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2019-01-28 Home Front: WoT

The Illegal CIA Operation That Brought Us 9/11

[Truthdig] In the latest installment of "Scheer Intelligence," the journalists tell Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer how an interview with Richard Clarke, the counterterror adviser to Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, led them to a jaw-dropping revelation regarding two hijackers involved in the infamous attacks. As it turns out, Khalid Muhammad Abdallah al-Mihdhar

...who is in our archives in abbreviated form as Khalid al-Midhar

and Nawaf al-Hazmi, two men linked to al-Qaida, were staying at an FBI informant’s home in San Diego in 2000, and they were being tracked by the National Security Agency.

Despite knowledge of the men’s ties to the terrorist organization responsible for 9/11, neither was investigated by the FBI. Clarke and others believe that this may have had to do with a CIA attempt to turn the two men into agency informants.

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Khalid al-Midhar
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Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-28 01:27|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 "jaw-dropping revelation"....? "Recruitment" gone bad? I thought it was an 'intelligence sharing' failure, 'stove piping' and so forth.

Khalid Muhammad Abdallah al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi..'on the FBI's radar' were they ?

Not one person in the Intelligence Community or Law Enforcement was ever held accountable or fired. Yes, it was all a big intelligence sharing fuc*k-up. We'll do better next time.

Perhaps this is something the Mueller investigation may wish to look into. Oh wait !

Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-28 01:43|| 2019-01-28 01:43|| Front Page Top

#2 They all seem to be known wolves...

Maybe stopping terrorism isn't in the establishments interests, but 9/11 went a bit OTT even for them.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-01-28 05:53|| 2019-01-28 05:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Never invoke malice when sheer incompetence is an adequate explanation.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-01-28 06:12|| 2019-01-28 06:12|| Front Page Top

#4 ...embrace the power of 'and'

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-01-28 07:08|| 2019-01-28 07:08|| Front Page Top

#5 John Solomon 2002 story. FBI agent warned of flying school fears. Filipino authorities warned as early as 1995 that mid-Eastern pilots were training in U.S. flying schools for airliner takedowns.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-01-28 10:06|| 2019-01-28 10:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Ref #5: One would have to be terribly naive to believe the intelligence community had NO knowledge of these vermin.

Please add the Tsarnaev bros, MAJ Nadal Hasan, and DNC computer 'fix it' man, Paki Woodbridge, VA resident Imran Awan (and clan) to the list.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-28 10:59|| 2019-01-28 10:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Ask Jamie Gorelick. She helped put in place walls between intel and law enforcement.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2019-01-28 16:11|| 2019-01-28 16:11|| Front Page Top

#8 In history one problems that empires have is "Too Big To Fail" Disease. The so-called elites starting using foreign actors, or foolishly ignore the machinations of same, because they are convinced that "..they can't hurt us!"

Posted by magpie 2019-01-28 16:51|| 2019-01-28 16:51|| Front Page Top

#9 OR had Clinton Weaponized the FBI alot earlier than we realized

Posted by 746 2019-01-28 19:23|| 2019-01-28 19:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Another ball dropped by GW's administration who had the same info in 2000.

Posted by Victor Emmanuel Trotsky3550 2019-01-28 23:47|| 2019-01-28 23:47|| Front Page Top

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