise our national security.

On a personal note, I want to thank you for all of the work that you've done. You've helped everyone to see things as they really are and not as the careerists would like us to believe they are. Keep fighting the good fight. You do us all proud as Americans.

[ntrulock]

Thanks for your kind words. RE: what went wrong. White House officials made it very clear that they didn't want to hear about espionage or international terrorist attacks on the U.S. or a host of other things. This message came through loud and clear to bureau/agency managers who then censored what went "downtown" to the White House. It can't happen here, became on mantra, another was dismissing anything that didn't fit their "let's pretent" view of the world as a worse case scenario. The latter became a tool of derision throughout the IC, but as the world saw on 9/11, sometimes worse cases do come true.

[Mulder]

I bet this will really shake things up and will force everyone involved to come clean. </ sarcasm>

Maybe we could get Henry Kissinger to investigate this.

He is such an honest man and great patriot.