Confirmed: A.B. 'Buzzy' Krongard, Brother Of State Dep't IG, Sits On Blackwater's Advisory Board

[Hissyspit]

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004705.php

Confirmed: A.B. 'Buzzy' Krongard Sits on Blackwater's Advisory Board
By Spencer Ackerman - November 14, 2007, 12:11PM

That's settled. Blackwater spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell confirmed in an e-mail today to TPMmuckraker that A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard, brother of State Department Inspector General Howard "Cookie" Krongard, is a member of Blackwater's advisory board.

Howard Krongard testified this morning that he doesn't know if his brother is on Blackwater's advisory board, but if Buzzy is, Howard would recuse himself from any Blackwater-related investigations.

[mod mom]

1. UFB. More partisanship in "justice". rec'd

[Virginia Dare]

2. Buzzie and Cookie, cute...

are they married to Muffy and Bootsy? :puke:

[L. Coyote]

3. Howard J. Krongard, Inspector General, U.S. Department of State, just changed his testimony

during the Committee hearing a few minutes ago. I guess he got the NEWS that the facts are in the NEWS!

[L. Coyote]

6. Alvin Bernard "Buzzy" Krongard was the Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard, full name Alvin Bernard Krongard,<1> was the Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He was appointed by George J. Tenet on March 16, 2001.

The Executive Director is the third ranking position within the CIA and the incumbent functions essentially as the Chief Operating Officer of the Agency. For three years prior, Krongard had served as Counselor to the DCI.

A longtime consultant to DCIs, Krongard joined the Agency full time in February 1998, following a 29-year business career. ..........

“Buzzy” Krongard resigned from the CIA shortly after the arrival of DCI Porter Goss in September 2004. While at the CIA, he was the connection between Erik Prince of Blackwater Security Consulting and the CIA. Through his influence, Blackwater was able to receive its first black contract. ....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.B._%22Buzzy%22_Krongard

[seemslikeadream]

4. 'Buzzy' is also the end of the trail of the 9/11 put options

'Buzzy' is also the end of the trail of the 9/11 put options

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a090601shorts



Suspicious trading occurs on American and United, the two airlines used in the 9/11 attacks. “Between 6 and 7 September, The Chicago Board Options Exchange saw purchases of 4,744 put option contracts (a speculation that the stock will go down) in UAL versus 396 call options—where a speculator bets on a price rising. Holders of the put options would have netted a profit of $5 million once the carrier's share price dived after September 11. On 10 September, more trading in Chicago saw the purchase of 4,516 put options in American Airlines, the other airline involved in the hijackings. This compares with a mere 748 call options in American purchased that day. Investigators cannot help but notice that no other airlines saw such trading in their put options.” One analyst says: “I saw put-call numbers higher than I've ever seen in 10 years of following the markets, particularly the options markets.” (Associated Press, 9/18/01, San Francisco Chronicle, 9/19/01) “To the embarrassment of investigators, it has also emerged that the firm used to buy many of the ‘put’ options … on United Airlines stock was headed until 1998 by ‘Buzzy’ Krongard, now executive director of the CIA.” Krongard was chairman of Alex Brown Inc., which was bought by Deutsche Bank. “His last post before resigning to take his senior role in the CIA was to head Bankers Trust—Alex Brown's private client business, dealing with the accounts and investments of wealthy customers around the world.” (Independent, 10/14/01)

“Buzzy” Krongard managed firm that handled “PUT” options on United Airlin
FTW - October 9, 2001 – Although uniformly ignored by the mainstream U.S. media, there is abundant and clear evidence that a number of transactions in financial markets indicated specific (criminal) foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the case of at least one of these trades -- which has left a $2.5 million prize unclaimed -- the firm used to place the “put options” on United Airlines stock was, until 1998, managed by the man who is now in the number three Executive Director position at the Central Intelligence Agency.

