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.