Over sensitivity to civil liberties and an arrogant anti authoritarian political bias was the basis for pressures placed upon U.S. government managers that created an inability of these government managers to face investigations needed against racial minorities. Not a recent problem, these shrill voices which have, for decades, voiced diatribes, lawsuits and public media scorn on anyone who dared look at criminal or terrorist information dealing with racial minorities, both in immigration and law enforcement. These liberal falsehoods have equated any investigation of minorities to racial prejudice and have utterly destroyed immigration and law enforcement capabilities in America.
As a result, political correctness and over sensitivity to racial prejudice produced rules of conduct in the FBI and Department of Justice which, contrary to constitutional or statute law, prohibited the FBI and Department of Justice to support FBI field agents in conducting the investigation that would have prevented the 9/11 attacks.
After months of cover-up, it is now clear that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the top criminal investigative agency who essentially had taken away from the CIA the anti terrorist role and the Department of Justice, responsible for the legal processes and "rules of engagement" used by the FBI, have not only criminally shirked their duty, but have done so for a reason that should make every American scream.
As the Colleen Rowley memo1 has clearly shown and FBI Director Stephen S. Mueller has admitted, FBI headquarters bureaucracy has not allowed agents in the field to properly conduct proactive investigations of terrorists by using the same tools available not only to local law enforcement agencies, but any citizen or journalist today.
The reason for this appalling state of affairs, an administrative policy put into place by the Department of Justice some 30 years ago.
In typical revisionist fashion, liberal voices propose the rules were put into effect because the FBI had abused its powers as a result of anti-war surveillance of the 1960s. While illegal wire-tapping occurred, other alleged abuses did not. Statutes added new regulation to shore up the review process for wiretaps -- the correct method for dealing with a serious civil liberties abuse. Job done. And although there is no constitutional or statute prohibiting the FBI from conducting surveillance or investigations of American citizens -- to the contrary that IS the mission of the FBI as set out by statute -- the Department of Justice in a disgusting case of "knuckling under" to over zealous liberal complaints which have no basis in law, changed the rules for FBI practices in order to reduce the appearance of impropriety. These rules did not allow the FBI to investigate U.S. citizens unless an outside agency or person brings to the attention of the FBI reasons for investigating. Furthermore, the information brought to the FBI was required to satisfy probable cause for further investigation, a requirement written no where in case law nor the Constitution and Bill or Rights.
Unfortunately, probable cause statutes are focused on crimes that have already been committed and are used to limit search and seizure and were NOT intended to inhibit investigation. The goal, to reduce or eliminate alleged spying on particular U.S. citizens, in classic overkill, prevented the FBI from looking at ANY citizen or non citizen.
As a result of political correctness and careerism as both Colleen Rowley 1 (Minnesota FBI Office Legal Counsel) and FBI Agent Robert Wright 2 (FBI Special Agent, Vulgar Betrayal investigation, Chicago FBI Office) have confirmed, FBI Headquarters has shown extreme cowardice for decades in allowing liberal rules of conduct to mandate FBI behavior, which also clearly subvert the statutes outlining the FBI duties and responsibilities. In the Rowley case, since a minority was the target of the investigation, HQ staff chose to play it safe rather than allow a search warrant to be issued. In fact, the HQ staff rewrote the Minnesota Office's requests and in the process made it nearly impossible for anyone reviewing the requests to grant them, leaving out important evidence and factors that could have made a huge difference in determining the case for the warrants. Moreover, later further modifications demonstrated a cowardly "knuckling under" to unlawful requests to soften legal investigative processes when a racial minority was concerned. In addition the case of the FBI's refusal, despite complaints from agents and Department of Justice U.S. Attorneys, to remove a Muslim agent who refused a legal request to record other Muslims shows an appalling lack of leadership and oversensitivity that defies common sense.
Combined with the trashing of enforcement in the INS, this liberalization created the atmosphere that frankly, made it easy for terrorists to attack us on 9/11.
Let's be clear. The FBI and Department of Justice changed the rules governing investigation to eliminate procedures for detecting criminal activity including terrorism, in direct conflict with both the constitution and statutes. The FBI and the Department of Justice have apparently themselves broken the laws governing the duties and responsibilities of the FBI and the Department of Justice.
Furthermore, later interpretation of these administrative rules, and in a time where political correctness has made bureaucrats within both the Department of Justice and the FBI over-sensitive to racial profiling, have allowed liberal sensitivities to not only hamper investigations, but in fact have prohibited key elements from being investigated. These actions directly prevented the FBI from making the Vulgar Betrayal investigation (an investigation of Arab money laundering that led to Osama Bin Laden), Minnesota and Phoenix investigations the 20th hijacker investigation and the Middle Eastern terrorists in U.S. flight school investigation) from being pulled together into a major terrorist investigation which would have easily prevented the 9/11 attacks. Not only were all the elements in hand by the time the Phoenix and Minnesota cases were being investigated, but if the Vulgar Betrayal investigation had been allowed to proceed as a major investigation, it would have created the means for communication of all other FBI related matters -- i.e. the Minnesota and Phoenix investigations -- to be seen by those manning that major investigation. The links to the 19 hijackers would clearly have been uncovered through both the funding aspect of Vulgar Betrayal investigation as well as the flight school training leads of the Phoenix investigation. Is is also extremely probable that the Zacharius Moussaoui investigation would also have led, if not thwarted by FBI headquarters, to one or more of the 9/11 terrorists.
