The book "Prior Knowledge of 9/11" first published in November 2006, had already documented the fact with publicly available government documents that George Tenet, Cofer Black and Richard Blee, had intentionally withheld the information on Mihdhar and Hazmi from the FBI. But it is strictly not true that they withheld this information from the entire FBI, just the FBI criminal investigators that could have caught up with Mihdhar and Hazmi before they had time to take part in the attacks on 9/11. Both FBI Agent Dina Corsi and her supervisor Rod Middleton, were told on August 22, 2001 and August 23, 2001 respectively that both Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US. As documented in this book, this information also went to Tom Wilshire, on August 22, 2001. Wilshire was a former CIA manager who had been mysteriously moved over to be a high level manager position in the FBI ITOS unit, and was in charge of both Corsi and Middleton at this time. Wilshire had sent a email to his CTC managers on July 23, 2001, Blee, Black and Tenet, stating that Mihdhar would be found at the location of the next big al Qaeda attack. This same email also asked for permission, for the second time, to give the information on Mihdhar and Hazmi and their role in planning the Cole bombing at the Kuala Lumpur al Qaeda planning meeting to the FBI, (to the FBI Cole bombing investigators). His CIA managers, Blee, Black, and Tenet twice refused to give him permission to give this information to the FBI Cole bombing investigators.

But what is even more horrific is that when Corsi and her Supervisor Rod Middleton forbid FBI Agent Steve Bongardt and his team of Cole bombing investigators from starting any investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi, on August 28, 2001, their boss Wilshire, and consequently his supervisors, Blee, Black and Tenet, all knew that a huge al Qaeda attack was just about to take place inside of the US that would kill thousands of Americans, and knew by blocking this investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi, it would allow this attack to take place.

While Clarke claims he has no proof that Blee, Black and Tenet, had deliberately withheld this information from him and the FBI, the proof that they did is now well documented in this book, and incredibly all of this proof came from just publicly available information from the governments own investigations of 9/11.

This was just one aspect of their bizarre conduct. How about the out and out lies to the Joint Inquiry Committee and to the 9/11 Commissioners at the public hearings lies that were obvious at the very time they were told in these hearings.

Cofer Black said the CIA had given the FBI all of the information they had from day one. But the Joint Inquiry Committee found out quickly that was nothing but a complete lie.

George Tenet said, at the 9/11 Commission public hearings on April 14, 2004, even when he knew a huge al Qaeda attack was just about to take place inside of the US in August 2001, and knew these attacks would kill thousands of Americans he did not tell the President this in August 2001 since he had not talked to the President in all of August. Tenet said that the President was in Crawford and he was in Washington DC, and that was the reason he had not talked to the President. When Tim Roemer asked him why he did not pick up the telephone and call him, Tenet said he had not picked up the phone and call the President and said he could not go beyond that as his explanation.

When Tenet was asked why he did not tell the other Principles at the very first Principles meeting on the al Qaeda terrorists on September 4, 2001 in the White House, when he knew that this al Qaeda attack was just about to take place, he said for what reason it was not appropriate. It seems it was more appropriate to allow the al Qaeda terrorists to kill thousands of Americans than bring up this imminent al Qaeda attack at this meeting and what could be done to save all of these people just about to be murdered by these terrorists. Incredibly Tenet, Rice, Clarke, Ashcroft and Rumsfeld already knew about this huge al Qaeda attack at this meeting, so at least 5 people at this meeting already knew that thousands of Americans were just about to die in this attack. What is almost beyond belief is that this was the very first Principles meeting held in the White House about the al Qaeda terrorists.

It is clear that all of these people who were involved were acting with impunity, and clearly aware that they would face no negative consequents by allowing these attacks to take place. In fact after the al Qaeda attacks, many were promoted and many were given big cash bonuses. Corsi was acting under the direction of Middleton and Wilshire, and Middleton himself was in fact working for Wilshire. Wilshire even though he had been moved to be the Deputy Chief of the FBI ITOS unit was still clearly working under orders from very high level CIA managers, Blee, Black and Tenet. The responses to his emails on July 5, 2001, July 13, 2001, and July 23, 2001 clearly demonstrate this.

When Tenet flew out to Crawford to have 6 hour meeting with President Bush on August 24, 2001 he knew Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US, knew these terrorists were inside of the US in order to take part in a massive al Qaeda attack that would kill thousands of Americans, and even knew by August 23, 2001 that Moussaoui had been arrested by the INS at the behest of the Minneapolis FBI. So the big question is what did Tenet tell the President at this meeting. Since Tenet out and out lied at the April 14, 2004 9/11 Commission hearings, and said he had not talked to the President in August, this cut off any further questions on what did he tell the President and what did the President tell Tenet about sharing this information with the FBI. When the question was cut off by Tenets’ absurd answer, we still don’t know what he had told the President in August about this attack.

But it is clear the many people that had deliberately allowed the al Qaeda terrorists to carry out the attacks on 9/11 were clearly acting under orders that must have come from people very high in the countries chain of command, and knew whatever they did, they would be protected by these very high level people. That is the only thing that makes even the slightest bit of sense.

Noise, I have pieced back together virtually every known bit of information from every known report I could find about the attacks on 9/11. I think I can answer almost every question about these attacks.

Just ask me what you think is still missing.

I can tell you if I have found this information and answer your question, or if I have not yet been able to find this bit of information. I believe at this point virtually every bit of information on 9/11 is now in the public domain.

Noise you are absolutely right, Bongardt knew that the wall was nothing but a complete fiction used by FBI HQ and FBI IOS Agent Dina Corsi to illegally shut his investigation down. He not only knew this but knew this would result in allowing a massive al Qaeda attack inside of the US and that as a result many people would die. He knew this and yet could do nothing to prevent Corsi from shutting down his investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi, unless he got a decision by NSLU allowing him to continue his investigation.

