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...experts echoed this, saying Mueller has the right idea but adding that the layers of agents and bureaucracy beneath him are reluctant to follow his direction. The bureau has been slow to recruit sources in Islamic circles in the U.S., and a top FBI official told the 9/11 panel that while the FBI knows "10 times" more about Islamic militants in the U.S. than it did before 9/11, "its knowledge is at about 20 on a scale of 1 to 100." Despite its recent hiring boom, the bureau still lacks sufficient Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and Pashto linguists. In a preliminary...
...information revealing that bin Laden headed his own terrorist organization, with its own targeting agenda and operational commanders." And though the CIA drafted "thousands" of reports on aspects of al-Qaeda's operation beginning in June 1998--some of them for the "highest officials in the government," the panel said--the agency never produced an "authoritative portrait of [bin Laden's] strategy and the extent of his organization ... or the scale of the threat his organization posed to the United States...
...disservice to history that Clinton's four hours of testimony on April 8 went unrecorded--and that the commission has offered the same cloak of secrecy to Bush--but sources close to the panel briefed TIME on the session. One commissioner described the atmosphere in the SKIF as "clearly not hostile." Clinton brought along Sandy Berger, his affable National Security Adviser, and Bruce Lindsey, his longtime friend and White House consigliere. The former President offered to stay "as long as any of you want," according to commission chairman Thomas Kean, a Republican, who wouldn't reveal anything else Clinton said...
...people familiar with the meeting say Clinton told the panel he not only read every scrap of intelligence on the leader of al-Qaeda but became obsessed with bin Laden and wanted him dead after al-Qaeda terrorists bombed U.S. embassies in East Africa in August 1998, murdering 224 people...
Clinton told the 9/11 panel he thought his order to kill bin Laden was unmistakably clear. After all, the Justice Department had ruled that the U.S. government's ban on assassinations didn't apply to bin Laden because he was a military target. Even the commission's chairman is convinced that Clinton wanted to kill bin Laden and that the CIA balked over the slightest ambiguities in his orders: "Some of the people who had to carry that out were part of an agency that had been accused of assassinations in Central America not too long before...