Reply #12: Cofer Black, as much as anyone at CIA, is responsible for 9/11

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http://www.williambowles.info/911/cia_perjury.html
Perjury by CIA Counterterrorism Center Director -
CIA Blocked Hijacker Memo to FBI

10/6/05
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June 10, 2005. The LA Times reports that in early 2000, the CIA intentionally withheld a memo from the FBI that reported the entry of key 9/11 hijackers into the US. See:

www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-
terror10jun10,0,510936,print.story?coll=la-home-headlines

In his testimony before the Joint Congressional Intelligence Committee in September 2002, Cofer Black, former head of the CIA Counter-Terrorism Center (CTC) stated under oath that his office had inadvertently neglected to inform the FBI when it became known in early 2000 that Flight 77 hijacker, Nawaf al-Midhar, had entered the U.S. However, it was revealed yesterday that a memo informing the FBI had actually been drafted at CTC, but an order was issued blocking transmission of that information.

In this sworn testimony, Black stated that the CTC had simply missed the importance of reports that known al-Qaeda terrorists had entered the US after attending an al-Qaeda planning summit. According to Black — who, after 9/11, was promoted by President Bush to head State Department Counterterrorism — the CIA Center failed to pass this information on to the FBI in early 2000 because staff were distracted and overworked. For more information see:

www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/03/01_crimes.html

www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/09/p/26_failed.html

www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0310/S00257.htm

However, as we learned yesterday, Black’s testimony to Congress was a material misrepresentation of what is the most important question that Congress had for the CIA. Why wasn’t the FBI informed in a timely way of this obviously critical development in tracking known al-Qaeda terrorists?

As ranking officer at CTC, Cofer Black was in a position to know about the Center’s memo that had been prepared for transmittal to the FBI at the time. He was also clearly in the chain of command that would decide to block the memo’s transmission to the FBI. Nonetheless, Black told Congressional investigators something quite different, and his testimony under oath before the Joint Committee was patently false, in light of the facts that were released yesterday

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