When he asked Corsi to get an opinion from the FBI NSLU on this to see if he and his team could investigation and find Mihdhar and Hazmi before they carried out some horrific al Qaeda attack inside of the US, Corsi told him on August 29, 2001 that the Attorney Sherry Sable had ruled that he and his team could have no part in any investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi.

What Corsi, and Middleton, did not tell Bongardt was that Sherry Sabol had actually ruled that since the NSA information in her EC had absolutely nothing to do with any FISA warrant, Bongardt and his team could take part in any investigation and search for Mihdhar and Hazmi and if Corsi was still confused she, Corsi, herself could go to the NSA and get a release, unaware that she had already been granted this release two days earlier.

What you are leaving out, from the September 20, 2001 Joint Inquiry public hearings is that Corsi told Bongardt on September 28-29, 2001, that if even one piece of paper was ever found at the FBI New York FBI office with his name and the name Khalid al-Mihdhar, he was through forever as a FBI agent.

They lied and used fear to and scare techniques to force Bongardt off of this investigation. Bongardt even said “some day when people die, I hope NSLU will stand behind their decisions" unaware that Corsi had lied to shut down his investigation and allow the al Qaeda terrorists to murder 3000 people on 9/11!

Now do you know why I think this was one massive criminal conspiracy that was never even explained in any sort of way by any of these 9/11 government investigations. None of these investigations could even begin explain why the CIA and FBI HQ had deliberately allowed these horrific al Qaeda attacks to take place!

No, not at first, the withholding was done to hide the CIA culpability in the Cole bombings. The CIA had photographed everyone at the Kuala Lumpur al Qaeda planning meeting and then let them walk away to carry out the Cole bombing. The CIA was desperately trying to hide this fact. Why Tom Wilshire blocked FBI Agent Doug Miller's CIR on Mihdhar and his multi-entry visa for the US from going to the FBI on January 5, 2000 is still a mystery to me. It appears that the CIA just did not want this name to ever get to the FBI for some as of yet unknown reason. This was 10 months prior to the Cole bombing.

To hide the Kuala Lumpur meeting, the CIA along with FBI HQ units they had subjugated, in particular the Bin laden unit at FBI HQ, had criminally obstructed the FBI criminal investigation by the FBI Cole bombing investigators numerous times.

Then the CIA realized that to hide this criminal obstruction they had to continue to hide the information that Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi had been at the Kuala Lumpur meetings with Walid Bin Attash, the mastermind of the Cole bombing actually planning this attack.

When Mihdhar and Hazmi were found to be inside of the US on August 22, 2001, this criminal conspiracy continued, although at the time, Wilshire, the entire CIA management and many managers at the FBI HQ also knew that Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US only in order to take part in a massive al Qaeda attack that would kill thousands of Americans.

When these high level CIA and FBI managers allowed Corsi and Middleton to shut down Bongardt’s investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi they all had to know that the direct result of their actions would be to allow the al Qaeda terrorists to murder thousands of Americans in the massive al Qaeda attack they had been warned about since April 2001.

Gillespie was never part of this inner circle of this conspiracy. Wilshire had asked Alec station management when he was moved over to the FBI ITOS to spy on Bongardt and his team, to get a low level IOS agent up to speed on the Kuala Lumpur meeting, apparently so he had someone he could use as a source into the CIA and their cable data base when he needed it. The CIA assigned this to Gillespie on July 13, 2001. When she discovered the cable on August 21, 2001, that said Hazmi had entered the US on January 2000, she immediately took this to the INS who said that both Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US. She had already discovered a cable on July 24, 2001 that was FBI Agent Doug Miller's CIR to be sent to the FBI on Mihdhar’s passport and multi-entry visa for the US, that had written on the bottom, "Please hold off for now", Deputy Chief of the Bin laden unit, Tom Wilshire, and then found the cable by “Michelle” Wilshire’s CIA desk officer, that said that this information had been sent to the FBI when it had not.

Since Corsi and Wilshire immediately realized that Gillespie, who apparently had never been warned to keep any information on Mihdhar and Hazmi secret from anyone outside of the CIA, had for the very first time allowed this information to go outside of the CIA and Alec station, they also realized that they were now forced to start an investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi. But they also realized that if Bongardt ever started this investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi and then found the photo of Walid Bin Attash at Kuala Lumpur he would have immediately known that the CIA and FBI HQ had criminally withheld this information from him and his team numerous times, and many people at both the COIA and FBI HQ would have gone to prison for years.

To prevent this they decided to start an intelligence investigation for Midhar and Hazmi knowing that the OIPR would never allow a parallel criminal investigation for these terrorists at the same time. On August 22, 2001, Corsi called Craig Donnache and said it was urgent that he immediately start an intelligence investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi, which he did on August 28, 2001. When Donnachie told Corsi he was going to start an intelligence investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi Corsi emailed Wilshire immediately and said, “Craig will open an intelligence investigation for Mihdhar”.

When Bongardt accidentally got Corsi’s EC to start this investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi on August 28, 2001, he called Corsi who said that it was illegal for him and his team to even look at her EC since it had information from a NSA cable, the December 1999 cable that said Khalid, and Nawaf were traveling to an important al Qaeda planning meeting in Kuala Lumpur. What she did not tell Bongardt was that she had already gotten the NSA release in writing to give this exact information to Bongardt just the day before. She also never told Bongardt that she already knew the CIA had a photograph of Bin Attash at the Kuala Lumpur meeting, knew that this directly connected both Mihdhar and Hazmi to the planning of the Cole bombing, and even knew that the CIA had been keeping this hidden for Bongardt and his team so Bongardt would never have enough information to start any investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi.

When this investigation was given to Robert Fuller an intelligence agent at the New York office, he as so inexperienced that he could not find any information in the FBI data base, “Choicepoint” on Mihdhar or Hazmi when it was actually there. When he called Corsi on September 5, 2001 to get her permission to get Mihdhar’s credit card number from Saudi Arabian Airlines so he could continue with his search for any information on Mihdhar and Hazmi in the FBI data base, she refused to give him permission to call Saudi Arabian Airlines, clearly aware that this would make his investigation for Mihdhar fail, which it did.

