Posted on 05/29/2002 6:42:02 PM PDT by mdittmar
FBI Special Agent Robert G. Wright Jr. will hold a news conference Thursday in Washington to reveal FBI negligence and obstruction of counterterrorism investigations targeting Hamas and al-Qaeda.
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, said its co-counsel David Schippers would join Wright at the press conference.
"Special Agent Wright, of the FBI's Chicago Division, is the only agent in the history of the FBI to have used the civil forfeiture laws to seize over $1.4 million dollars in Hamas terrorist money in connection with a criminal investigation of terrorist money laundering operations here in the United States," Judicial Watch said.
Minneapolis FBI agent Coleen Rowley has corroborated Wright's experiences dealing with FBI headquarters and senior management, "who consistently delayed, down-played and soft-peddled the investigative efforts of counterterrorism agents in the field," the organization said.
Stay tuned.
More grandstanding (read: fundraising fodder) from Judicial Watch.
Mueller and Ashcroft announced a reorganization today, which means nobody cares what Schippers, Wright, and their pimp, Klayman, have to say.
If listening to Limbaugh is like drinking Kool-Aid, listening to Jones is swilling nuclear waste.
In light of Brisard and Dasique's allegations, the last several days have offered a number of corroborating news stories. A twelve year veteran agent with the FBI named Robert G. Wright, Jr. has filed suit in Washington D.C.'s District Court alleging that the agency willfully ignored terrorist threats from Hamas. According to Wright, the FBI intentionally thwarted his efforts to curtail Hamas activities in America that threatened American citizens. Wright's lawsuit came one day after Congress chastised the FBI for failing to look into warnings from Arizona agents about suspicious Arab men seeking flight training at American aviation schools.
Wright has compiled a 500-page manuscript detailing the FBI's failures on the anti-terrorism front entitled, "Fatal Betrayals of the Intelligence Mission." If his work is allowed to be published, it may well authenticate concerns voiced by John O'Neill before his death. As it stands, the fact that an FBI agent has brought suit against the agency for intentionally ignoring terrorist threats against America lends a great deal of credence to the claims levied by Brisard and Dasique. The American television news magazine '60 Minutes' has entered the fray, recently airing a program that questioned the FBI's failure to follow up on a variety of leads prior to 9/11 that, if pursued, may well have thwarted the plot.
William Pitt, insultingly titled article, "Hell to Pay".
I tend to believe the guy closest to the fight.
And what will tomorrow bring?
But it's extremely doubtful that Larry Klayman will do anything useful about this dismal situation. It's just another fund-raising ego-trip.
Oh sure....yeah....that makes me feel soooo much better....
So do I, but piling on is unseemly.
Klayman sees a parade and races to get in front of it so the gullible will think he was there all along.
Probably a little CYA mixed in with some good intentions.
What did Freeh know and when did he know it?
There! I always wanted to say that.
Oh sure....yeah....that makes me feel soooo much better....
Well, what should they do? Kill themselves?
Honestly, what would you have the FBI do, J. Edgar?
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