From prior post:
"That said, it seems like a stretch to think some CIA officials let 9/11 go forward because they were worried about obstruction of justice charges for the attacks on the Cole or African embassies."
IMHO
As I said before it was clear from my analysis that the CIA had forbidden Tom Wilshire, former deputy chief of the Bin Laden unit from turning over the information on the Kuala Lumpur al Qaeda planning meeting to the FBI criminal investigators on the Cole bombing and that was the principle reason this information was withheld from the FBI.
But we now know that Wilshire and Corsi used every possible means at their disposal to shut down FBI Agent Steve Bongardt's investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi when these al Qaeda terrorists were discovered inside of the US, knowing that this would mean that no one would find them quickly. Since both Wilshire and Corsi as well of 50-60 people at the CIA including the entire CIA hierarchy knew about the huge al Qaeda attack about to take place inside of the US, it is impossible to believe that they also did not know by shutting down Bongardt's investigation thousands of Americans were going to die as a direct result of their actions.
It was hard for me to image that because of this restriction on passing this information to the FBI criminal investigators, that they would let thousands of Americans perish in these attacks. So I was trying to find an additional motivation for why they shut this investigation down. It is clear Corsi and Wilshire and many other people at the CIA and FBI HQ knew they all would end up in prison for years if Bongardt continued with his investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi.
According to the CIA IG report 50-60 people at the CIA alone were aware of Mihdhar and Hazmi, knew they were inside of the US, and many of these knew these two terrorists were actually inside of the US in order to take part in a horrific terrorist attack that would kill thousands of Americans. And yet they all kept silent and intentionally allowed this huge attack to take place. The CIA IG's own report listed many of the people who took part in this criminal conspiracy to hide information from the FBI criminal investigators, as did the DOJ IG report.
From these reports, it was possible to identify most of the people who knew about Mihdhar and Hazmi, since they were named in these reports. Since almost all of these people withheld this information from FBI Agent Bongardt and his team, or blocked other investigations of al Qaeda terrorists inside of the US with no real explanation of why they did this, it would appear that this criminal conspiracy ultimately included; the CIA Bin Laden unit, with Clark Shannon, and Tom Wilshire, the Yemen CIA station, the Thailand CIA station, the handler for the joint FBI/CIA source, virtually the entire hierarchy of the CIA including Richard B, head of the Bin Laden unit, Cofer Black head of the CIA CTC section, John Gannon, CIA Operations, and George Tenet Director of the CIA, and groups at FBI HQ including the Bin Laden unit with FBI IOS Agent Dina Corsi, her boss Rod Middleton, the RFU with Michael Maltbie and David Frasca, and even the Director of the FBI, Louis Freeh. It is impossible to believe that Michael Rolince, head of the ITOS unit, was not also involved since both the RFU and UBL units were in his ITOS section and reported directly to him.
Furthermore since Wilshire had been moved over in mid-May 2001 to be liaison to Rolince, Rolince had to know Wilshire was a CIA spy being planted into the single FBI organization that controlled all FBI criminal investigations in the world. Since Wilshire was so high up in the CIA hierarchy, this move had to have been initiated by George Tenet and Cofer Black, and agreed to by Louis Freeh and Michael Rolince. Since Freeh and Rolince knew Wilshire was a spy coming into the FBI who might cause massive damage to FBI criminal investigations, and could do nothing to stop this move, the CIA must have had some horrific information to have forced Freeh and Rolince to agree to this. It is also clear that Rolince in effect forced Corsi to work for Wilshire, as he carried out his criminal activities at the FBI to keep information hidden from FBI criminal investigators.
Rolince had to know when Wilshire set up the meeting in New York with the FBI Cole investigators on June 11, 2001, right after being moved to the FBI, that he was doing this only to make sure that the information the CIA had from the Kuala Lumpur meeting had never been uncovered by the Cole bombing investigators.
We now know from the DOJ IG report that both Wilshire and Corsi were aware well before this June 11, 2001 meeting with the FBI Cole bombing investigators, that Khalid Bin Attash had been at the Kuala Lumpur meeting planning the Cole bombing with Mihdhar and Hazmi. It is also clear after August 22, 2001 that both Wilshire and Corsi knew and even participated in criminal actions to continuing to hide this photograph of Attash taken at that Kuala Lumpur meeting from FBI Agent Steve Bongardt, see page 302 DOG IG report.
Since both Corsi and Wilshire had criminally obstructed this investigation of the Cole bombing numerous times, they knew if Bongardt continued with any investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi, and then obtained the photographs of Mihdhar and Hazmi along with the photograph of Bin Attash taken at Kuala Lumpur planning the Cole bombing, Bongardt would have immediately known that the June 11, 2001 meeting set up in New York City had been a CIA sting on the FBI and his team.