Almost 3000 people paid with their lives for this monumental treachery by these very high level managers at both the CIA and FBI HQ.

With all due respect, Wright never found why they CIA withheld this information from the FBI Cole bombing investigators. He relied mainly on interviews of FBI agents who also were in the dark.



In all of the reports on 9/11 spanning several thousand pages of information I have found not even one piece of information backing up any of these theories. There were only three know al Qaeda terrorists inside of the US known to the CIA prior to 9/11, Zacarias Moussaoui, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, and by August 16 Moussaoui had already been arrested by the INS at the behest of the Minneapolis FBI. It is hard to image how providing information on just two known al Qaeda terrorists inside of the US to the FBI would overwhelm the CIA with over 20,000 employees. Maybe someone can explain this.

In point of fact the CIA did provide this information to FBI HQ, to both FBI Agent Dina Corsi and to her boss, Rod Middleton. Corsi and Middleton never provided this information, that Mihdhar and Hazmi had been involved in the planning of the Cole bombing, to the FBI Cole bombing investigators, who desperately wanted to search for these al Qaeda terrorists before these terrorists had time to carry out yet another al Qaeda terrorists attack. The FBI Cole bombing investigators were told by Middleton and Corsi, that since these al Qaeda terrorists had engaged in no crime, and the information in Corsi’s EC to start any investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi had come from the NSA, they were forbidden to take part in any investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi. But Corsi had in fact been given permission by the NSA the day before she shut down the FBI criminal investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi, so she had absolutely no legal right to shut down this investigation.

But both Corsi and Middleton, and Tom Wilshire, the former deputy chief of the CIA Bin Laden unit and the deputy chief of their FBI ITOS unit who was actually directing their actions and the even entire hierarchy of the CIA were aware of this information and were even aware that Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US only in order to take part in a massive al Qaeda attack that would kill thousands of Americans. They therefore knew when they allowed Corsi, Middleton and Wilshire to shut down the FBI criminal investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi, that thousands of Americans would perish as a direct result of their actions.

But all of the information on why the CIA and FBI HQ had withheld this information from the FBI Cole bombing investigators ultimately ended up in the DOJ IG report and the other reports on the events on 9/11. When these reports were all aggregated together with other information, the account of Soufan, the 9/11 Commission report, the Joint Inquiry report, the account of the White House meeting on July 10, 2001 between Rice Clarke, and Blee, Black, and Tenet, in Bob Woodward’s book State of Denial, the January 2007 article in Harpers on Richard Blee, and the Defense Exhibits in the Moussaoui trial it was possible to piece this entire account back together again.



The 9/11 Commission had all of the exact same documents that I had, even all of the DOJ IG transcripts of the interviews from the very CIA officers and FBI HQ agents that had taken part in withholding critical information from the FBI Cole bombing investigators and then illegally shut down their investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi. So they could have provided a complete account of 9/11 and never did. Since they had all of the necessary information it looks like they clearly were actually chartered to cover over the crimes at the CIA and FBI HQ that had allowed the al Qaeda terrorists to carry out the attacks on 9/11. By comparing the information that is now known on 9/11 with what the 9/11 Commission reported, in is clear that the 9/11 Commission was nothing but a giant cover up, a complete fraud on the American people, to hide the crimes at the CIA and FBI that had allowed the attacks on 9/11.

From their own words:

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/010510c...

No meaningful fixes are possible without accountability for mistakes or wrongdoing.

Equally important, those witnessing innocent mistakes and worse problems must be able to avail themselves of some kind of job protection, should they summon enough courage to blow the whistle. Sadly, no “whistleblower protection” now exists.

Thus there is no antidote to the secrecy and job-jeopardy regularly invoked to muzzle employees who witness fraud, waste, abuse, and illegal acts. In recent years, these have included heinous behavior like torture, kidnapping, and illegal eavesdropping, as well as untold amounts of misfeasance and other malfeasance that create serious threats and risks to public safety.

Ray McGovern and Coleen Rowley are members of the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

Rowley, a FBI special agent for almost 24 years, was legal counsel to the FBI Field Office in Minneapolis from 1990 to 2003. She came to national attention in June 2002, when she testified before Congress about serious lapses before 9/11 that helped account for the failure to prevent the attacks. She now writes and speaks on ethical decision-making and on balancing civil liberties with the need for effective investigation.

Good questions noise.

Here are some important points;

Since these attacks, Soufan had remained silent for several years, as far as I know other than interviews with Lawrence Wright, until his article April 22, 2009, “My Tortured Decision” in the New York Times .

It is clear that much of the account of FBI Agent Ali Soufan by Wright came directly from Soufan. There are just too many small details that would be hard for anyone else to have known. When he testified in Congress over the interrogation of Abu Zubyda, he was hidden behind a screen so no one could see his face. When the house he bought in New York City was reported with his address in the news he was furious. So after Wright's interviews he has kept to himself other than this 2009 article. Soufan has kept quiet perhaps so as to not interfere with his new business ventures.

Bongardt had also given much information to Wright, but again notice that since Wright’s article Bongardt had not been in the news. He has a very valuable pension to protect.

Other FBI agents involved in the Cole bombing investigation it would appear have also kept quiet, most likely to protect their pensions or under direct orders from the FBI itself.

Unless any of these agents had gone back and found the publically available information scattered over thousands of pages of investigations and pieced it all back together again, they would never have been aware of why even their own investigations had been sabotaged. I doubt if FBI HQ would ever have given this information to these field agents, when all it would have done would be to make the people at FBI HQ look bad.