Until 1997 A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard had been Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown. A.B. Brown was acquired by Banker’s Trust in 1997. Krongard then became, as part of the merger, Vice Chairman of Banker’s Trust-AB Brown, one of 20 major U.S. banks named by Senator Carl Levin this year as being connected to money laundering. Krongard’s last position at Banker’s Trust (BT) was to oversee “private client relations.” In this capacity he had direct hands-on relations with some of the wealthiest people in the world in a kind of specialized banking operation that has been identified by the U.S. Senate and other investigators as being closely connected to the laundering of drug money.

Krongard joined the CIA in 1998 as counsel to CIA Director George Tenet. He was promoted to CIA Executive Director by President Bush in March of this year. BT was acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1999. The combined firm is the single largest bank in Europe. And, as we shall see, Deutsche Bank played several key roles in events connected to the September 11 attacks.
THE SCOPE OF KNOWN INSIDER TRADING

Before looking further into these relationships it is necessary to look at the insider trading information that is being ignored by Reuters, The New York Times and other mass media. It is well documented that the CIA has long monitored such trades – in real time – as potential warnings of terrorist attacks and other economic moves contrary to U.S. interests. Previous stories in FTW have specifically highlighted the use of Promis software to monitor such trades.
more
http://www.hereinreality.com/insidertrading.html


Former CIA director appointed to board as outside US director - Krongard
Posted by seemslikeadream on Tue Mar-22-05 03:45 PM

Baltimore, MD (March 18, 2005) – DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP (DLA Piper), one of the world’s leading law firms, today announced the appointment of A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard as an outside U.S. director to its Global Board of Directors which has been organized to oversee and coordinate the worldwide operations of the firm. The board will be led by Senator George J. Mitchell who will serve as Chairman and continue his role as a partner within the firm.

Krongard is the former Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of investment banking firm Alex. Brown, Incorporated. He currently is the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of PHH Corporation, a leading outsource provider of mortgage and vehicle fleet management services.

“We’ve assembled a board of directors that reflects the global reach of the firm and the depth of our core practice areas,” said Senator Mitchell. “As a group and individually, we are firmly committed to guiding this firm during a period of tremendous global growth.”

In January 2005, DLA and Piper Rudnick merged to form a legal services organization with more than 2,800 lawyers in 49 offices in 18 countries around the world. The firm has concentrated its global practices into seven areas of focus which include Corporate and Finance; Litigation; Real Estate; Regulatory & Legislative; Commercial; Human Resources; and Technology, Media and Communications (TMC) practices.

more
http://www.lawfuel.com/index.php?page=press_releases&handler=focus&pressreleaseid=2822&category=&return=list-publications&sortby=timestamp&screen=1



Let Bin Laden stay free, says CIA man AB “Buzzy” Krongard
Posted by seemslikeadream on Thu May-24-07 08:51 PM



January 09, 2005
Tony Allen-Mills

...

If the world’s most wanted terrorist is captured or killed, a power struggle among his Al-Qaeda subordinates may trigger a wave of terror attacks, said AB “Buzzy” Krongard, who stepped down six weeks ago as the CIA’s third most senior executive.

“You can make the argument that we’re better off with him (at large),” Krongard said. “Because if something happens to Bin Laden, you might find a lot of people vying for his position and demonstrating how macho they are by unleashing a stream of terror.”

Krongard, a former investment banker who joined the CIA in 1998, said Bin Laden’s role among Islamic militants was changing. “He’s turning into more of a charismatic leader than a terrorist mastermind,” he said. “Some of his lieutenants are the ones to worry about.” Krongard, 68, said he viewed Bin Laden “not as a chief executive but more like a venture capitalist”.

...

Several US officials have privately admitted that it may be better to keep Bin Laden pinned down on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan rather than make him a martyr or put him on trial. But Krongard is the most senior figure to acknowledge publicly that his capture might prove counter-productive.

