How did John O'Neill wind up as security chief at the WTC?

I've wondered about this ever since I learned he had been a frustrated counterterrorism czar at the FBI. Did he have that FBI job during the FIRST WTC attack in the early 90s?

Did he ever say or write anything about a hunch that terrorists would return to the WTC sometime in the future, to finish the job? Has anybody asked his friend Richard Clarke this question?

O'Neill's life could make a GREAT film. The haunting tragedy in the storyline would be that, on 9/11/01, he evidently screwed up royally by advising people who'd already fled the second tower it was safe to go back upstairs.

He also liked to live well and spend money. He was forced out of the FBI, and one of his friends told him about the WTC job that paid $250,000 and he took it.

that I saw on PBS called "The Man who knew too much" or something like that. He left the FBI in disgust I believe and landed a job there, no details that I remember regarding how he got the job. On a side note, it was a Kuwati firm that ran security for WTC as well as Dulles Airport, which also raises some questions.

Bush-Linked Company Handled Security for the WTC, Dulles and United
by Margie Burns

George W. Bush's brother was on the board of directors of a company providing electronic security for the World Trade Center, Dulles International Airport and United Airlines, according to public records. The company was backed by an investment firm, the Kuwait-American Corp., also linked for years to the Bush family.

The security company, formerly named Securacom and now named Stratesec, is in Sterling, Va.. Its CEO, Barry McDaniel, said the company had a ``completion contract" to handle some of the security at the World Trade Center ``up to the day the buildings fell down."


http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0204-06.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/

You can go through every link, every video, graphic and whatever - this show was beyond comprehensive - shown in 2002 I think.

There is a long interview with our man Clarke - just look at the entire site, it is amazing and answers everything we're wondering about now.

... to the question I posed in my lead-in. Now I'm really glad I posted this. After I clicked 'POST', I worried that some readers might not understand the level of admiration I have for O'Neill. You can't have a tragedy without a genuine hero.

Wow. You are so right. This is one of the most thorough 9-11 websites I've ever visited. John O'Neill's life evidently is an eerily direct link between 9-11-01 and the first attack on the WTC eight and a half years earlier. One of O'Neill's first tasks after he took a counterterrorism job at the FBI involved coordinating the February 1995 capture of Ramzi Yousef, who had masterminded the 2/26/93 attack on the WTC, and who had pioneered al Qaeda's use of commercial airliners as weapons in the mid-90s Bojinka plot. The fruit of Yousef's insane ingenuity would end O'Neill's life, along with those of thousands of others, at the WTC on 9-11-01.

From the December 17 2001 New York Magazine, at http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/sept11/features/5513/

"O'Neill Versus Osama ... By Robert Kolker

"Monday night, we're going out, and I'll show you what you've been missing, ex-FBI agent John P. O'Neill told his friend Jerry Hauer. On O'Neill's overloaded social calendar, Mondays were reserved for Elaine's, where he was a charter member of the famously clubby crime-fighting crowd that included such legends as Bill Bratton and the late Jack Maple.... Jerry Hauer, the city's first terrorism czar under Rudy Giuliani, had just helped guide O'Neill to a soft landing in the private sector -- chief of security for the World Trade Center. The job, which could reach $300,000 with bonus, had cushioned the blow considerably. So for O'Neill, Monday, September 10, was a night to celebrate. ...

Hauer joined the party at 9:30, and they chatted about what they knew -- terrorism, security, the '93 attack on the Trade towers, the years when Hauer and O'Neill had worked closely together on bio-terror-defense strategies, the likelihood of another assault on the city. Weeks earlier, O'Neill had told one friend, "They'll never stop trying to take down those two buildings."

There was speculation that his lost briefcase was part of a setup to limit his promotion chances and drive him away, that he may have been enticed into the WTC job by arranging a larger than normal salary.

O'Neil, the disgusted counterterrorism guy
quits and gets a job with counterterrorism at the World Trade Center
lets see now - G.W's BROTHER runs the seciruty company
my oh my
what a convenient way to silence a traitor

JEEZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
I just don't want to go there AT ALL

It tells all about O'Neill, and about the Afghan pipeline.

"The Man Who Knew".

The details of how he got the job are sketchy at best. But I do know that Securacom was in charge of security at the WTC and, coincidently, of American or United Airlines. Also, coincidently, Dubyas brother Marvin Bush worked for Securacom. The Kuwaitis bankrolled Securacom.

I want to know where Marvin Bush was on 9/11/01. Maybe his late babysitter knew. The one who drove over herself with her car.