None of the information I presented in an earlier post was ever in Lawrence Wright's article on Soufan or his book, Looming Tower. Would Wright have left out the fact that Corsi knew at least two weeks ahead of the attacks on 9/11 that the CIA had been deliberately hiding the photo of Khallad from the FBI Cole bombing investigators, a photo that directly connected both Mihdhar and Hazmi who were also at that meeting to the planning of the Cole bombing, if either Soufan or Bongardt had given him this information, information right on page 302 of the DOJ IG report.

While it seems almost inconceivable, it seems that Wright used only information gained from interviews and not information that was in publically available documents. The DOJ IG report came out in May 2006, 4 months ahead of his book, the 9/11 Commission report came out in July 2004 over two years ahead of his book and yet he had left out the information in both of these reports, that Freeh had known about the al Qaeda planning meeting in Kuala Lumpur at the time of Soufan’s request to him asking for information that CIA had on this meeting.

What else explains why Wright left out the fact that Freeh had deliberately not given Soufan the information on the al Qaeda Kuala Lumpur planning meeting when the information that Freeh had been given this information by the NSA and the CIA is listed right on page 181 of the 9/11 Commission report, and on page 238 and 239 of the DOJ IG report. Also note that the fact that Soufan had made this request to Freeh in November 2000 to make an official request to the CIA for information on any al Qaeda meeting in Kuala Lumpur was never in either the 9/11 Commission report or the DOJ IG report, more proof that both of these investigations had been cover ups for the events at the FBI and CIA prior to the attacks on 9/11. Did the 9/11 Commission or the DOJ Inspector General not know who the lead FBI investigator on the Cole bombing was? This is just not possible!

Wright has made the statement “It is a mystery to me that people in the C.I.A. have not been held accountable”, when the direct result of their actions to hide information from the FBI was the murder of almost 3000 people by the al Qaeda terrorists, but he has said nothing about the people at FBI HQ who were also involved, Freeh, Corsi, Middleton and Wilshire.

What did the UBLU (i.e Middleton, Corsi) tell the Cole investigators after 9/11? They must have given them some sort of explanation better than the bullshit about the wall given to the public.

That is an excellent question.

It is clear that it was the CIA that had given Soufan and the other FBI Cole bombing investigators the photos from Kuala Lumpur, perhaps to hide the fact that the FBI HQ already also had this information 2 weeks prior to them shutting down Soufan’s and Bongardt’s investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi.

The information in my prior post shows that Corsi, Middleton and even the FBI HQ had kept all of this information as secret as possible not only before the attacks on 9/11 but after the attacks on 9/11. Why would they ever give information to the FBI Cole bombing investigators that showed that they had intentionally and deliberately allowed the attacks on 9/11 to take place. The fact that this information was never in Lawrence Wright's book, Looming Tower, when the information in his book was given to Wright by FBI Agent Steve Bongardt up to about the spring of 2006 shows that Bongardt was also never aware of this information, and Soufan would have been aware of the same information that Bngardt had.

After the attacks on 9/11 the investigation of the 9/11 terrorists were taken away from Bongardt, Soufan and Samit and given to the FBI Pentbomb investigators, perhaps so the Moussaoui and the Cole bombing investigators would never be able to connect the dots and see that the attacks on 9/11 had deliberately been allowed to take place by the FBI HQ and the CIA.

It is clear that when this Pentbomb investigation seemed to evaporate in mid air not long after it started that they had come across the criminal actions at the CIA and even the FBI HQ that had allowed the al Qaeda terrorists to carry out the attacks on 9/11, information that pointed right at the White House, and knew they had stumbled on to information that was political dynamite.

The information I listed was only public available after the spring, summer and fall of 2006. Soufan had left the FBI by 2005. It is not clear how much of this information that Soufan was aware of by that time, but he had clearly found out enough that he was completely disgusted with the FBI by the time he quit.

On September 12, 20001 the CIA Yemen Station chief gave Soufan a manila envelope with three surveillance photographs from the Kuala Lumpur meeting and a complete report about the this meeting, the very information that Soufan had been requesting from the CIA since November 2000. These were photos of Mihdhar, with one photograph showing both Mihdhar and Hazmi.

Soufan realized immediately that the CIA had known about at least two of the al Qaeda hijackers who took part in the attacks on 9/11 for at least 21 months, had even known that they had entered the US on January 15, 2000 and then had never given him or his team this information. When Soufan realized that the CIA had deliberately hidden this information from him, the very information he and his team had asked for numerous times and the very information that they could have used to have prevented the attacks that had taken place on 9/11 that had cost the lives of almost 3000 people, he went to the wash room and threw up in the sink.

But Soufan was never aware of the extent of the massive treachery that had taken place and even today is probably unaware of the extent of this treachery. I doubt if this information is even in his book.

Soufan was unaware when he asked FBI Director Louis Freeh in November 2000, to make a formal FBI request to the CIA and George Tenet for any information that the CIA had on Walid Bin Attash, or on any al Qaeda meeting in Kuala Lumpur in January 2000 and was told that the CIA did not have any of this information, that Freeh himself had received information from the CIA in January 2000, that Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf were going to an important al Qaeda planning meeting in Kuala Lumpur in January 2000. Because Soufan had attached Khallad’s passport photo to his request, to both the Yemen station and to his request to Freeh, and the CIA, the CIA would have immediately known that Khallad had also been at the Kuala Lumpur al Qaeda meeting, with Mihdhar and Hazmi actually planning the Cole bombing.

Soufan was unaware that when he had flown out to Pakistan to talk to the FBI/CIA Joint Source in February 1, 2001, that CIA Yemen Station, the CIA Pakistan Station, and the CIA Bin Laden unit were all aware that Khallad had been identified by the Joint Source at the Kuala Lumpur meeting just the month before, and knew that Mihdhar and Hazmi had also been at that meeting with Khallad planning the Cole bombing. Yet none of these units ever gave this information to Soufan. The CIA handler for the CIA/FBI joint source was right with Soufan as Soufan presented his Yemen obtained passport photo of Khallad to the Joint source, and knew about the identification of Khallad and yet kept this information secret from Soufan

Soufan was unaware that his April 2001 request for information to the CIA went to both former CIA officer Tom Wilshire, who had been moved over to the FBI ITOS unit, and to CIA officer Clark Shannon. When Wilshire received Soufan's request, instead of giving him the information he had asked for, Wilshire asked FBI HQ Agent Dina Corsi, to set up a meeting with Soufan’s own people so the CIA could find out what these Cole investigators knew about the Kuala Lumpur meeting and Mihdhar and Hazmi. The CIA wanted to know if they had found out in their search for Khallad, that Mihdhar and Hazmi had been at the Kuala Lumpur meeting with Khallad actually planning the Cole bombing.