At this meeting, Bongardt had been shown three photos of Mihdhar by FBI HQ Agent Dina Corsi, one that even included Hazmi, taken at the Kuala Lumpur al Qaeda planning meeting. Bongardt and his team was then asked by CIA officer Clark Shannon, if they could recognize anyone in these photos. When Bongardt said he could not and asked; “Who are these people in these photographs and what do they have to do with the Cole bombing?”, neither Corsi or Shannon would give him any answers other to say the wall did not allow this information to be given to him.
But both Shannon and Corsi knew when Bongardt asked this question that the people in these photographs, Mihdhar and Hazmi, had been at the Kuala Lumpur meeting with Walid Bin Attash actually planning the Cole bombing and yet both withheld this information from FBI Agent Steve Bongardt and his team, the very FBI agents who were assigned to investigate this horrific crime.
Since this meeting had actually been set up by CIA officer Tom Wilshire, it is clear Wilshire forbid both Shannon and Corsi from giving this information to the FBI Cole investigators. This was then part of a massive crime to hide this meeting and the names of the people who were at this meeting planning the Cole bombing.
The information on the US government web site for the Moussaoui trial,
http://www.vaed.uscourts.gov/notablecases/moussaoui/exhibits/, the Substitution for the Testimony of John, aka Tom Wilshire, also shows:
That Wilshire knew Khalid al-Mihdhar and by association Nawaf al-Hazmi were going to take part in the next big al Qaeda operation in July 2001, see his email on July 23, 2001, back to his CIA CTC managers. In his earlier email on July 5, 2001 he had already indicated that the people at the Kuala Lumpur meeting were connected to the massive warnings of a huge al Qaeda attack that the CIA and FBI HQ had been receiving since April 2001, see the DOJ IG report.
That Wilshire and FBI IOS HQ Agent Dina Corsi, at the FBI Bin Laden unit, were told on August 22, 2001, that both Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the USA. They knew immediately that these terrorists were inside of the US preparing to take part in this massive al Qaeda attack the CIA and others at the FBI Bin Laden unit were already clearly aware of.
That Wilshire had actually twice requested permission from his CTC managers, in July 2001, to send the information on the Kuala Lumpur meetings and the people who were there, to the FBI Cole bombing investigators, but was denied both times. His managers would have been Richard B, Chief of the Bin Laden unit, Cofer Black head the CIA CTC unit and his boss, George Tenet, Director of the CIA. This is the information that would have prevented that attacks on 9/11 and the very group at the FBI that had the resources to actually have prevented these attacks.
Notice that while it is clear that Wilshire and Corsi were trying to stay out of prison, I did not come to any conclusions on why Wilshire's managers forbid him from giving this information to the FBI criminal investigators on the Cole bombing. Their reasons are a whole different issue, and I did not find any documentation on their motives for doing this.
We do know however that at the exact same time Tenet and Black had forbidden Wilshire two times from giving the information on the Kuala Lumpur al Qaeda planning meeting to the FBI criminal investigators, they were having an urgent meeting in the White House with Rice and Clark, on July 10, 2001, describing a huge al Qaeda attack just about to take place inside of the US that would kill thousands of Americans.
We also know from Tenet's testimony to the 9/11 Commission on April 14, 2004 that Tenet was hiding his meetings in August 2001 with the President of the United States from the American public. At this hearing Tim Roemer asked the question: "If you, (George Tenet), knew that the al Qaeda terrorists were about to mount a huge attack inside of the US that would kill thousands of Americans why did he not tell the President about this in August?"
Tenet answered that he was in Washington DC and the President was in Crawford Texas, and that is why he had not told the President.
Then Roemer asked why did he not pick up the telephone and call the President and give him this horrific information. After all, if the Director of the CIA had information on an al Qaeda attack inside of the US that would kill thousands of Americans, it would only seem logical that he would contact George Bush, the President at his earliest opportunity, and let him also know right away about this horrific terrorist attack, in order to save all of these people from being killed in these attacks. This only seems logical!
If there were ever a real ticking time bomb scenario, this had to be it.
But Tenet said he had not called the President in August to give him this information, and could not go beyond this as an explanation. He simply could offer up no possible explanation at all on why he had not called the President of the United States and given him this information, and main stream media seemed unusually uncurious about any of this.
But Bill Harlow, the CIA spokesman came out after Tenet’s testimony and said Tenet had just misspoken numerous times, which is CIA speak for lied. He said that Tenet had flown down to Crawford on August 17, and has seen the President in Washington on August 31, and six more times in September before the attacks on 9/11.
