This thing is like a snowball. I think it's time the people in FBIHQ who know something about this speak up. <P>This is no laughing matter. When a well-known and credible essayist who has worked in the U.S. government tells the reading public that Colleen Rowley has been wondering if spies or moles made the fateful decisions, she may be saying something huge. She is saying she thinks it is possible that spies within the FBI thwarted attempts to stop or diminish the attacks of Sept. 11. And she wants the reading public to know this. Ms. Noonan uses the words "The depth and extent of the system failure, at least within the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was greater than citizens knew," and she knows what she's doing. She's saying: This may be true. When she puts this Mole hypothesis on the Editorial Page of the Wall Street Journal that she knows will be read by many people, she is telling those people to consider the possibility that spies or moles had some part in the attack on America.
By the way, where was Eric Holder during all this? And where is he now?
Follow the Saudi money.
There have been reports
that there is a lot of it
floating around the FBI, CIA
and State Department.
Pipelines and oil money
may also have a role to play
in this story.
(Unfortunately, we may never learn the details)
According to this 5/8/02 “60 Minutes II” story: Could It Have Been Stopped? Holder was in the thick of things::
Until last year Eric Holder was deputy attorney general in the Justice Department. One of his responsibilities was reviewing hundreds of FISA applications. “Under FISA you have the ability, over a specified period of time, to not only do one search, but to do a number of searches, and then to take that from that person anything that's of foreign intelligence value,” he says.
Holder joined the D.C. office of law firm Covington & Burling on 5/3/01.