IP: Another FBI Agent Blows the Whistle

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 17:30:25 -0400
To: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Subject: Another FBI Agent Blows the Whistle

ARTICLE: Another FBI Agent Blows the Whistle

Another FBI Agent Blows the Whistle
New evidence that the Bureau quashed another terror probe before 9/11
by Jim Crogan

Wright: He's ready to talk.

WHEN FBI COUNSEL COLLEEN ROWLEY DROPPED her bombshell, a now-famous letter
to the director, detailing how bureau higher-ups thwarted attempts to
investigate accused 20th hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui, before the September
11 attacks, she set off a firestorm. The scorching produced a mea culpa of
sorts in June from FBI Director Robert Mueller and a promise of reform.
Now there's another whistle blower telling a similar pre-9/11 tale. And so
far, the FBI has gone to great lengths to silence him.
The Weekly has learned that Chicago-based special agent Robert Wright has
accused the agency of shutting down his 1998 criminal probe into alleged
terrorist-training camps in Chicago and Kansas City. The apparent goal of
the training camps, according to confidential documents obtained by the
Weekly, was to recruit and train Palestinian-American youths, who would
then slip into Israel. Recruits at these camps reportedly received weapons
training and instruction in bomb-making techniques in the early 1990s. The
bomb-making curriculum included the sort of explosives later used in the
1995 Oklahoma City bombing. And government documents state that two
trainees came from the Oklahoma City area.
One alleged trainer at the terror camps is now fending off a government
lawsuit to seize his bank accounts, car and property for alleged money
laundering on behalf of the militant group Hamas. So far, no one has been
prosecuted for these alleged terrorism-related activities.

full story
<http://www.laweekly.com/ink/printme.php?eid=37125>


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