Soufan was never aware that when FBI Agent Margaret Gillespie was told by the INS that Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US on August 22, 2001, and gave this information to Tom Wilshire and Dina Corsi, that Wilshire knew immediately that these terrorists were inside of the US in order to take part in a massive al Qaeda attack that would kill thousands of Americans.

Soufan was unaware that even FBI HQ Agent Dina Corsi, who had called him in Yemen on September 11, 2001 and had asked him to remain in Yemen, had known by August 22, 2001, and perhaps much before this date, that the CIA had a photograph taken at Kuala Lumpur of Khallad, and knew that the CIA had been keeping this photo secret from him and his team.

Soufan never found out that when Corsi shut down his teams investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi on August 28, 2001, claiming that she needed a release from the NSA for information in her EC before giving it to his team, that she had already been approved for this release the day before. He never even knew that Corsi had fabricated Attorney Sherry Sabol’s ruling, when she had told Bongardt, his assistant, and the rest of his team that they could not take part in any investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi, when Sabol had ruled just the opposite and had ruled that since the NSA information had no connection to any FISA warrant, Bongardt and his team could take part in any investigation for Mihdhar and Hazmi.

Soufan never found out that Corsi’s supervisor, Rod Middleton, had been given the photograph of Khallad taken at Kuala Lumpur by the CIA on August 30, 2001, almost 2 weeks before the attacks on 9/11, a photograph that directly connected both Mihdhar and Hazmi to the planning of the Cole bombing and was more than enough time for his team to have been able to locate these terrorists prior to the attacks on 9/11.

While Soufan was just getting a glimmer of the extent of this treachery, he had no idea of how pervasive and wide spread and massive it had become, and that it ultimately had not only included many groups at the CIA but even groups his own FBI Head Quarters.

Soufan realized that the CIA, the very agency he had trusted, the agency that he thought would have given him critical information in his investigations when he requested it if they were aware of this information, had literally stabbed him in the back and at the same time had stabbed the American people in the back. Soufan realized that this profound treachery had cost the lives of almost 3000 people on 9/11. But Soufan also realized that FBI HQ must have also played a role in this profound treachery. Soufan was so disillusioned that he quit the FBI in 2005, bitterly angry that they had lied to him and his team many times.

According to the 9/11 Commission report, the CIA already had information on June 12, 2001 that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was sending a significant number of al Qaeda terrorists into the US to link up with a number of other al Qaeda terrorists already inside of the US, in order to take part in a al Qaeda terrorist attack. The CIA had already been given the second part of the Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s Bojinka plot to hijack a number of US airliners and crash these into the World Trade Center Towers, the Pentagon, the Capitol build and the CIA headquarters. Since at that time KSM already had a 2 million dollar reward on his head this information would have immediately gone to the very top of the CIA.

But Cofer Black, head of the CTC section said this information got stove piped in the "Rendition" unit at the CIA. But we now know that the "Rendition" unit was under the CTC and was headed, as we find out from a Harpers article, by Richard Earl Blee. This is the very same Richard Earl Blee who headed the CIA Bin Laden unit, Alex Station, also under the CTC, and who was close enough to CTC head Cofer Black and Director of the CIA, George Tenet, that he accompanied them to the White House on July 10, 2001 to tell Condoleezza Rice and Richard Clarke, that a huge al Qaeda attack was just about to take place inside of the US that would kill thousands of Americans. So it is inconceivable that this information on what targets the al Qaeda terrorists were about to attack did not immediately get to both Black and Tenet.

On July 13, 2001 and July 23, 2001 Blee with the concurrence of his higher level managers refused to give Tom Wilshire, former Deputy Chief of the CIA Usama bin Laden unit, permission to pass the Kuala Lumpur information to FBI Agent Steve Bongardt and his FBI Cole bombing investigators. Wilshire had been moved over to the CIA in mid-May 2001 to become Deputy Chief of the FBI ITOS unit. At this time the CIA knew that Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi had been at the Kuala Lumpur meeting with Walid Bin Attash, aka Khallad, the mastermind of the Cole bombing, actually planning the bombing of the USS Cole that had killed 17 US sailors.

Tom Wilshire and FBI HQ Agent Dina Corsi were told on August 22, 2001 that both Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US, and knew immediately that they were in the US in order to take part in this attack that would kill thousands of Americans.

FBI Agent Dina Corsi was the FBI HQ agent Wilshire had used to set up a meeting on June 11, 2001 with the CIA and the Cole bombing investigators to find out what these investigators knew about the Kuala Lumpur meeting and if they knew that Mihdhar and Hazmi had been at that meeting planning the Cole bombing. At that meeting Corsi presented the FBI Cole investigators the three photos of Mihdhar given to her by Wilshire, taken at the Kuala Lumpur meeting, and CIA officer Clark Shannon asked the investigators if they recognized anyone in these photos. When FBI Agent Steve Bongardt said he did not and asked what did the people in these photos have to do with the Cole bombing, he was told by FBI Agent Dina Corsi that she and the CIA would not give them any information on these people due to "the wall", in spite of the fact that the wall never applied to this information.

Blee Black and Tenet continued to allow Wilshire and FBI Agent Dina Corsi, to hide this information from these investigators even after the CIA was told on August 23, 2001 that both Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US and even knew they were in the US in order to take part in this massive al Qaeda attack. The CIA and FBI HQ then allowed Corsi , to shut down Bongardt's investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi when they knew that shutting down this investigation would allow the al Qaeda terrorists to carry out the attacks that were to take place on 9/11.

