IP: Newsweek: FBI had one hijacker before Sept 11th and Justice Dept Bumbled

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 09:44:40 -0700
> From: "Robert J. Berger" <rberger () ultradevices com>
>
> {The FBI and the Justice Dept had tools before Sept 11 and didn't use 
> them. They don't need more ways to errode our civil liberties, they need 
> to be competent}
>
> ** Access Denied **
> FBI agents in Minneapolis weren't given approval to search terrorist 
> suspect's hard drive by the Justice Department. If 'two and two' were put 
> together could hijackings have been stopped, asks one investigator. A Web 
> exclusive by Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman
>
> http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_email.asp?/news/636610.asp
>
> Oct. 1 —  Top Justice Department and FBI officials turned down a request 
> by Minneapolis FBI agents early last month for a special 
> counterintelligence surveillance warrant on a suspected Islamic terrorist 
> who officials now believe may have been part of the Sept. 11 plot to 
> attack the World Trade Center and Pentagon, NEWSWEEK has learned.
>
> <snip.
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