Krongard also acknowledged that the CIA was still having trouble planting spies in Islamic militant ranks. “There are hundreds and hundreds of (Al-Qaeda) cells — it’s like a living, moving bit of protoplasm,” he said.

more
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1431539,00.html



“Buzzy” Krongard managed firm that handled “PUT” options on United Airlin
Posted by seemslikeadream on Tue May-23-06 10:36 AM

“Buzzy” Krongard managed firm that handled “PUT” options on United Airlines

FTW - October 9, 2001 – Although uniformly ignored by the mainstream U.S. media, there is abundant and clear evidence that a number of transactions in financial markets indicated specific (criminal) foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the case of at least one of these trades -- which has left a $2.5 million prize unclaimed -- the firm used to place the “put options” on United Airlines stock was, until 1998, managed by the man who is now in the number three Executive Director position at the Central Intelligence Agency.

Until 1997 A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard had been Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown. A.B. Brown was acquired by Banker’s Trust in 1997. Krongard then became, as part of the merger, Vice Chairman of Banker’s Trust-AB Brown, one of 20 major U.S. banks named by Senator Carl Levin this year as being connected to money laundering. Krongard’s last position at Banker’s Trust (BT) was to oversee “private client relations.” In this capacity he had direct hands-on relations with some of the wealthiest people in the world in a kind of specialized banking operation that has been identified by the U.S. Senate and other investigators as being closely connected to the laundering of drug money.

Krongard joined the CIA in 1998 as counsel to CIA Director George Tenet. He was promoted to CIA Executive Director by President Bush in March of this year. BT was acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1999. The combined firm is the single largest bank in Europe. And, as we shall see, Deutsche Bank played several key roles in events connected to the September 11 attacks.
THE SCOPE OF KNOWN INSIDER TRADING

Before looking further into these relationships it is necessary to look at the insider trading information that is being ignored by Reuters, The New York Times and other mass media. It is well documented that the CIA has long monitored such trades – in real time – as potential warnings of terrorist attacks and other economic moves contrary to U.S. interests. Previous stories in FTW have specifically highlighted the use of Promis software to monitor such trades.
more

http://www.hereinreality.com/insidertrading.html

Suspicious trading occurs on American and United, the two airlines used in the 9/11 attacks. “Between 6 and 7 September, The Chicago Board Options Exchange saw purchases of 4,744 put option contracts (a speculation that the stock will go down) in UAL versus 396 call options—where a speculator bets on a price rising. Holders of the put options would have netted a profit of $5 million once the carrier's share price dived after September 11. On 10 September, more trading in Chicago saw the purchase of 4,516 put options in American Airlines, the other airline involved in the hijackings. This compares with a mere 748 call options in American purchased that day. Investigators cannot help but notice that no other airlines saw such trading in their put options.” One analyst says: “I saw put-call numbers higher than I've ever seen in 10 years of following the markets, particularly the options markets.” (Associated Press, 9/18/01, San Francisco Chronicle, 9/19/01) “To the embarrassment of investigators, it has also emerged that the firm used to buy many of the ‘put’ options … on United Airlines stock was headed until 1998 by ‘Buzzy’ Krongard, now executive director of the CIA.” Krongard was chairman of Alex Brown Inc., which was bought by Deutsche Bank. “His last post before resigning to take his senior role in the CIA was to head Bankers Trust—Alex Brown's private client business, dealing with the accounts and investments of wealthy customers around the world.” (Independent, 10/14/01)
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a090601shorts

Buzzy Says It Would Be Bad To Catch OBL
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C2089-1431539%2C00.html

Former CIA director appointed to board as outside US director - Krongard
Baltimore, MD (March 18, 2005) – DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP (DLA Piper), one of the world’s leading law firms, today announced the appointment of A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard as an outside U.S. director to its Global Board of Directors which has been organized to oversee and coordinate the worldwide operations of the firm. The board will be led by Senator George J. Mitchell who will serve as Chairman and continue his role as a partner within the firm.

Krongard is the former Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of investment banking firm Alex. Brown, Incorporated. He currently is the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of PHH Corporation, a leading outsource provider of mortgage and vehicle fleet management services.

“We’ve assembled a board of directors that reflects the global reach of the firm and the depth of our core practice areas,” said Senator Mitchell. “As a group and individually, we are firmly committed to guiding this firm during a period of tremendous global growth.”