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There appears no documentation anywhere that documents when information was withheld from the FBI USS Cole bombing investigators this was due to a turf war. There is however much documentation that documents that the CIA working with FBI HQ agents and managers that they had subjugated, criminally withheld material information from the FBI criminal investigators on the Cole bombing to hide their criminal culpability in allowing the bombing of the USS Cole.

Since this criminal conspiracy to hide information from the FBI USS Cole bombing investigators started in earnest at the very same time the CIA found out that they had been culpable in allowing the bombing of the USS Cole, it is clear that this criminal conspiracy to withhold this information from the FBI Cole investigators was primarily due to the CIA wanting to hide their criminal culpability in allowing the Cole bombing.

This is detailed in email between these FBI HQ agents and the FBI field agents on the Cole bombing:

In email back to FBI Agent Steve Bongardt, and head of the USS Cole bombing investigation at the New York FBI filed office, on August 29, 2001, FBI HQ Agent Dina Corsi stated that “if substantial evidence is developed of a federal crime”, (by Mihdhar and Hazmi), this information will be passed over the “WALL”. Corsi claimed that the NSA information she was given by the CIA could not be given to the FBI Cole bombing investigators due to the "WALL".

This literally is the smoking gun, the proof that FBI HQ Agent Corsi, the CIA and the FBI HQ knew that any evidence of a crime immediately nullified the "WALL". This one statement proves that FBI HQ knew they had no legal right to either withhold information from the FBI Cole bombing investigators, or shut down their investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi.

Corsi already had used in her EC to start an investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi, the NSA cable that had been based on a telephone tap of a conversation from the telephone number for the communications center for the east Africa al Qaeda bombings. This connected both Mihdhar and Hazmi not only to the al Qaeda terrorist organization, and the many crimes they had already carried out, but directly to the east Africa bombings that had murdered over 200 people including 12 Americans.

This was clear substantial evidence of a Federal crime.

She also knew that Walid Bin Attash, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi had been at the Kuala Lumpur al Qaeda planning meeting actually planning the Cole bombing, yet another crime that had killed 17 US sailors.

This was more clear substantial evidence of another Federal crime.

So Corsi already had multiple examples of substantial evidence of federal crimes, information she, the FBI HQ, and the CIA had been hiding from FBI Agent Steve Bongardt and his team.

The people who were withholding this information from the FBI criminal investigators on the Cole bombing and who shut down Bongardt's investigation when he found out that Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US, knew exactly what they were doing. This was not due to any failure of individuals to understand, or due to any turf war, but due to criminal actions by individuals at the CIA and FBI HQ to criminal obstruct an on going FBI criminal investigation.

Corsi had already been given a release by the NSA when she told Bongardt that he had to stop his investigation because of NSA restrictions, removed by this release.

Corsi fabricated NSLU FBI Attorney Sherry Sabol’s ruling telling Bongardt that he and his team could not take part in an investigation of Mihdhar, when even the 9/11 Commission report makes it clear that Sabol had ruled that Bongardt could take part in any investigation of Mihdhar.

Corsi tells Bongardt that if there is substantial evidence of a federal crime, this information on Mihdhar and Hazmi will be passed over "the WALL" when she had proof that Mihdhar and Hazmi had taken part in several crimes that had already killed scores of Americans. To claim that was due to a misunderstanding of the “WALL” or to a turf war was a cover up of criminal activity at both the CIA and FBI HQ, and is in line with many other examples that the 9/11 Commission was covering up massive criminal activity at both the FBI HQ and CIA that had allowed the attacks on 9/11 to take place.

The CIA had forbidden CIA officer, Tom Wilshire twice in July from turning any information on Kuala Lumpur over to FBI criminal investigators. Rod Middleton, Corsi's boss, had been given the photo of Walid Bin Attash by the CIA on August 30, 2001, connecting both Mihdhar and Hazmi to the planning of the Cole bombing. Yet he did not alert Bongardt when he now had clear photographic evidence that Mihdhar and Hazmi had taken part in the planning of the Cole bombing and tell him to immediately start a criminal investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi, particularly when he had been on the phone on August 28, 2001 with Corsi shutting down Bongardt’s investigation.

This clearly shows that many higher level managers at “both” the CIA and FBI HQ had been involved in criminally withholding material information from Bongardt’s investigation and then in illegally shutting down Bongardt’s investigation when they were aware this was criminal obstruction. But even worse, both the CIA and FBI HQ had to know when they shut down the only real investigating team that could have stopped Mihdhar and Hazmi in time to prevent the al Qaeda attacks they had been warned about, that their actions would result in the murder of thousands of Americans.

After researching thousands of pages, there appears next to nothing documenting any turf war that would explain why the CIA or FBI HQ withheld material information from FBI field agents in the investigation of the bombing of the USS Cole. When the CIA and FBI HQ knew a huge al Qaeda attack was about to take place inside of the US, knew Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US, knew they were inside of the US in order to take part in this massive al Qaeda attack, and even knew that by shutting down Bongardt’s investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi, thousands of Americans would be killed as a direct result of their actions to shut down Bongardt’s investigation, to claim that the CIA or FBI HQ would let thousands of Americans be murdered because of some supposed turf war makes no sense.

quit what the document says:

From this monograph:



This is pure HORESHIT!

In email back to FBI Agent Steve Bongardt on August 29, 2001, Corsi stated that “if substantial evidence is developed of a federal crime”, (by Mihdhar and Hazmi), this information will be passed over the “WALL”. This literally is the smoking gun, the proof that Corsi, the CIA and the FBI HQ knew that any evidence of a crime immediately nullified the "WALL". This one statement proves that FBI HQ knew they had no legal reason to shut down Bongardt’s investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi.

