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Rumsfeld Kept 9-11 Souvenir (ZOT!!! Staff to troll: your name fooled no one)
Associated Press ^
| Fri, Mar 12, 2004
| JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer
Posted on 03/12/2004 3:40:59 PM PST by ClintonHater
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department investigation that criticized FBI agents for taking souvenirs from the World Trade Center site also found that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and a high-ranking FBI official kept items from the Sept. 11 attack scenes.
The final investigatory report said the Justice Department inspector general confirmed Rumsfeld "has a piece of the airplane that flew into the Pentagon." The Associated Press obtained a copy of the report Friday.
Investigators learned Rumsfeld had the airplane part after an FBI agent saw a television interview in which the defense secretary was "holding up pieces of building from the WTC and the Pentagon, saying he kept those items on his desk to remember the terrorist attacks."
A Pentagon spokesman did not immediately respond Friday afternoon for comment.
The Justice Department investigation also collected testimony that Pasquale D'Amuro, FBI Director Robert Mueller's executive assistant director for terrorism until last summer, asked a supervisory agent to "obtain a half dozen items from the WTC debris so the items could be given to dignitaries."
Six items that weren't evidence were gathered and sent to D'Amuro, the report said.
D'Amuro, now the head of the FBI's New York office, said that "he asked for a piece of the building as a memento" and that he was aware that agents had taken such items from other terrorist crime scenes over the years.
He said he got a piece of the building in June 2003 but denied asking for items for dignitaries. D'Amuro left the following month from FBI headquarters as Mueller's top terrorism official to become an assistant director in charge of the New York office.
Joe Valiquette, a spokesman for the New York FBI office, declined to comment Friday.
Surviving family members were surprised by the news.
"Unbelievable," said William Doyle, whose son died in the World Trade Center.
A New York woman suing local authorities for alleged negligence in the Sept. 11 attacks said any souvenir-taking by officials was part of a larger failure to keep enough items, like steel beams, as evidence.
"Everybody has things that they probably should not have from the World Trade Center site," said Sally Regenhard, whose firefighter son died in the towers. "I'm sure there's probably all kinds of people that have all kinds of artifacts."
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clintonhasser; deadnewbieposting; dusrupters; kittenchow; mobydicks; souvenir; strikeupthebanned; thisaccountisbanned; vkpac; zot; zotinside
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To: ClintonHater
If no evidence is taken from a crime scene, what is the big fluffin' deal?
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posted on
03/12/2004 5:35:33 PM PST
by
GretchenEE
(Osama, you're going down.)
To: ClintonHater
I saw your thread at DU....what a pathetic bunch of loosers you guys are.... no one mentioned that Rumsfeld was there when the plane hit. Find something else to whine about
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posted on
03/12/2004 5:36:04 PM PST
by
woofie
( 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.)
To: Fiddlstix; All
"HERE'S MY PIECE OF THE PENTAGON, BUSTER...ZOT ZOT ZOT"
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posted on
03/12/2004 5:39:35 PM PST
by
NewLand
(PRESIDENT BUSH...YOU KNOW WHERE HE STANDS!)
To: ClintonHater; Zavien Doombringer; 4mycountry; Constitution Day; VRWCmember; Poohbah; dighton; ...
Whack-A-Troll!
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posted on
03/12/2004 5:41:12 PM PST
by
mhking
Comment #25 Removed by Moderator
To: ClintonHater
Sadly, Drudge has it as HIS headline right now. What is wrong with him?
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posted on
03/12/2004 5:43:49 PM PST
by
Rightone
To: ClintonHater
I have a piece of the Berlin Wall on my desk as a souvenir. Does that make me evil?
-PJ
To: LindaSOG
Love your ZOT graphic
(I'm gonna steal it. LOL)
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posted on
03/12/2004 6:00:46 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(This Space Available for Rent or Lease by the Day, Week, or Month. Reasonable Rates. Inquire within.)
To: mhking
oooo!
friday night's all right for eviscerating...
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posted on
03/12/2004 6:20:36 PM PST
by
King Prout
(I am coming to think that the tree of liberty is presently dying of thirst.)
To: mhking; ClintonHater; 4mycountry; Fierce Allegiance; TheBigB; VRWCmember; Zavien Doombringer; ...
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posted on
03/12/2004 6:25:30 PM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(The Democrats say they believe in CHOICE. I have chosen to vote STRAIGHT TICKET GOP for years !!)
To: Darksheare
UserID "clintonh8r" is still active as of this writing.
I guess that "bronx zoo" comment was not enough to cause a total ZOT.
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posted on
03/12/2004 6:30:12 PM PST
by
King Prout
(I am coming to think that the tree of liberty is presently dying of thirst.)
To: ClintonHater
BFD, troll. STFU
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posted on
03/12/2004 6:32:15 PM PST
by
King Prout
(I am coming to think that the tree of liberty is presently dying of thirst.)
To: ClintonHater
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posted on
03/12/2004 6:34:18 PM PST
by
ChadGore
("Maybe they thought Saddam would lose the next Iraqi election")
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To: doublestandards
Another new one!!!! Hello!!!
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posted on
03/12/2004 8:29:03 PM PST
by
Not A Snowbird
(You need tons click "co-ordinating")
Comment #36 Removed by Moderator
To: doublestandards
Welcome! Lots of new people lately.
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posted on
03/12/2004 8:31:51 PM PST
by
Not A Snowbird
(You need tons click "co-ordinating")
To: Political Junkie Too
I have a piece of the Berlin Wall on my desk as a souvenir. Does that make me evil? Sure hope not 'cause we have a piece of it too. I want my daughter to pass it down.
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posted on
03/12/2004 8:31:58 PM PST
by
Samwise
(I am going to need to be sedated before this election is over.)
To: MeekOneGOP
DARN!! I missed another one. *weeps* This is so unfair. I want designated comp time.
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posted on
03/12/2004 8:32:39 PM PST
by
4mycountry
("Completely concretely" - - That's "the power of the 'Freeper'.")
To: doublestandards
Yes you are right. Kerry should be prosecuted for treason.
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