In January 2005, DLA and Piper Rudnick merged to form a legal services organization with more than 2,800 lawyers in 49 offices in 18 countries around the world. The firm has concentrated its global practices into seven areas of focus which include Corporate and Finance; Litigation; Real Estate; Regulatory & Legislative; Commercial; Human Resources; and Technology, Media and Communications (TMC) practices.

more
http://www.lawfuel.com/index.php?page=press_releases&ha ...

Follow the Money: Bush, 9/11, and Deep Threat

by Fran Shor
Published on Wednesday, May 22, 2002 by CommonDreams.org

The CIA and Other Deep Pockets

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11 a number of news stories appeared concerning investments in “put” options in United and American Airlines. Put options are shares that are bets on falling market prices for specific stocks. In the week before September 11 put options in United and American Airlines went through a furious and unprecedented spasm of investment. In addition put options for Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch, two of the biggest occupants of the World Trade Center, also saw abnormal activity. Most of the investments in these put options originated in Germany through the Deutsche Bank. Deutshce Bank had earlier acquired Banker’s Trust, a investment banking firm whose Vice Chairman in charge of “private client relations” in the late 1990’s was A. B. “Buzzy” Krongard. In March of 2001, Krongard was appointed Executive Director of the CIA.

Certainly, the CIA has a history of laundering money and dealings with shady investment characters. What becomes particularly relevant in the lead-up to 9/11 is the August CIA briefing of Bush concerning the potential threat of attacks by bin Laden using hijacked planes on certain sites, such as the Pentagon and World Trade Center, and the fact that the CIA had bugging equipment on bin Laden messages and international banking operations. Although no one has apparently claimed the money from the put options, questions remain about Krongard and the CIA’s involvement.
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0522-07.htm


NEW CIA UNIVERSITY
REVEALS AGENCY PRIORITIES
July 3, 2002,-- 17:00 PDT (FTW) -- The CIA is now operating a university somewhere in northern Virginia. According to an entry in a June 24 newsletter published by an association of former intelligence officers, some of the courses taught at the university are "economic trends, international banking, the world oil market, and how the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organization, etc. and other non-governmental organizations work."

For four years FTW has been teaching that the CIA's primary role, it's raison d'etre, was to serve the interests of Wall Street and the major banks. In our recent three-country lecture tour, our documentation of the close links between CIA and Wall Street has taken many by surprise. Thirty years ago Professor Peter Dale Scott of Berkeley disclosed that six out of the first seven deputy directors of intelligence (CIA's number two position) had gone directly from Wall Street into service at the Agency. Since Sept. 11, FTW's disclosure that the CIA's current executive director, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard, is a former investment banker has caused deeper rumbles. The firm he once headed, AlexBrown/Deutschebank, has been connected to insider trading on United Air Lines stock just before the Sept. 11 attacks. The NYSE's current executive vice president for enforcement, David Doherty, is a retired CIA general counsel.
more



procedure used at Deutschebank/AB Brown assured anonymity

"European reporters found that most of the suspicious pre-attack trades passed through Deutschebank and especially via CIA Executive Director A.B. Krongard’s former Alex Brown investment division by means of a procedure called portage, which assures the anonymity of individuals making the transactions. But Congress has not publicly revealed whether they will call Krongard and other Alex Brown traders to testify in open hearings, or whether they will subpoena the pre-attack documents in question."
more
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00119.htm

A Deutsche Bank executive was convicted of money laundering shortly before 9/11, and the bank laundered heroin money linked to the CIA.

And Shattuck actually resigned on September 12(!) from his three-year $30 million contract as head of AB Brown.


SMOKING GUN BURIED DURING CALIFORNIA RECALL VOTE!

On October 7 while the eyes of America were fixed on the California Recall vote the Securities and Exchange Commission quietly announced it was closing its investigation of suspicious stock trades connected to 911. The SEC's reason for closing the investigation can best be summed up as "What insider trading?".

...

* Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co., which occupied 22 floors of the World Trade Center, saw 2,157 of its October $45.00 put options bought in the three trading days before Black Tuesday; this compares to an average of 27 contracts per day before September 6.

* Merrill Lynch & Co., with headquarters near the Twin Towers, saw 12,215 October $45.00 put options bought in the four trading days before the attacks; the previous average volume in these options had been 252 contracts per day.

