FBI Agent who captured Moussaoui says 9/11 could have been prevented

[ck4829]

Harry Samit is a Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent based out of the FBI Field Office in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a former United States Navy naval aviator, Naval Intelligence Officer, and a certified private pilot. He is most noted for arresting Zacarias Moussaoui on August 16, 2001.

In March 2006, during Moussaoui's death sentence trial, Samit testified that he had spent the time between August 16 and September 11 trying to warn U.S. officials about the possibility of terrorist actions involving the hijacking of aircraft. Four such actions occurred in the United States on September 11, 2001. Samit testified under oath that "criminal negligence, obstruction and careerism" by superiors at FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC thwarted an opportunity to prevent the September 11th attacks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Samit

[seemslikeadream]

1. COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED

"criminal negligence, obstruction and careerism" by superiors at FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC thwarted an opportunity to prevent the September 11th attacks.

[cspanlovr]

3. They didn't want to prevent it.

[seemslikeadream]

8. LIHOP

just another way of saying it

[burythehatchet]

18. HIHOP

Help it ......

[happydreams]

25. K&R

[Toots]

35. Freeh decided to politicize the FBI and we get 9-11

Freeh tried so hard to bring down Clinton that he neglected his job. Politics was more important to him than America just as it is with all Republicans...

[xchrom]

2. i wish people paid as much attention to the warnings sitting on w's desk.

anyway --

he's right.

it most assuredly could have been prevented.

[whistle]

4. Yes, had they captured and arrested George W. Bush, Dick Cheney

...and the rest of the neoconservative cabal instead in late June or early July of 2001!

[mirandapriestly]

5. hahah, exactly!eom

[EVDebs]

33. ROFLMAO ! Good one nt

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. I don't remember Thomas Keen or and of those other verbose

assholes making a big deal about this at the 9/11 "hearings" do you?

[speedoo]

9. Kean is Mr. Whitwash in Chief. LIHOP.

I have come to firmly believe in LIHOP. It's totally consistent with the NeoCon/PNAC agenda.

[QuettaKid]

12. when you get right down to it, LIHOP and MIHOP

are the SAME thing. Think about it.

[mirandapriestly]

16. Yes, what's the dif really?

Btw, I finally saw V for Vendetta. It reminded me so much of what is happening now. One phrase I liked, "There are no coincidences, only the illusion of coincidences". That MUST have been a reference to 9-11!

[catzies]

32. The difference is between passivity and activity.

LIHOP is passive; they just Let It Happen.

MIHOP is active; they Made It Happen.

LIHOP is for people who can't believe their government is capable of doing something so heinous and lying about it so coldly.

MIHOP is for people who have no trouble believing.

Seriously. No :tinfoilhat: here.

[eridani]

34. I'll believe they're good enough to pull off a MIHOP--

--when they demonstrate that they are good enough to figure out how to get bottled water to NOLA>

[LonelyLRLiberal]

36. Oh, they could do that, too, if they gave a rat's ass about NO

which they don't

[catzies]

39. First, I love your sig line. Now, back to your point

It's not that they didn't KNOW how to get bottled water to NOLA,

THEY DIDN'T WANT TO.

Remember, it's how they "solved the public housing problem in New Orleans.

Katrina response was DEFINITELY a MIHOP.

[me b zola]

22. That's how I see it. n/t

[Justice Is Comin]

7. And an FBI agent warned his superiors 70 times

about the Arabs taking the commercial flying lessons too but landing the plane interest...nah.

This may have been the same agent.

[speedoo]

10. This has been ignored/suppressed by the MSM.

The wiki article references The Sacramento Bee, but has any other news source reported on the agent's testimony?

[speedoo]

11. K&R... this neds to be voted up!! nt

[mhatrw]

13. NEWSFLASH.

Everybody who interfered with the Moussaoui investigation got promoted.

[mirandapriestly]

21. I didn't realize that

what about the lawyer who emailed evidence to witnesses, I always wondered if that was intentional.
Come to think of it many of the 911 people were promoted , too, and ya gotta wonder;why? the few who tried to do their jobs or get to the truth were demoted or fired(FBI Robert Wright, UL whistle blower Kevin Ryan).

[mhatrw]

24. It's seems like most everybody who "failed" on 9/11 was rewarded.

http://www.911citizenswatch.org/print.php?sid=858

Statement of September 11th Advocates Regarding Rewarding Abysmal Failure

There has been an untenable pattern in this administration where abysmal failure gets rewarded and accountability is not found. For example:

...

