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Check12 Donating Member (445 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-21-05 06:35 PM
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Zaccarias Moussaoui and the FBI FISA court screwups
Interesting paragraph in The King's Red Herring
by Kristen Breitweiser with regards to the FISA court.

When it comes to the FBI and Zaccarias Moussaoui, one must understand that the FBI met all evidentiary standards to both apply for and be granted a FISA warrant. The information the FBI had to support their FISA request was two files on Moussaoui that were given to the FBI by the French and British intelligence services. Inexplicably, FBI lawyers and supervisors at FBI HQ "misunderstood" the evidentiary standards needed to apply for and receive a FISA warrant, and they refused the FISA request from the FBI agents in Minneapolis. Thus, the Moussaoui search warrant paperwork was never submitted to the FISA court. One need only read Colleen Rowley's memorandum to confirm these facts.
Had FBI HQ not denied the FISA request, the FISA court would have issued the search warrant to search Moussaoui's belongings. Whether gaining access to Moussaoui's belongings would have stopped the 9/11 attacks remains unknown at this time. Hopefully, Moussaoui's upcoming penalty phase hearing will reveal more information as to what the FBI/CIA/DOD/NSA already knew about Moussaoui during the summer of 2001 and whether getting the FISA warrant to search Moussaoui belongings would have even made a difference.
None of the FBI lawyers and/or supervisors responsible for this glaring error and "misjudgment" has been held accountable.

This is one of the 911 facts that really stinks. The FBI lawyers that had this "misjudgment" to to be put under oath!

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1220-22.htm


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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-21-05 06:46 PM
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1. Don't ja know - it takes real coordination and knowledge of the game
plan to pull off a LIHOP or a MIHOP and someone didn't figure out whether they should or they shouldn't have.

If the agencies have been following the law and they had received secret instructions to forget about it in certain instances, they could have also been confused.

WE WILL CHANGE YOUR REALITY and YOU WON"T KNOW WHAT REALITY IS. Affects more people than we mere citizens.

How can you take these people any other way than the way they are coming across with all these revelations. Bringing honor and dignity back to the WH is being flushed further down the toilet every day. They must never have meant it knowing what we know now and when they started planning their Pearl Harbor and their new imperialism with torture. PNAC, the cabal, and the barons - what a horrible thing to happen to this country.
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