The CIA routinely monitors stock trades looking for exactly these kinds of suspicious transactions. The fact that these trades failed to sound any alarms is in itself suspicious as the bank which was the trading hub has a man inside the Agency. That man is CIA Executive Director “Buzzy” Krongard and the bank is Deutsche bank.

http://ez-websites.com/grudge /


But Krongard exhibited the requisite secretiveness when asked
to explain his interest in intelligence and how he came to land
a job in Tenet's inner circle. If you go back to the CIA's origins
during World War II in the Office of Strategic Services, he
explained, "the whole OSS was really nothing but Wall Street
bankers and lawyers."
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16570-2001Ma ...



Bankers Trust Bldg aka Deutsch Bank

[Octafish]

10. You're like a good cop.

You never forget.

[seemslikeadream]

18. or

I can understand why you didn't want to use that word! :hi:

[Virginia Dare]

15. Wowy wow wow wow!...

what have we got here?

:wow:

[seemslikeadream]

17. Ya just can't make this shit up, just can't make it up

No really ya just can't make it up if ya tried!

[Virginia Dare]

20. I have a friend who once worked for Alex Brown..

here in D.C. They specialized in taking care of "old money".

[bobthedrummer]

32. Let's follow up on this fact a bit more

"Here's a bit more on Alvin, who handled a lot of Halliburton 'business'" (posted 11-16-07)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3068888#3069094

[sattahipdeep]

40. What the hell is going on here?

When the Bushes are involved in dirty deals or even criminal
activity, standards of evidence change. Instead of proof “beyond
a reasonable doubt” that would lock up an average citizen, the
evidence must be perfect.

If there’s any doubt at all, the Bushes must be presumed innocent.
Even when their guilt is obvious to anyone with an ounce of common
sense, it’s their accusers and those who dare investigate who get
the worst of it. Their motives are challenged and their own shortcomings
are cast in the harshest possible light.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/112407.html



:hi:

[lyonn]

21. It's like a vicious circle, Big Money and Politics

Only it seems to be the real politics are hidden in banks. The monied ones choose who will do their bidding in govt.

There were so many leads that were not "publicly" followed up. The hijackers in San Diego that the CIA knew of but not the FBI. The suspicious Arabs in flight schools in Minnesota and Arizona. This is stuff that is near the top of the evidence heap.

Lordy we need leadership that is not bought and paid for. Can't imagine that happening.

[WinkyDink]

28. Murders on the gambling cruise ships owned by Abramoff and frequented by Atta.

[AntiFascist]

24. Exactly, just when you think you have a handle on the depths of the war profiteering...

you discover that this sinister business includes profitting off the earliest acts of the other side in the war. Not only is the War on Terror a sham, so is the 9-11 investigation.

[WinkyDink]

29. I think you mean: "on the depths of the TREASON".

[leveymg]

25. Another 9/11 CIA figure ended up on the Blackwater Board: Cofer Black

Perjury by CIA Counterterrorism Center Director - the Blocked Memo
by leveymg
Fri Jun 10, 2005 at 07:51:25 AM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/10/105125/910

June 10, 2005. The LA Times reports that in early 2000, the CIA intentionally withheld a memo from the FBI that reported the entry of key 9/11 hijackers into the US. See: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-terror10jun10,0,510936,print.story?coll=la-home -headlines (link now broken: see, instead: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-terror10jun10,0,510936,print.story? (see partial reprint, below)
Here are some related working links
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2005/6/10/105125/910/0/post#here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/03/01_crimes.html
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/09/p/26_failed.html )

In his testimony before the Joint Congressional Intelligence Committee in September 2002, former head of the CIA Counter-Terrorism Center (CTC) stated under oath that his office had inadvertently neglected to inform the FBI when it became known in early 2000 that Flight 77 hijacker, Nawaf al-Midhar, had entered the U.S. However, it was revealed yesterday that a memo informing the FBI had actually been drafted at CTC, but an order was issued blocking transmission of that information.

