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...past month, the world has watched as the U.S. Congress investigates whether intelligence failures kept the FBI and CIA from stopping the Sept. 11 attacks. But at the same time, Germany has quietly been doing some soul searching of its own. In the late 1990s, a surveillance action dubbed Operation Tenderness, carried out by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), came close to uncovering the Hamburg cell that harbored several of the 9/11 plotters. But German intelligence officials, like their American counterparts, were unable to connect the dots. Now the German government is finally debating whether...
Next up will be Attorney General John Ashcroft. Commissioners will want to know why his priorities memo in May 2001 did not mention counterterrorism and why on Sept. 10 his bean counters cut the FBI's antiterrorism budget request by $50 million, or 12%. Justice spokesman Mark Corallo says the Attorney General will acknowledge that he didn't give the FBI everything it wanted but that he did ask for more antiterrorism funds than Reno...
According to FBI sources, Mueller, who took charge just before that September morning, will testify that he has transformed the bureau, replacing nearly all senior and middle managers, hiring linguists and analysts, and placing top priority on terrorism prevention. A new computer system to foster information sharing goes online this summer. "We'll be able to know what we know," says an agent...
...most revealing witnesses may be two top terrorist hunters who usually avoid the limelight--James Pavitt, the CIA's deputy director of operations, and John Pistole, the FBI's senior counterterrorism executive. They will be asked whether the FBI, CIA and other agencies have really joined forces or whether post-9/11 reforms have been treated as make-work projects for agencies that deeply distrust one another. While 50,000 names from various lookout lists have been loaded into the National Crime Information Center master list, Donna Bucella of the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center testified recently that the Pentagon...
...brilliant" strategic notions like responding to the Cole by "doing something about" Saddam Hussein. Even the Aug. 6 memo to the President from the CIA, which was titled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in U.S.," was seen as merely "historical," although it contained the shocking information that the FBI had 70 ongoing full field investigations of alQaeda activity in the U.S. and that there were "patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings." Without a specific "actionable" threat, any response to the memo would have been "tactical" and possibly misguided because there was no strategic matrix...