What the FBI Knew Before 9/11 (Oldie- not conspiracy theory)

he independent commission charged with investigating 9/11 is now turning its attention to the FBI and apparent intelligence failures in the months before the attacks.

The commission is hearing testimony today from current and former intelligence officials, including former FBI Director Louis Freeh, former Attorney General Janet Reno and current Attorney General John Ashcroft.

The release of the president's daily intelligence briefing from Aug. 6, 2001, has raised new questions about the FBI's handling of the terrorist threat leading up to 9/11. The main question — what was the FBI doing in the summer of 2001?

The Bush administration has said there were 70 investigations conducted by FBI field offices looking for evidence of al Qaeda activity in the United States. But some members of the 9/11 commission said they could find no evidence to support that assertion.

"To date, we have found nobody — nobody at the FBI — who knows anything about a tasking of field offices," commissioner Tim Roemer, a former Democratic congressman from Indiana, said last week.

Sources tell ABCNEWS that senior FBI officials were 95 percent to 98 percent certain that an attack was coming, but did not believe it would occur in the United States.

" Commissioners will want to find out why senior FBI officials were not aware of important information their field agents had developed, including a memo by Phoenix FBI Agent Ken Williams, describing suspected al Qaeda members training at U.S. flight schools."

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I was thinking about this yesterday in relation to the school shooting in Florida- how the FBI had tons of information about what as going to happen and did nothing with it. My buddy, Joe Spor/FDNY, was murdered running into the tower to save people...now we have young people murdered because nothing was done with the information at hand...things need to change soon..

This raises another question for 9/11 commissioner Richard Ben Veniste. "Why was there not an effort to pulse the FBI, to send a message throughout the FBI, 'Tell us everything that you got'?"

It's expected that the FBI will acknowledge it did not keep track of its own investigations — an admission officials have made before.

"Unfortunately this is an age-old and repeated problem in the FBI, where there is information somewhere in the agency, but it is not adequately shared with other parts of the agency, much less with agencies outside of the FBI," said Michael Bromwich, former Justice Department inspector general. "

This raises another question for 9/11 commissioner Richard Ben Veniste. “Why was there not an effort to pulse the FBI, to send a message throughout the FBI, ‘Tell us everything that you got’?”

It’s expected that the FBI will acknowledge it did not keep track of its own investigations — an admission officials have made before.

“Unfortunately this is an age-old and repeated problem in the FBI, where there is information somewhere in the agency, but it is not adequately shared with other parts of the agency, much less with agencies outside of the FBI,” said Michael Bromwich, former Justice Department inspector general.

Note- Randy Glass was working undercover for the FBI.

Early August 2001: Government Informant Warns Congressmen of Plan to Attack the WTC

Randy Glass.
Randy Glass, a former con artist turned government informant, will later claim that he contacts the staff of Senator Bob Graham (D-FL) and Representative Robert Wexler (D-FL) at this time, and warns them of a plan to attack the World Trade Center, but his warnings are ignored. [PALM BEACH POST, 10/17/2002]

Glass also tells the media at the present time that his recently concluded informant work has “far greater ramifications than have so far been revealed,” and, “potentially, thousands of lives [are] at risk.” [SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL, 8/7/2001] Glass was a key informant in a sting operation involving Pakistani ISI agents who were illegally trying to purchase sophisticated US military weaponry in return for cash and heroin. He will claim that in July 1999, one ISI agent named Rajaa Gulum Abbas pointed to the WTC and said, “Those towers are coming down.” [PALM BEACH POST, 10/17/2002]

Most details will apparently remain sealed. For instance Glass will claim that his sealed sentencing document dated June 15, 2001, lists threats against the WTC and Americans but, according to Glass, “[t]he complaints were ordered sanitized by the highest levels of government.” [WPBF 25 (WEST PALM BEACH), 8/5/2002]

Florida State Senator Ron Klein, who has dealings with Glass before 9/11, will say he is surprised it took so many months for the US to listen to Glass. “Shame on us,” he will say. [PALM BEACH POST, 10/17/2002] Klein will recall getting a warning from Glass, though he cannot recall if it mentions the WTC specifically. He will say he was told US intelligence agencies would look into it. [WPTV 5 (WEST PALM BEACH), 10/7/2002]

Graham will later acknowledge that his office has contact with Glass before 9/11, and is told about a WTC attack, saying, “I was concerned about that and a dozen other pieces of information which emanated from the summer of 2001.” However, Graham will say that he personally is unaware of Glass’s information until after 9/11. [PALM BEACH POST, 10/17/2002] In October 2002, Glass will testify under oath before a private session of the 9/11 Congressional Inquiry, and tell it that he has “specific evidence, and I can document it.” [PALM BEACH POST, 10/17/2002]

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