Panel: FBI Weak on Terror Threat Response

[Florida_Geek]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Sept-11-Commission.html

anel: FBI Weak on Terror Threat Response
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: April 13, 2004


Filed at 10:13 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI failed miserably over several years to reorganize and respond to a steadily growing threat of terrorism, and Attorney General John Ashcroft rejected an appeal from the agency for more funding on the day before al-Qaida struck, the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks said Tuesday.


..more at AP

[maddezmom]

1. the day before

wouldn't have helped. :( But it proves Asscroft hadn't a clue to threat that AQ posed to the US. Hope they rake him over the coals today and show him for the insuffering incompentent that he is as AG.

[tjwash]

2. This also in on the subject...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/13/911.commission/index.html">Former FBI Director Louis Freeh today told the panel investigating the 9/11 attacks that because the United States had not declared war against Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda

[annak110]

3. Why do you suppose they aren't

asking the questions surrounding the event itself? If they put "hijacked planes flying toward New York for over an hour" and "the world trade center has been attacked before" together with the memos that might start them on a productive line of questioning. They could also find out how a plane that supposedly crashed could possibly have spread debris eight miles on crashing.

After all, they're never going to find "intelligence" in Washington.

[JPZenger]

4. Remember Refusal of Search Warrant of Terrorist Before 9-11

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/29/lt.13.html

"in Minneapolis, Zacarias Moussaoui was arrested on immigration charges after a flight school instructor reports his suspicions. Moussaoui wanted training on the Boeing flight simulator.

August 28: The FBI rejects the request of the Minneapolis field office for a Moussaoui search warrant that would have included his laptop computer. According to the recent and now famous memo from Colleen Rowley of the Minneapolis office, that rejection was seen as part of a larger effort by the FBI bureaucracy to thwart the Moussaoui investigation."

After September 11th, the computer was examined and found to have important clues about the 9-11 attacks - which could have been uncovered 2 weeks earlier. This refusal by the FBI was part of a policy by John Ashcroft against intrusive investigations.