Gee, why would the Detroit office of the FBI have it's own counter terror interrogators?
More about the layer representing the panty bomber...
Now, meet Umar Abdulmutallabs lawyer, Miriam Siefer, whose salary you are paying.
If the name sounds familiar, thats because youve read about Siefer on this site, before. During the Detroit terror cell case, she represented Karim Koubriti, an Islamic terrorist in a cell, which plotted to blow up the U.S. Air Force Base in Turkey, where U.S. AWACS and Israeli F-16s are based and from where they took off. They also plotted to blow up hotels and casinos in Las Vegas and planned to detonate in Disneyland.
During the course of her representation of terrorist Koubriti, Siefer and her fellow public defender, Richard Helfrick a/k/a Rick Helfrick (who will probably also assist her in representing Abdulmutallab), stole the stationery of the then-Chief Judge of the Federal Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Lawrence Zatkoff, forged Zatkoffs name, and sent it to another attorney in the case, accusing him of faking invoices (which wasnt true). That makes at least several federal crimes that I can think oftheft, forgery, impersonating a federal official, mail fraud, etc. but they got away with it.
In an interview, Judge Gerald Rosen, who presided over the Detroit terror cell case, admitted to me that Siefer and Helfrick forged the documents.