FBI Squelched Investigation of Post-9/11 Meeting Between White Supremacist and Islamic Extremists

[G_j]

http://www.alternet.org/rights/141161/why_the_fbi_squelched_an_investigation_of_a_post-9_11_meeting_between_white_supremacist_and_islamic_extremists/

Why the FBI Squelched an Investigation of a Post-9/11 Meeting Between White Supremacist and Islamic Extremists
By Mark Levine, AlterNet. Posted July 9, 2009.

Shock: It seems the FBI cares more about protecting its illegal surveillance methods than following leads to stop terrorism.


The recent shooting at the Holocaust Museum serves as a stark reminder to us all that murderous racial and religious hatred still endures in America. One would expect the FBI to infiltrate and prosecute individuals and organizations that threaten domestic terrorist acts. But as this investigative report details, the large FBI bureaucracy, from the bottom to the very top, may well be more concerned with covering up its agents' own illegal misconduct that it is with actually protecting Americans from terrorist attack.

If the leader of the White Supremacist Organization was uncomfortable meeting the brown-skinned supporter of the Islamic terrorist group in Florida, he tried not to show it. After all, the two men had a common agenda, and in the up-coming War Against the Jews, the Islamic Extremist had agreed, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." It was January 2002 -- a mere four months after 9-11 -- and both men were intent on following up on that deadly terrorist attack with a "summit meeting" to discuss how their respective organizations could cement an alliance to cause more death and destruction in the United States and around the world.

It was the first meeting between the men. To break the ice, the White Supremacist mentioned his admiration for Adolf Hitler. The Islamic Extremist readily agreed that he shared that admiration and looked forward to joining with the White Supremacist in the goal of fomenting civil war in the USA. They both approved of suicide bombings. And they discussed how the White Supremacist Organization could launder money and provide financial assistance to the Islamic Terrorist Organization, which had already received arms shipments from Iran.

Perhaps, the Islamic Extremist suggested, they could begin by killing journalists that support the State of Israel. He was warming up quickly to the White Supremacist, untroubled by the latter's conviction that inferior brown-skinned people were destined to serve the Master White Race. "Anyone willing to shoot a Jew is a friend", the Islamic Extremist told the White Supremacist.

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[annabanana]

1. This is hugely important!

from the article:

It's an astonishing irony. The Senate Judiciary Committee and Former FBI Agent German, now working for the American Civil Liberties Union, are practically begging the FBI to undertake legal surveillance under a warrant of known domestic and foreign terrorist organizations cooperating together to commit terrorist acts. But the Justice Department, which demanded immunity from Congress for its illegal warrantless wiretapping of millions of Americans who have committed no crime and have never discussed murdering or bombing anyone, refuses to investigate actual terrorists discussing actual crimes on American soil. In this respect, the Obama Justice Department, with Director Robert Mueller still at the helm of the FBI, is no different than the Bush Justice Department, still preferring the easy illegal monitoring of innocent American citizens over the legal wiretapping of murderous, plotting terrorists.


As of today, a copy of the fated transcript of the summit meeting between the Islamic Extremist and the White Supremacist still sits in a locked safe in Senator Grassley's office. The public is forbidden from seeing any part of a transcript of a conversation that the FBI claims posed no danger and warranted no investigation. As of today, not a single agent in the FBI has been disciplined for misconduct in this case: none for lying to investigators, none for falsifying documents, none for failing to investigate the incipient foreign/domestic Islamic Extremist/White Supremacist Alliance, and certainly none for the regular practice of covering up illegal wiretapping.


Only one agent in the FBI has been punished in this whole sordid matter: straight-arrow Mike German, who dared to insist the FBI follow the law. (German now works for the ACLU and is promoting his book Thinking Like a Terrorist.) German has learned the hard way that the FBI and the Mafia actually have a lot in common. In both organizations, the greatest transgression an operative can do is to insist his boss follow the law.

[G_j]

3. just as we hear the CIA lied to Congress

but no surprise there..

[crickets]

5. Wow. Speechless.

[Echo In Light]

2. Phony "war."

[annabanana]

4. kickers. . n/t

[G_j]

6. sorta surprised

this hasn't had more interest,
:shrug:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

7. Who the heck is Mark Levine?

And why isn't this article sourced?

[G_j]

8. ==

Mark Levine, a former Congressional attorney serving a high-ranking Representative on the Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees,

not sure about the sourcing, though I tend to trust Alternet.

[annabanana]

9. kicking for more eyes. . n/t

[G_j]

10. again..

[Wednesdays]

11. K&R

:kick:

[troubledamerican]

12. Bush squelched Congress 9/11 inquiry into Boston FBI Branch

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1214-01.htm

[G_j]

13. ah yes,

very interesting

thanks

[old mark]

14. Another link - he is a radio talk guy as well:

www.radioinsidescoop.com/


mark

[leveymg]

15. Some of this is quite accurate, about Mike German, but some of it definitely is not

That was something akin to an FBI sting operation, not a real foreign terrorist plot involving Iran. There were a number of attacks by white supremacists, and one by an Islamicist extremist, on Jewish targets at about that time:

June 18, 1999: White supremacist brothers Matthew and Tyler Williams set fire to three synagogues in Sacramento, Calif., causing more than $1 million in damage.
July 2-4, 1999: White supremacist Benjamin Nathaniel Smith went on a three-day shooting spree -- targeting black, Jewish and Asian people -- that started in Chicago and ended in Bloomington, Ind. Smith killed two people and injured nine before killing himself during a police pursuit.
Aug. 10, 1999: Buford O'Neal Furrow Jr. opened fire in a Jewish day care center in Los Angeles, wounding five people. He later killed a Filipino-American postal worker.
Jan. 8, 2002: Michael Edward Smith was arrested after pointing an AR-15 at a synagogue in Nashville, Tenn. Following a high-speed police chase, a search of Smith's house and other locations uncovered a cache of weapons, an anti-tank rocket, explosives and white supremacist literature.
July 4, 2002: Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, an Egyptian national who was in the United States on a green card, opened fire at the El-Al Israel Airlines ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport, killing two people and wounding four. Airline security officers shot and killed him at the scene.

The reference to Iran, however, is misleading, as the connection is very indirect. Iran supports Hezbollah and some Palestinian groups, and some individuals with ties to those groups have carried out random acts of terrrorism inside the U.S. But, that's a very different thing from implying that Iran was arming terrorists to carry out attacks inside the U.S. in 2002.

[rasputin1952]

16. How incredibly pathetic...

"Anyone willing to shoot a Jew is a friend"...

Domestic terrorism is a far greater threat than anything from foreign aspects. The # of nuts and their ideology is something this country really needs to take on. The average good citizen is harassed incessantly, yet the maniacs run free...:wtf:

[G_j]

17. ==

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