Corsi already had used in her EC to start an investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi, the NSA cable that was based on the tapped phone conversation from the telephone number for the communications center for the east Africa al Qaeda bombings. This connected both Mihdhar and Hazmi not only to the al Qaeda terrorist organization, and the many crimes they had already carried out, but directly to the east Africa bombings that had murdered over 200 people including 12 Americans.

This was clear substantial evidence of a Federal crime.

She also knew that Walid Bin Attash, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi had been at the Kuala Lumpur al Qaeda planning meeting actually planning the Cole bombing, yet another crime that had killed 17 US sailors.

This was more clear substantial evidence of another Federal crime.

So Corsi already had multiple examples of substantial evidence of federal crimes, information she, the FBI HQ, and the CIA had been hiding from FBI Agent Steve Bongardt and his team.

The people who were withholding this information from the FBI criminal investigators on the Cole bombing and who shut down Bongardt's investigation when he found out that Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US, knew exactly what they were doing. This was not due to any failure of individuals to understand, but due to criminal actions by individuals at the CIA and FBI HQ to criminal obstruct an ongoing FBI criminal investigation.

Corsi had already been given a release from the NSA when she told Bongardt that he had to stop his investigation because of NSA restrictions removed by this release.

Corsi clearly had fabricated Sabol’s ruling that Bongardt could not take part in an investigation of Mihdhar, when even the 9/11 Commission report makes it clear that Sabol had ruled that Bongardt could take part in any investigation of Mihdhar.

Corsi tells Bongardt that if there is substantial evidence of a federal crime, this information on Mihdhar and Hazmi will be passed over "the WALL" when she had evidence that Mihdhar and Hazmi had taken part in several crimes that had already killed scores of Americans. For this report to claim that was due to misunderstanding was a cover up of criminal activity at both the CIA and FBI HQ, and is in line with many other examples that the 9/11 Commission was covering up massive criminal activity at both the FBI HQ and CIA that had allowed the attacks on 9/11 to take place.

The CIA had forbidden Wilshire twice in July from turning any information on Kuala Lumpur over to FBI criminal investigators. Rod Middleton, Corsi's boss, had been given the photo of Walid Bin Attash on August 30, 2001, connecting Mihdhar and Hazmi to the planning of the Cole bombing. Yet he did not alert Bongardt when there was now clear photographic evidence that Mihdhar and Hazmi had taken part in the planning of the Cole bombing and tell him to immediately start a criminal investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi, particularly when he had been on the phone on August 28, 2001 with Corsi shutting down Bongardt’s investigation. This clearly shows that many higher level managers at both the CIA and FBI HQ had been involved in illegally shutting down Bongardt’s investigation and they were aware this was criminal obstruction. But even worse, both the CIA and FBI HQ had to know when they shut down the only real investigating team that could have stopped Mihdhar and Hazmi in time to prevent the al Qaeda attacks they had been warned about, that their actions would result in the murder of thousands of Americans.

From your post:

"It really helps if you read the documents in your posts all the way to the end. Just a helpful tip for future reference."

Maybe you should follow your own advise.

This is an excellent post by eomer, and destroys in fact obliterates any argument that Corsi acted "legally" when she shut down FBI Special Agent Steve Bongardt’s investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi.

The rest of the 35 page "secret" document goes on to further destroy any augment Corsi was working within the law. It even itself concludes that the wall never applied to the information that came from Kuala Lumpur on Mihdhar and Hazmi, since this information had never been connected to any FISA warrant and could never have been legally used as an excuse to shut down this investigation.

Since FISA warrants never applied to information gathered outside of the US, it was never possible for Corsi to legally use this as her excuse to shut down the FBI investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi. So this document that had been posted to show, or imply that “the wall” had somehow allowed Corsi to legally withhold critical and material information from an ongoing FBI criminal investigation, shows just the opposite, that there was no possible justification for her to do this based on the concept of “the wall”. It is clear that the wall was nothing more than a fraud, a criminal ruse that had allowed FBI HQ agents to illegally shut down criminal investigations.

So how had Corsi and the FBI HQ been able to carry out this criminal conspiracy and withhold material information using “the wall”, as their excuse. First she had to keep the fact that the NSA information had never been connected to any FISA warrant secret. Second she then had to make sure that the fact that Mihdhar and Hazmi had taken part in numerous crimes, secret. Once there was “substantial evidence of a Federal crime”, as Corsi wrote in her email to Bongardt on August 29, 2001, the criminal FBI investigators would know there was no way “the wall” would apply to this information. Corsi had to keep secret the fact that Mihdhar and Hazmi were connected to the east Africa bombings. She (and the CIA) also had to keep secret that Mihdhar and Hazmi had taken part in the planning of the Cole bombing by hiding the fact that Walid Bin Attash, mastermind of the Cole bombing, had been photographed by the CIA at Kuala Lumpur.

One note, this document by Barbara A. Grewe is filled with many errors if you can imagine it, most are easy to pick out and fix. Some may be innocent. She not only just does not know what she is talking about, but this report intentionally leaves out many if not most of the critical details of the interaction between the CIA and FBI criminal investigators. These interactions prove that the CIA and FBI HQ had deliberately and intentionally allowed the attacks on 9/11 to take place by illegally shutting down investigations of al Qaeda terrorists inside of the US. These investigations could have prevented the attacks on 9/11. She leaves out this information to continue the massive cover up by the 9/11 Commission that the CIA and FBI HQ had intentionally allowed the attacks on 9/11.