We now also know Tenet had also flown down to Crawford on August 24, 2001 and had a meeting with the President on August 25, 2001. This is after Tenet learned on August 23, that Moussaoui had been arrested after the FBI thought he was a terrorist learning to fly a 747, and also after he learned on August 23 that Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US in order to take part in a massive al Qaeda attack that would kill thousands of Americans.
So what did George Tenet Director of the CIA, who had all of this horrific information tell the President of the United States of America at these meetings. It seems that after 7 1/2 year that we still do not know. But we know he was willing to lie to all of the American people and to the 9/11 Commission, committing a major crime of perjury, in order to hide these meetings with the President. But isn’t this what psychologists call "consciousness of guilt", something one does only if they have committed a crime!
It is now clear that after August 22, 2001 both Wilshire and Corsi participated in several criminal actions to shut down FBI Agent Steve Bongardt's investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi, even beyond not giving Bongardt the information that Bin Attash had been at the Kuala Lumpur meeting with Mihdhar and Hazmi actually planning the Cole bombing. In fact Bongardt only found out about this fact that both Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US when FBI supervisor at the New York office, John Liguori, accidentally send Corsi's EC to him.
In DE #681, also found on the Moussaoui court official web site, email on August 29, 2001, from Dina Corsi to John Liguori (the FBI manager at the New York FBI field office who had directed Corsi's EC to Bongardt), Dina Corsi says:
”There is material in the EC from which has not been approved and which is not cleared for criminal investigators (meaning the FBI Cole bombing investigators on the Cole bombing). Steve(this is Steve Bongardt) and Rod, (this is Rod Middleton, her boss) and I spoke with him and tried to explain why this case had to stay on the intel side of the house.”
Unfortunately DE #448, on the same web site, is the actual NSA release that Dina Corsi received from the NSA, and shows that this release had already been approved on August 27, 2001, and sent to Corsi on August 28, 2001. This release clearly said that the NSA information on the Kuala Lumpur meeting and the names Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi who were attending this important al Qaeda planning meeting, was cleared by the NSA to be sent to the FBI criminal investigators on the Cole bombing in New York. When Corsi tells Bongardt that this information had not yet been approved and is not cleared for criminal investigators, it is clear she is lying in a desperate attempt to shut down Bongardt's investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi.
OOPS!
When Bongardt asked Corsi to get a ruling from the NSLU, to see if he could take part in the investigation of Mihdhar, since he knew Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US to take part in a horrific al Qaeda attack that would kill many Americans, Corsi told him on August 29, 2001 after she consulted NSLU attorneys, that the NSLU had ruled he could not be part of any investigation and search for Mihdhar. Since Bongardt could not see any connection to any FISA warrant when the NSA had obtained this information, he was sure that the NSA and NSLU would readily approve this information going to him and his team.
And FBI Agent Bongardt was right. But this information never got to him! From page 538, footnote 81 in the 9/11 Commission’s own report we learn that Corsi had fabricated Attorney Sherry Sabol’s ruling, and that Sabol had ruled that Bongardt could be part of any investigation of Mihdhar since the NSA information was not connected to any FISA warrant.
Yet another OOPS!
The 9/11 Commission stated as one of their moist important conclusions that:
"We could not understand why the CIA had never connected Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi to the warnings of a massive al Qaeda attack the CIA and FBI HQ were both aware of".
But this email from Wilshire on July 23, 2001 and July 5, 2001 would have rendered this conclusion inaccurate. The testimony of Corsi shows that FBI HQ intentionally shut down the investigation of Bongardt even when they knew this would block the only FBI criminal investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi that could have prevented the upcoming al Qaeda attacks that took place on 9/11, attacks both the CIA and FBI HQ knew would result in the deaths of thousands of Americans.
Had this information been brought out at the 9/11 Commission hearings, it would have caused a big stink when the American people found out the our own intelligence agencies had intentionally allowed the attacks on 9/11 to take place.
The conclusion that the 9/11 Commission reached that the CIA and FBI were not criminally involved in allowing the attacks on 9/11 was a conclusion the 9/11 Commission was chartered to make since their primary job was to cover up the criminal actions at both the CIA and FBI HQ and prove to the American people that our intelligence agencies could never have done such a thing. It was therefore necessary that this evidence be withheld until long after the 9/11 Commission had reached their final conclusions.
Since the 9/11 Commission had subpoena power and had access to all of the DOJ IG reports that now make up the “Substitution of John” and all of the other interviews, emails and other evidence items that are now part of the record of the Moussaoui trial, it is clear that the 9/11 Commission report reached conclusions that were contrary to the very evidence they were already aware of. One might says this renders the entire effort of the 9/11 Commission a complete fraud.
The web site www.eventson911.com has a more complete summary of all of this information!