- Agents Lied To Federal Court for Wiretap
- Authority and Compromised Criminal Investigations of
Terrorists
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- FBI Headquarters International Terrorism Unit Acted
- as a 'Spectator' While Americans Died At The Hands of
Terrorists
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- (WASHINGTON, DC) -- Judicial Watch, the public interest
group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse,
represents 'whistleblowing' FBI Special Agent (SA) Robert G. Wright, Jr.,
of the bureau's Chicago Division, who said today that the FBI continues
to dodge accountability and cover-up its negligence and dereliction of
duty in pursuing terrorists who pose a direct threat to the United States.
SA Wright is the only FBI agent to seize terrorist funds (over $1.4 million)
from U.S.-based Middle Eastern terrorists using federal civil forfeiture
statutes, prior to the September 11th attacks. The original source of the
funds was Yassin Kadi, a Saudi businessman, who is reportedly a financier
of Osama bin Laden.
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- SA Wright points to recent misconduct and falsifications
of wiretap warrant applications by FBI agents (signed-off by the former
FBI Director, Louis Freeh) to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
(FISA) Court. Prior to September 11th, SA Wright alleged FBI intelligence
agents lied and hid vital records from criminal agents for the purpose
of obstructing his criminal investigation of the terrorists in order to
protect their 'subjects,' and prolong their intelligence operations. SA
Wright was stunned to learn recently that some of the FBI intelligence
agents that had stalled and obstructed his criminal investigations of terrorists
in Chicago had also lied to the judges of the FISA Court in Washington,
DC.
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- SA Wright says that, in his opinion, prior to September
11th, the ITUâs incompetence and repeated failures to support criminal
investigations contributed directly to the deaths of five Americans. The
ITUâs absolute failure to detect and identify the September 11th
terrorist plot, and the radical Islamists that carried it out, is further
evidence of the ITUâs negligence, and places the deaths of thousands
of Americans at their door.
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- Over the last year, SA Wright has repeatedly tried to
lawfully expose the FBIâs incompetence and dereliction: 1) through
FBI and Justice Department channels, 2) through individual Congressmen
and Senators, 3) to the Joint Congressional Intelligence Committee and,
4) at a press conference held by his legal counsel, Larry Klayman, the
Chairman of Judicial Watch, Inc., and co-counsel, David Schippers, Esq.,
of Schippers and Bailey of Chicago, IL.
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- The FBI continues to illegally refuse the release of
SA Wrightâs 500 page manuscript, Fatal Betrayals of the Intelligence
Mission, that SA Wright submitted for prepublication review in October
2001. In fact, the FBI refused to turn the manuscript over to Sen. Richard
C. Shelby, Vice Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Commitee, charged with
investigating the FBI's intelligence failures. The FBI falsely claims that
the manuscript contains grand jury material, although SA Wright has publicly
available, 'open source,' references for all of the material in the manuscript.
Schippers, a former federal prosecutor, has suggested that the committee
petition U.S. District Court Chief Judge Charles P. Kocoras to disclose
any such grand jury material under Criminal Rule 6(e)(3)(D), as matter
involving intelligence and counterintelligence.
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- In anticipation of being subpoenaed by the Joint Intelligence
Committee, SA Wright has prepared a statement detailing the FBIâs
negligence and dereliction of duty in pursuing the terrorist threat to
the American public.
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- "SA Wright is performing a service for his country
by exposing the FBI's dereliction of duty - particularly by FBI headquarters
staffers. Director Mueller survived the 'bad press' of last May, and the
nation's attention has moved on to something else - until the next terrorist
attack. How many more dead Americans will it take to get accountability
from the FBI?," stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel
Larry Klayman.
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- Judicial Watch's new book, Fatal Neglect: The U.S. Governmentâs
Continuing Failure to Protect American Citizens from Terrorists, details
FBI and other government incompetence that leaves American citizens exposed
to terrorism. <http://www.judicialwatch.org/store/fatalneglect.shtml%20>
Go to JudicialWatch.org for details.
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