Early FBI claims that the terrorists had participated in cells that did not know each other has been proved false by films showing member from the different so called cells traveling together on a number of different flights as they apparently cased the 9/11 flight paths. Remarkably, these flight walk-thrus were noticed by flight crew and passengers and reported well before 9/11, yet FBI's not having a major investigation running meant there was no one to connect these activities to the terrorist investigation.
Early FBI claims that there was no way anyone could have predicted or prevented the attacks have also been proven wrong. Each of the three cases cited so far would have led to the hijackers themselves and if nothing else, detaining them for questioning would have eliminated the threat on 9/11 and subsequent investigation would have produced the necessary evidence of the plot and led to conviction. The claim would be more accurate had it said the "FBI's management, structure and illegal administrative rules would not allow prediction or prevention of the attacks."
However, the FBI administrative rules, decades of careerism and political correctness modified the case from a threat to the American public, to a threat to the careers and reputation of members of the FBI headquarters staff. The over sensitivity to racial persecution in these agencies, created by decades of liberal abuse is therefore responsible for the murder of thousands of U.S. citizens in New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland on 9/11. The appalling lack of criminal prosecution for this derelict of duty is in of itself criminal behavior.
FBI Director Mueller, has continued to attempt to hide from view many of the internal complaints that point out these kinds of problems despite claiming to want to hear and act on this complaints. Rather than "come clean" and expose the FBI's true failings so that they can be repaired, he has purposely covered up the FBI failings. Recent changes announced by the FBI are careful to avoid the blunt language needed to satisfy the American People that political correctness and the creation of rules that are in direct conflict with constitutional law and statutes will no longer be acceptable. In fact, the presumption that the FBI will or can attempt to "change itself" is ludicrous. For this reason, Director Mueller no longer has the faith and trust of the American People and should be removed from office.
On June 2, 2002, Newsweek reporters Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman published a story for the June 10 issue of the magazine that details CIA identification and tracking of two of the 9/11 terrorists as they moved from Kuala Lumper into the United States. The CIA, in typical insular fashion, notified no one. Not the INS and not the FBI. One of those being tracked, Khalid Almihdhar was subsequently issued a new visa when his old one expired! The CIA hadn't even let the State Department know the man was a terrrorist! Newsweek reports "...during the year and nine months after the CIA identified them as terrorists, Alhazmi and Almihdhar lived openly in the United States, using their real names, obtaining driver's licenses, opening bank accounts and enrolling in flight schools." Later in the Newsweek report, we find that the two being tracked met with at least five of the other hijacker, providing a complete path to the hijacker's conspiracy that an fool could have followed. For this reason, a communication system between the CIA and all pertinent agencies must be put in place immediately, with reporting requirements to the House and Senate Intelligence committees. Criminal negligence prosecution in the CIA should be considered.
Department of Justice attorneys who were made aware of the FBI problems in getting necessary search warrants or with personnel shirking their duties or of FBI management's dereliction, should be questioned to discover if complaints or requests for help were made within in the Justice Department, and if dereliction of duty was found in the Department of Justice, criminal proceedings should be conducted.
The U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, also made aware of the same complaints, is responsible for the Department of Justice's lack of support and ongoing cover up of internal FBI complaints, including legal submittal of complaints of FBI cover-up and dereliction of duty. Attorney General John Ashcroft, upon accepting office as the Attorney General did not review the administrative rules prior to 9/11, and did not follow up complaints made publicly during the prior administration about the Department of Justice practices which were clearly made before 9/11, and therefore is culpable of subverting statute requirements for the Department of Justice and the FBI. U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft did not require and enforce upon the FBI Director Stephen Mueller the duty to inform the American People, the President and the U.S. Congress of the facts and complaints surrounding the FBI as of August 2001. Therefore, since he no longer has the faith and trust of the American people Attorney General John Ashcroft must be removed from office.
Legal counsels at the Department of Justice and the FBI who have been required to enforce these administrative rules need to specifically point out why they continued to enforce the rules without appealing to their respective offices for reporting such matters, and if they did do so, those offices need to be investigated for failure to do their duties and where necessary criminal proceedings should be seriously considered.
Criminal charges should be brought upon those who clearly did not have the courage to point out or refuse to implement rules that were contrary to the U.S. statutes governing the duties and responsibilities of the FBI and Department of Justice.
Since this would require essential personnel to be involved in internal investigations, it is clear the FBI's counter terrorism units can no longer function effectively. Due to this remarkable and appalling cowardice and dereliction of duty, the FBI's role to protect this country from terrorists will NEVER be respected again. Moreover, the FBI's headquarters has clearly shown they have an institutionalized cowardice that not only needs to be punished, but also cannot be expected to reform. The FBI headquarters organizations and managers who failed as required by law to act to support the agents in the field should be removed in disgrace.
Since this would effectively destroy the ability for the FBI's anti terrorist organization, the anti terrorism role should be removed from the FBI's roles, and a separate U.S. Agency needs to tasked for this key role in America's security.
This new agency must be formed with new managers, and FBI field agents with expertise in anti terrorism, and especially those who have direct experience in anti terror over the last few years, need to be transferred to that new agency. Testimony of field agents needed to prosecute FBI headquarters staff must be coordinated carefully to ensure ongoing investigations at the time their testimony is needed will not be effected.
Exempt from investigation are those anti terrorist "inbound" hires or transfers which have occurred since Director Mueller began to reorganize the agency, since most if not all of these people have been brought on to solve the problems and are not likely to have contributed to those problems.
During the changeover from the old agency to the new agency, the U.S.
President should add a cabinet level official specifically tasked with
the changeover to ensure the President is made aware, on a highly frequent
basis, of the progress of the transition.
To summarize, the following steps are necessary to restore the faith and trust of the American People:
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