In this sworn testimony, Cofer Black stated that he and Agency staff had simply missed the importance of reports that know al-Qaeda terrorists had entered the US after attending an al-Qaeda planning summit. According to Black, then CTC director -- who after 9/11 was promoted by President Bush to head State Department Counterterrorism -- the CIA Center failed to pass this information on to the FBI in early 2000 because staff were distracted and overworked. For more information see:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/03/01_ ...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/09/p/2 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0310/S00257.htm

However, as we learned yesterday, Black's testimony to Congress was a material misrepresentation of what is the most important question that Congress had for the CIA. Why wasn't the FBI informed in a timely way of this obviously critical development in tracking known al-Qaeda terrorists?

As ranking officer at CTC, Cofer Black was in a position to know about the Center's memo that had been prepared for transmittal to the FBI at the time. He was also clearly in the chain of command that would decide to block the memo's transmission to the FBI. Nonetheless, Black told Congressional investigators something quite different, and his testimony under oath before the Joint Committee was patently false, in light of the facts that were released yesterday.

LA TIMES STORY (5/10/03, archived at Wayback, 5/12/03)

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-terror10jun10,0,510936,print.story?

THE NATION
Memo on 9/11 Plotters Blocked
New disclosures show that CIA information in 2000 about two Al Qaeda operatives in San Diego was squelched before reaching the FBI.
By Josh Meyer
Times Staff Writer

June 10, 2005

WASHINGTON — A chilling new detail of U.S. intelligence failures emerged Thursday, when the Justice Department disclosed that about 20 months before the Sept. 11 attacks, a CIA official had blocked a memo intended to alert the FBI that two known Al Qaeda operatives had entered the country.

The two men were among the 19 hijackers who crashed airliners into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.

If the FBI had received the official communique from the CIA's special Osama bin Laden unit when it was ready for transmittal in January 2000, its agents likely could have tracked down the men, according to U.S. intelligence officials familiar with a newly declassified report of the Justice Department's inspector general.

Officials involved in the case of alleged would-be hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui had attempted to block release of the report, asserting that it would compromise the outcome of his case. But Inspector General Glenn A. Fine went to court and won release of the report after deleting the section on Moussaoui.

The report does not draw major new conclusions or disclose significant new episodes about the months and years leading up to Sept. 11. Rather, it fills in blanks and provides new details about previously known matters — notably the failure to learn sooner about Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar, the so-called San Diego hijackers.

An 18-month delay in the CIA's handing over of information about the two hijackers to the FBI and other domestic law enforcement agencies had been well-publicized. But the report's conclusion that an agent had written a memo specifically designed for transmittal to the FBI to alert the bureau to the men's presence — and that a supervisor deliberately had prevented it from being sent — is new.

The reason the CIA official, identified by the fictitious name "John," put a hold on the communique remains a mystery, the report said. It said the officials involved didn't recall the incident. Even when the author of the memo followed up a week later with an e-mail asking if it had been sent to the FBI, nothing was done.

The memo was written by an FBI agent on assignment to the CIA's special Bin Laden unit. According to the report, rather than send his memo directly to the FBI, he sent it to the deputy chief of the CIA unit because only supervisors were authorized to send such memos to the FBI.

Fine's report contains extensive new detail about that incident, as well as several already reported missed opportunities by the FBI to track down the two men.

SNIP

Then-CIA Director George J. Tenet has vigorously disputed some of the criticisms of his agency, but Thursday attributed the CIA's failure to turn over information about Alhazmi and Almihdhar to his agents' being overwhelmed, exhausted and understaffed.

Days after a meeting of Al Qaeda operatives in Malaysia in January 2000, the CIA's Bin Laden specialists drafted a flurry of memos about the two men, their suspected terrorist connections and Almihdhar's possible ties to the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. Some of the memos were based in part on intelligence provided by the National Security Agency. The CIA was also in possession of a photocopy of Almihdhar's Saudi passport and valid multi-entry visa to the U.S.

Several cables from the CIA's Bin Laden desk disseminated the information to agency officials around the world — including to one of the unit's special agents detailed to the FBI's Washington field office, according to Fine's report.

