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Sept. 11 Panel Wasnít Told of Meeting, Members Say |
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New York Times
Phillip Shenon
October 2, 2006 |
Members of the Sept. 11 commission said Sunday they were alarmed that they were told nothing about a July 2001 White House meeting at which George J. Tenet, then director of central intelligence, is reported to have warned Condoleezza Rice, then national security adviser, about an imminent attack by Al Qaeda and failed to persuade her to take action. |
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The Covered Up Meeting |
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Washington Post
Dan Froomkin
October 2, 2006 |
If the omniscient narrator of Woodward's book is to be believed, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice waved off warnings that should by any reasonable standard have put the government on high alert for an al-Qaeda attack.
And in what looks like a potential administration cover-up, Rice and the other participants in that meeting apparently never mentioned it to anyone, including investigators for the 9/11 Commission. |
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Worried CIA Officers Buy Legal Insurance |
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Washington Post
R. Jeffrey Smith
September 11, 2006 |
CIA counterterrorism officers have signed up in growing numbers for a government-reimbursed, private insurance plan that would pay their civil judgments and legal expenses if they are sued or charged with criminal wrongdoing, according to current and former intelligence officials and others with knowledge of the program.
The new enrollments reflect heightened anxiety at the CIA that officers may be vulnerable to accusations they were involved in abuse, torture, human rights violations and other misconduct, including wrongdoing related to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. They worry that they will not have Justice Department representation in court or congressional inquiries, the officials said. |
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With Only Reputations at Stake, Talk on C.I.A. Report Turns to How Much to Publish |
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New York Times
Scott Shane
August 27, 2005 |
...leaders of the families of those who died in the attacks repeated their demand for individual accountability, which is what prompted Congress to ask John L. Helgerson, the C.I.A. inspector general, to begin his investigation nearly three years ago. On Thursday, the September 11 Advocates group demanded the immediate declassification and release of Mr. Helgerson's report, whose harsh conclusions have been disclosed only in limited leaks. |
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'Able Danger' Stopped From Informing FBI |
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AP
AP staff
August 17, 2005 |
An Army intelligence officer said Wednesday he does not believe the 9/11 commission pressed hard enough for documentation of claims that military intelligence found a U.S.-based terrorist cell that included Mohamed Atta, who turned out to be the leader of the Sept. 11 attacks, prior to the terrorist strikes. |
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9/11 Panel Seeks Inquiry on New Atta Report |
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New York Times
Philip Shenon & Douglas Jehl
August 10, 2005 |
Members of the independent commission that investigated the Sept. 11 terror attacks called on Congress to determine whether the Pentagon withheld intelligence information showing that a secret American military unit had identified Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers as potential threats more than a year before the attacks. The former commission members said the information, if true, could rewrite an important chapter of the history of the intelligence failures before Sept. 11, 2001. |
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Four in 9/11 Plot Are Called Tied to Qaeda in '00 |
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New York Times
Douglas Jehl
August 9, 2005 |
Washington - More than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, a small,
highly classified military intelligence unit identified Mohammed Atta and three
other future hijackers as likely members of a cell of Al Qaeda operating in
the United States, according to a former defense intelligence official and a
Republican member of Congress. |
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Did DoD lawyers blow the chance to nab Atta? |
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Government Security News
Jacob Goodwin
August 1, 2005 |
"We were directed to take those 3M yellow stickers and place them over the faces of Atta and the other terrorists and pretend they didnÌt exist."
In September 2000, one year before the Al Qaeda attacks of 9/11, a U.S. Army military intelligence program, known as ÏAble Danger,Ó identified a terrorist cell based in Brooklyn, NY, one of whose members was 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta, and recommended to their military superiors that the FBI be called in to Ïtake out that cell,Ó according to Rep. Curt Weldon, a longtime Republican congressman from Pennsylvania who is currently vice chairman of both the House Homeland Security and House Armed Services Committees. |
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What We Don't Know About 9/11 Hurts Us |
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LA Times
Robert Scheer
February 15, 2005 |
Would George W. Bush have been reelected president if the public understood how much responsibility his administration bears for allowing the 9/11 attacks to succeed?
The answer is unknowable and, at this date, moot. Yet it was appalling to learn last week that the White House suppressed until after the election a damning report that exposes the administration as woefully incompetent if not criminally negligent. |
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This Made Ashcroft Gag: Translator keeps blowing 9-11 whistle on FBI; U.S. Keeps shutting her up |
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Village Voice
James Ridgeway
May 24, 2004 |
Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa summarized the Edmonds case in questioning FBI director Robert Mueller: "I would also like to, on a second point, figure out why the FBI is going back in time and classifying some pretty basic information that's already in the public sector in regard to classification of information that we have received in Congress from a whistle-blower, Sibel Edmonds. |
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