“[T]here existed a concerted effort on the part of agents conducting counterterrorism intelligence investigations to insulate the subjects of their investigations from criminal investigation and prosecution. (...) There is virtually no effort on the part of the FBI’s International Terrorism Unit to neutralize known and suspected terrorists residing within the United States."
Another bit of juicy evidence in the CIA IG report is this tidbit:
"No comprehensive report focusing on UBL since 1993."
"UBL" is of course Usama Bin Laden, the man who declared "war" on the United States in February 1998. He is the man with whom George Tenet claimed "We are at war", in December 1998. The man who changed countries several times since 1993, first to Sudan, then to Afghanistan, with trips to Saudi Arabia, Dubai (and a US military hospital), Pakistan, and who knows where else? Yet, the CIA wrote no "comprehensive report" on him since 1993???
Worse than that, the US government refused to accept a thick intelligence file offered by the Sudan intelligence service regarding Bin Laden and, "more than 200 leading members of his al-Qaeda terrorist network."
Something's rotten in ... Langley, Virginia.
"No comprehensive analysis that put into context the threats received in the spring and summer of 2001."
Incompetence or Machiavellianism? It's up to the reader to dig deeper. Accept these sometimes laughable excuses for the "failure" of 9/11, or stop trusting the spinmeisters.
"The Team also found that UBL station and [REDACTED CIA UNIT] were hostile to each other and working at cross purposes over a period of years before 9/11. The Team cannot measure the specific impact of this counterproductive behavior."
Well now! The stated and official purpose of the "UBL station" is to stop Bin Ladin, no? So what exactly are the "cross purposes" of this other Agency entity?
We know that during this stated time period Al Qaeda was being actively supported by the US in the Balkans wars. US personnel supplied arms and training to Al Qaeda affiliated KLA fighters.
So, which side in this "cross purposes" dispute is being admonished here? Who didn't get out of the way of whom? And just what is all this vague language trying to conceal?
No mention is made of Ali Mohamed, who worked for the Army Speical Forces, the FBI and the CIA, has ties to Al Qaeda, and is said to have run the US embassy bombing operation in Africa as well as trained some ot the alleged 9/11 hijackers.
No mention of Omar Saeed Shaykh, Osama Bin Ladin's "money man" linked to the head of Pakistani intelligence, and the huge wire transfers to and from Mohammed Atta.
Nor is Bin Ladin's protection by Pakistan, nor his admission to the military hospital in Rawalpindi mentioned.
No mention is made of the highly suspicious flight school, Huffman Aviation (where Atta and others trained to fly), whose planes participated in narcotics trafficking from South America, and is linked to a CIA front company.
