I recall being told that Trento is well known to and spoken highly of by a former terror advisor who worked for the State Department, the Pentagon and with FBI and CIA agents associated with Afghanistan, Bin Laden and the OKC bombing. The terror official worked tirelessly to expose the truth in the OKC bombing after he retired in December 1995. And the terror official briefed the legal counsels for the Senate Judicary and Senate Intelligence committee about FBI misconduct.
The terror official, like the CIA, was not happy with the way the FBI was being run. The terror official approved my letter to the editor for the New American MAgazine in 1998 (posted on FR) which describes the officials remarks about FBI misconduct to the Senate Judiciary legal counsel in my presence.
I suspect (but do not know) that Joe Trento (an expert on the CIA) got the FBI documents from someone displeased (either CIA or FBI sources or both) with the way the FBI is being run.
FBI agents Coleen Rowley and Ken Williams went to the CIA after being stonewalled by the FBI in Washington about the FBI agents' informattion on Bin Laden hijacker pilot (Phoenix and Minneapois)training missions prior to 9/11/01. These FBI agents' actions also show their concern about how the FBI is being run and was an obvious effort to enlist the help of the CIA since it is well known that the CIA is still not happy with the way the FBI is being run.
Congress in 1997, determined that the FBI shared most of the blame for the Aldrich Ames debacle rather than the CIA becasue the FBI deliberately sat on important information for years that could have been used by the CIA and others to uncover Ames. There are those in the CIA and FBI who have never forgotten how badly the FBI treated the CIA over Ames.
I strongly recommend that people read the following article "Saudis helped 'sustain" al-Qaida?" from WorldNetDaily posted on FR on March 8, 2002. The link is http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/642487/posts.
The artricle describes how evidence collected by the US Mission in Saudi Arabia showing Saudi support for Al-Qaeda was deliberately not sent by the CIA station to Washington. THe article also has ex-diplomats alleging corruption between US officials and Saudi Government officials.
This article also raises questions about the way the CIA, not just the FBI, was being run to keep Saudi support for AlQeda from reaching Washington. Was it because of a renegade CIA station chief or CIA director, or was it because someone in the White House ordered the CIA not to send the reports to Washignton?
The FBI, the CIA and the present and past administrations (Bush and CLinton) should be asked about and to explain these matters to Congress. The cause of these problems must be identified and corrected to ensure a sucessful war on terrorism.
Were Presidents being sandbagged by their own FBI and CIA or were the Presidents asking that certain investigatory actions not be taken by the FBI and CIA for political reasons, actions that in retrospect may have helped make 9/11 less likely?
I am raising these questions in light of these articles because these are some of the questions which I believe COngress should try to have answered to improve security against terrorism and to maintain the confidence of the American people that they are being adequately protected by the FBI, CIA and their elected leaders in the White House, past and present. We need accoutability in order to correct any problems which could still be on going.
FBI director RobertMueller is in effect a holdover from the Clinton adminstration (appointed by Clinton as a US attorney in California) as is George Tenet at CIA. Are these men repeating any mistakes that may have been made under CLinton, now that they are serving under Bush? Are they getting the same instructions from Bush as they got from Clinton or are they sandbagging Bush? Something is wrong and needs to be investigated and corrected fast in my opinion.
I wonder if they ever did?
We did Mueller back when he was nominated, but because the Love Affair just started he became like another god here. After all he served daddy too. "Under the first President Bush, Mueller was Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's criminal division."
"heading up the investigations of the BCCI banking scandal"
From ---- http://www.iwar.org.uk/news-archive/2001/fbi/07-05-01.htm
Probably.
Will anyone discover a smoking gun?
Not likely if the following becomes the accepted version of events and the Dem-liberal-govt-media continue to push this SNAFU as the source of the FBI aversion problem:
NewsMax: Reno Reprimand Prompted FBI's Caution on Moussaoui
1. Jordan is close to Egypt, which is also acessible to the sea. Egypt is sympathetic to anyone who is anti-jew, and especially supportive of Osama Bin Laden. Osama would have access to the ocean to escape to any country by boat.
2. Jordan's chief exports are fertilizers, and other farm related merchandise. His father owned Farm Equipment and sold them. This would be a way to funnel money to Osama. This would also be a way for Osama to get his hands on Nitrates to build fertilizer bombs which could be potentially transported to any place in the world by boat. Jordan also has access to nuclear technologies, or could by them from Saudi Arabia. These technologies would be able to be bought by Bin Laden, or a sympathizer with little problem, provided the price was right.
3. Jordan is 92% Sunni Muslim.
4. Jordan is close to Saudi Arabia, and it would be easy for him to get resources sent to him through sales of goods from Jordan, as well as Saudi Arabia. Much like money laundering, it could be hidden through companies who are sympathetic to Bin Laden's cause, or owned by the Bin Laden Family. Not to mention their cheif exports are agricultural fertilizers, and farm implements.
5. The Jordanian Army is large, and would be able to keep American forces occupied while he made his escape if he is indeed being hosted by the Jordanian government.
6. Jordan is one of the last places that our people would ever look for him.
7. Bin Laden escaped Afghanistan during one of the many surrenders that bought him time to flee. Either that, or Bin Laden was never there in the first place.
I honestly feel that if the CIA looked at Jordan, it's possible that Bin Laden, or someone very close to him is there, who might be able to locate him. Osama is part of a prominent family is Saudi Arabia, and as we all know blood is thicker than water. I feel very positive he still has contacts with them, as it would be necessary for him to be able to gather resources to either fight or flee. With access to large airports, the ability to launder money through exports, and imports of Farm Equipment, An accessible harbor to the sea, close to Saudi supporters, Jordan to me seems one of the most likely areas to hide. Especially since Jordan isn't in the news at all lately.