That employee, "Dwight," began drafting a memo addressed to the FBI's Bin Laden unit chief at bureau headquarters and to its New York field office. The memo contained virtually all of the details known to the agency, including Almihdhar's passport and visa information, which listed his intention to stay in New York.

But at 4 p.m. that day, another CIA Bin Laden desk officer, "Michelle," added a note to the memo: "pls hold off on (memo) for now per (the CIA deputy chief of Bin Laden unit)."

Eight days later, in mid-January, "Dwight" sent an e-mail to "John," asking why it hadn't been sent: "Is this a no go, or should I remake it in some way."

The CIA was unable to locate a response to the e-mail. Fine's report concludes that the CIA didn't turn over documentation of the electronic memo until Fine's investigators came across a reference and specifically asked for it in February 2004. That came so late in the investigation that it delayed release of the report and caused many more CIA and FBI officials to be interviewed, the report says.

Ultimately, Fine's investigators gave up trying to find an explanation.

Records show that the CIA didn't forward the information about Almihdhar and Alhazmi to domestic law enforcement officials until late August 2001, when it asked that the men be put on watch lists.

[leveymg]

30. CIA Chain of Command for the Blocked Memo

"Dwight" (memo author, analyst, CIA Counter-Terrorism Center (CTC) Bin Laden Unit)
"Michelle" (a more senior CTC analyst)
(?) - Deputy Chief, CTC Bin Laden Unit
Michael Schauer, Chief, CTC Bin Laden Unit
Cofer Black, Director, CIA-CTC
James Pavitt, Deputy Director, CIA Directorate of Operations
John McLaughlin, Director, CIA Directorate of Operations
George Tenet, Director, CIA

When are we going to get an answer in a court of law as to why the CIA withheld this memo from distribution to the FBI and Intelligence Community, and what was the decision-making process at CIA when al-Midhar and al-Hazmi entered the U.S., meeting a Saudi intelligence officer near LAX, who took them to San Diego on 01/15/2000?

Why did George W. Bush refuse to roll-up the Al-Qaeda cells inside the U.S. that Tenet and Black had warned Bush and Condi Rice about on July 10, 2001?

Why did George W. Bush refuse to roll-up these al-Qaeda cells, even after George Tenet personally visited him at Crawford on August 17, 2001 (and possibly again on August 23 or 24)?

[bobthedrummer]

36. Indeed, these simple questions still go unanswered by those accountable-kick

[bobthedrummer]

31. More Buzzy and Cookie threads that are unforgettable and important

"For those of us that are focusing on this latest criminal conspiracy" (posted 11-17-07)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3069704#3069811

[Solly Mack]

5. K/R

and then he ah...clarified... his testimony...snicker

[L. Coyote]

7. Even Wikipedia knows about the relationship of Blackwater and "Buzzy"

and this is no secret to his brother either, so he should have recused himself long ago because any investigation would lead to "Buzzy" at the CIA before he joined Blackwater's advisory board.

[jhain]

8. like to a fly on the turkey next week

at THAT family feast.

Do these people truly believe that we are all imbeciles or is it just plain, old hubris gone wild?

[lyonn]

22. The cover ups and dealings between the CIA and govt.

has been going on for a long time. Who knows how long. What will stop them, nothing has so far. The media is a part of the plan to keep the dummies dumb.

[kelligesq]

9. Gee, ya think that's how Blackwater got a 1 billion $ no bid contract in Iraq -?

duh

[L. Coyote]

12. NO, that was because of the $1 million in donations to the Republican Party!

As they say in Politics 101 "It's the money, honey."

[L. Coyote]

19. START-UP Donations?? 10/4/2000 = $68,000 and 10/30/2000 = $20,000

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1958984&mesg_id=1959500

[MiniMe]

11. Howard has been stalling investigations.

Hmmmmm, I think he might be in a bit of hot water with congress.

[Virginia Dare]

14. The Waxman cometh!....n/t

[bbgrunt]

13. k and r!!!!

[Blaze Diem]

16. Cronyism..

k&r

[spanone]

23. this corruption train runs everywhere

[Hissyspit]

26. .