3. FBI agents Michael Maltbie and David Frasca were promoted within the ranks of the FBI:

Moussaoui’s arresting officer, FBI agent Harry Samit, tried some 70 times to get a FISA warrant to search Moussaoui's belongings before the 9/11 attacks. Samit testified during the Moussaoui penalty phase that he was thwarted by two agents at FBI HQ: Michael Maltbie, and David Frasca. These men scrubbed clean Samit’s FISA requests of any references to terrorist ties that Moussaoui might have had, and then refused to allow the FISA requests to even be made.

The US Government has asserted that had they been able to search Moussaoui's belongings, the 9/11 plot could have been prevented. Maltbie and Frasca were both promoted within the ranks of the FBI, where they are still employed today.

...

6. General Michael Hayden is now being appointed to Director of the CIA:

On September 10, 2001, two intercepts were received by the NSA: "tomorrow is zero hour" and "the match begins tomorrow."

According to the official record, these intercepts were not translated until September 12, 2001. In the summer of threat, the NSA apparently had a shortage of translators. General Michael Hayden was head of the NSA in September of 2001. Moreover, Hayden is the architect of the president's illegal wiretapping program. The congressional intelligence committees were not briefed about this program, as is required by law. General Michael Hayden is now being promoted to head the CIA.

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September 11th Advocates:

Kristen Breitweiser
Patty Casazza
Monica Gabrielle
Mindy Kleinberg
Lorie Van Auken
The pattern is compellingly clear. There is something rotten in D.C. and horrifically so.

[Nostradammit]

31. Who is the Secretary of State now?

Wasn't she National Security Advisor on 9-11-2001?

How'd she do with our national security, anyone remember?

[orwell]

14. Damn tinfoil hat...

...FBI agents. Why do they hate America?

I'm so glad that conspiracies of this magnitude are not possible.

After all, David Corn and Norman Solomon told me so. And they're on "our side."

Thank the Goddess that the "adults are in charge...:

[chat_noir]

15. K&R

Make your own Colbert On Notice Board: http://www.shipbrook.com/onnotice/

[Supersedeas]

17. nothing to see here....PDB's -- Dr. Condi says is all historical

[Stardust]

29. "Historical..." I never did understand her choice of words. Every

time I heard her say it, a question mark would pop up in my mind. What does that mean, historical? "Bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S" is a prediction, not "historical." It just pisses me off that she can bandy about words that make absolutely no sense and aren't pertinent and no one questions her. On MTP recently, she refused to discusss "hypotheticals." Hypothetical exploration is what drives those news shows! But she, Ms. Condoscenda Rice, conveniently decides that she will not discuss anything hypothetical. Sorry for the rant...she just makes my blood boil.

[Supersedeas]

38. sofedup - our collective blood is simmering...you are not alone

[libodem]

19. THE WHOLE STINKIN' ADMINISTRATION IS CULPABLE

they should be blamed ...you know if were Clinton's administration, the fault finding would go on nonstop

[peacebaby3]

20. I met the attorneys for Moussaoui recently...

I do death penalty work and they were at a conference I attended recently. Some of the things they spoke about were so interesting.

Some of the things I remember very clearly from the discussion was how Moussaoui asked for bail and said he should receive bail because he wanted to hijack a plane and crash it into the 4th Circuit. (Now we know this guy is definitely a mastermind in the 9/11 plot!)

And that the judge in the case refused to strike a juror who knew 25 ppl. killed at the Pentagon.

Also, an agent that testified at trial was asked if he had attempted to contact the White House about the 9/11 attacks and when he answered, yes, he was asked how many times. He said that he had e-mailed, called, and written starting 8/16/01 through 9/11/01 ...70 times!!!

I'm betting that this may be the same guy, but I haven't gone to the Wiki link yet and read up on him.

[LuckyLib]

28. If he had contacted the WH 70 times, I'm surprised the Secret

Service hadn't descended on him, thinking he was some nutball. All the messages must have ended up on some lackey's desk.

[me b zola]

23. This is the Dems response when asked about national security

Every Dem who gets face time on tv or radio interviews should bring this up when talking about national security. We don't have to take away the Bill of Rights to keep us secure--just elect competent people!

[Raster]

26. Isn't it just amazing that EVERY new revelation about 9/11 casts major

doubts on bushco*'s "official" version of the story. It should be painfully clear to everyone except the fucking stupid and/or collaborators that bushco* has lied through their collective teeth to keep the truth from coming out. Again I ask: What do these bastards have to hide?

[indepat]

27. "You want proof, Captain, there's your proof." One must accept LIHOP,

MIHOP, the grossest, most criminally negligent incompetence ever, or maybe someone has a better idea.

[lumpy]

30. Kick

Just as we thought.

[Gregorian]

37. Needed a new Pearl Harbor.

That just keeps coming back to me. The moment I read that in the PNAC, I knew something sinister was afoot.

I doubt very much the FBI would have sandbagged this man's efforts, if it were not from orders above. Cheney spent a lot of time over there. What was he saying?