According to this document it says “Subsequently, the analyst (Dina Corsi) sent an email, (on August 29, 2001) to the Cole case agent (Steve Bongardt) explaining that according to the NSLU, the case could only be opened as an intelligence matter, and that if Mihdhar was found, only designated intelligence agents could conduct or even be present at the interview. The case agent (Steve Bongardt) angrily responded that there seems to be some confusion regarding the wall because in his view it only applied to FISA information.“

But the 9/11 Commission report (p 538, footnote 81) says that when Corsi consulted Attorney Sherry Sabol, Sabol told Corsi that since the NSA information did not have any connection to a FISA warrant, since this information was from a wire tap on a phone outside the US, Bongardt could take part in any investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi and if Corsi was still confused, she could go to the NSA and get this release herself unaware that Corsi had already gotten a release the day before. Not only had Corsi lied to Bongardt over what Sabol had ruled but Corsi had concealed from Sabol, the information that she had already gotten a release when she talked to her. What is amazing is that it appears that Grewe never bothered to even read the already available 9/11 Commission report when she was writing this 35 page monograph, for the 9/11 Commission.

What else did Grewe leave out.

According to Grewe: “On August 22, 2001 the FBI analyst (FBI HQ Agent Dina Corsi) and her colleague who was detailed to the CIA (FBI Agent Margaret Gillespie) learned that Mihdhar had entered the United States on January 15, 2000 and again on July 4, 2001”.

What is left out is that this information that al Qaeda terrorists Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US was also given to CIA officer Tom Wilshire on August 22, 2001 by Corsi and Gillespie. Wilshire had been moved to the FBI ITOS unit in mid-may 2001 as Deputy Chief of this unit. Wilshire knew immediately that Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US in order to take part in a massive al Qaeda terrorist attack that would kill thousands of Americans. He had in fact sent this information in email to his managers back at the CIA that not only were the people who had been at the Kuala Lumpur al Qaeda planning meeting connected to the warnings that CIA had gotten about a huge al Qaeda attack about to take place inside of the US, but had identified in his July 23, 2001 email, that in particular Khalid al-Mihdhar would be found at the location of the next big al Qaeda operation.

So what did Wilshire and Corsi do with this horrific information? They never tried to alert any criminal investigators at the FBI that Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US in order to take part in a massive al Qaeda attack that would kill thousands. They kept this information completely secret from FBI Agent Steve Bongardt and his team of Cole bombing investigators, in spite of the fact that both the CIA and FBI HQ knew that Mihdhar and Hazmi had taken part in the planning of the Cole bombing. Beyond all belief Corsi even admits to DOJ IG investigators that she is aware by at least August 22, 2001, that the CIA had a photograph of Walid Bin Attash taken at Kuala Lumpur, knew that this then connected both Mihdhar and Hazmi to the planning of the Cole bombing that took place at Kuala Lumpur. Corsi even knew that the CIA had intentionally been keeping this photo secret from Bongardt and his team to prevent them from having enough evidence to start any investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi.

In July 2001 CIA managers had refused to give permission twice to Wilshire in response to his requests, to turn the information on Kuala Lumpur over to the FBI criminal investigators. So it is clear that this conspiracy was orchestrated by the very highest levels of the CIA.

Since the FBI HQ, and the CIA knew about a huge imminent attack inside of the US by the al Qaeda terrorists that would kill thousands of Americans, it is not believable that they did not also know that by shutting down Bongardt’s investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi, thousands of Americans would be killed in these attacks as a direct result of their actions.

"From a prior post:

"Could you please explain how Bush got the Democratic leadership to do his bidding?"

He did not have too, he just get the 5 members rule for subpoenas. They needed 5 democrats and one Republican to get a subpoenas, something they could never could get because no Republican would allow a subpoena. So how many subpoenas did Kean and Hamilton issue. I am assuming not one.

Your post:

"Lastly, in your final paragraph, you accuse me of defending a criminal cover-up, yet you have never established that one took place. That's called "begging" the question, dude."

I have already established a cover up took place many times at the 9/11 Commission.

I could give you many examples but just look at the information on FBI Director Louis Freeh, just one single example from the many examples of criminal conduct covered up by the 9/11 Commission.

The account of FBI Agent Ali Soufan by Lawrence Wright says that Soufan had asked FBI Director Louis Freeh in November 2000, if Freeh would make an "official request" to the CIA and George Tenet for any information the CIA had on Walid Bin Attash and any meeting in Kuala Lumpur.

Soufan was told that the CIA had none of this information.

But according to page 238-239 of the DOJ IG report, Freeh was given this information by the NSA in December 1999, and according to page 181 of the 9/11 Commission report, this same information was given to Freeh in January 2000 by the CIA and this information appeared in Freeh’s daily briefing papers on January 4, 2000.

Notice that to put this together, since each report left out critical details of this account, you had to use at least three different documents, Lawrence Wright's account of Soufan, the DOJ IG report, and the 9/11 Commission report to get the complete account on just this one single detail on 9/11. The account of Soufan is approximately 20 pages, the 9/11 Commission report about 550 pages, and the DOJ IG report about 380 pages.

But the 9/11 Commission never connected the fact that the CIA had given Freeh the information on the Kuala Lumpur meeting with the fact that Freeh had withheld this information from FBI Agent Ali Soufan in November 2000, a clear case of out and out criminal obstruction.

Does this answer your question: "yet you have never established that one took place".

How in the world would the 9/11 Commission not know that Freeh had withheld this information from FBI agent Ali Soufan, when in fact they actually had public testimony from Freeh, had access to all of the material from DOJ IG interviews, and had to know who the lead of the FBI Cole bombing investigation was.

Also notice that if you read just the 9/11 Commission report you would never know that Soufan had made this request to FBI Director Louis Freeh, and if you read just the DOJ IG report you also would never know about Soufan’s request. It was only after you combined these three reports would you start to have a even a semi-reasonably accurate account of just this one fact, the request by Soufan to Freeh in November 2000 and his out and out criminal obstruction of the FBI’s own investigation of the Cole bombing and the horrific murder of 17 US sailors.

Freeh had not only deliberately withheld critical information from an ongoing FBI criminal investigation into the murder by the al Qaeda terrorists of 17 US sailors but had Freeh given Soufan this information, the FBI Cole bombing investigators could have been able to prevent the attacks on 9/11, and save the lives of the 3000 people killed in this attack.

It is clear I have established the accuracy of my prior post.