[WinkyDink]

27. "HE DOESN'T KNOW...." Bwahahahaha! NOT playing even in PEORIA, "Cookie"! (Yeesh, "Cookie".)

[bobthedrummer]

33. Keep this kicked and fill in more details about Cookie and Buzzy et.al.

[bobthedrummer]

34. kick

[bobthedrummer]

35. .

[bobthedrummer]

37. .

[bobthedrummer]

38. One week later this still needs a kick

[sattahipdeep]

39. Interesting Buzzy called Waxman

Krongard family feud to continue in Congress
By Stephen Kiehl | Sun reporter
November 20, 2007

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.krongard20nov20,0,6300827.story

....
Cookie Krongard recused himself from any Blackwater investigations
last week, after he learned that his brother was on the board.
Buzzy Krongard resigned from the board Friday to avoid any conflict.

....
But Buzzy Krongard was on the board, and he called the committee
to say that he had told his brother of his position weeks earlier.

To sort out the conflicting accounts, Waxman scheduled a hearing
for the week of Dec. 3 and asked both Krongard brothers to appear.


Respect is the ultimate currency :hi:

http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1622

[sattahipdeep]

41. State IG Employees

In a Nov. 14 report Republicans argued that interviews with State IG
employees showed that while Howard Krongard has been an abusive manager, there
is no evidence he tried to assist the administration by blocking probes.

http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=38623&dcn=todaysnews

Nobody wants to touch this thing.

[sattahipdeep]

42. Susceptible to monitoring by terrorists

In the report, the Democrats said they had evidence that Krongard
had impeded the investigation and the potential criminal prosecution
of procurement fraud involving State contractor DynCorp International
by refusing to authorize IG agents’ travel requests.

One of the cases mentioned in the report involved as many as 2,000 laptop
computers that DynCorp bought through a subcontractor in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In fall 2006, State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement
Affairs became concerned that the computers might have contained counterfeit
hardware and pirated software. Furthermore, because the operating systems were
bought locally, officials believed they could have been susceptible to monitoring
by terrorists, according to the report.

Krongard refused to send an IG agent to Afghanistan to secure
105 suspect computers for the investigation despite repeated
requests from the IG office’s staff. He preferred that State’s
Bureau of Diplomatic Security in Afghanistan handle the situation.
However, the bureau and the Army refused to secure the operating
systems due to lack of resources, according to the report.
The investigation was closed in early 2007 without criminal prosecution.

http://www.fcw.com/online/news/150816-1.html

http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1622

[sattahipdeep]

43. Human trafficking

There are also allegations that the building’s contractor, First
Kuwaiti, was involved in labor trafficking.
When Mr. Krongard heard that his staff might investigate this
issue, he sent them an e-mail that said,as one official described
it, “cease and desist all work, I’m taking care of this.”

Mr. Krongard conducted his own personal and unprecedented
investigation of the potential scandal.
According to Mr. Krongard, he interviewed six employees who
had been handpicked by First Kuwaiti.
He questioned them without a translator present and took virtually no notes.
Mr. Krongard then concluded that there was no evidence that First Kuwaiti
had committed human rights violations.
http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1622

http://bahrain.usembassy.gov/news_from_washington/bahrain-trafficking-in-persons-report.html



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=545986&mesg_id=545986

[sattahipdeep]

44. "You could have blown me over."

http://oversight.house.gov
Waxman's committee's website :hi:

Friday, November 16, 2007
Administration Oversight, State Department Inspector General
Brother Contradicts Testimony of the State Department Inspector General

The Oversight Committee will hold a hearing after the Thanksgiving
recess to examine whether Howard Krongard, the Inspector General of
the State Department, provided truthful testimony at the Committee’s
November 14, 2007, hearing.


Memorandum
http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20071116150459.pdf

Buzzy Krongard stated that during the Committee hearing, he was at
home watching it live. He listened to Howard Krongard's prepared
opening statement. Then, he heard Howard Krongard offer spontancously
the comment that his brother had no connection to Blackwater.
Buzzy Krongard said: "You could have blown me over."