Ali Soufan, former FBI interrogator, is coming up next on BookTV

[EFerrari]

to talk about his book The Black Banners, fyi.

If you miss it, it will likely be put up on their site in the next week or so.

[Poll_Blind]

1. Wow- I was just looking over his Wiki page and I'm definitely going to tune in.

Ali Soufan

Great catch and thanks for passing it on!

PB

[Poll_Blind]

2. Link to livestream here on C-Span2:

HERE

PB

[catabryna]

3. He was also the subject of a PBS Frontline program

that aired on Sept. 13th. It is available online.

[EFerrari]

4. Ali Soufan and Richard Clarke helped me understand

some very basic facts about how 9/11 went forward when at least two of its perps could have been picked up.

The CIA had photographs of the two hijackers in San Diego. They didn't show them to Soufan until after 9/11 although he was in Yemen and working with Al Qaida informers.

Clarke speculates that it's because Cofer Black was determined to get someone inside AQ and he was trying to get these two. If he notified the FBI of their presence, FBI would take over their cases, and CIA would "lose" them.

For all we heard about "the wall" between FBI and CIA after September 11 that supposedly prevented them from sharing information before 9/11, that seems to have been a self-serving exaggeration. CIA did share information with the FBI after 9/11 and before the law was changed. :shrug:

[newspeak]

10. I thought FBI colleen rowley and some of her colleagues

had a heads up about some of the terrorists involved? Was told to pass the info to her higher ups. Apparently, they did nothing.

[EFerrari]

11. I don't think it was on the two in San Diego.

But I remember she did try to communicate with Mueller.

[Bozita]

5. Huge K&R!

[EFerrari]

6. He wasn't listed on the schedule

so it was an accident that I caught this. Gene Robinson will be up later and some other folks but the book festival listing doesn't seem to be in order or complete. Bad Peter. :spank:

[undeterred]

7. Was on 60 minutes a couple of weeks ago.

[Bozita]

8. video is available at the CBSNews website - link...

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7380700n&tag=cbsnewsMainColumnArea.5

[EFerrari]

9. That was a good interview. Also on PBS, and that interview is on line.

He was holding up his book and the black strike-out lines are everywhere.

[EFerrari]

12. Re-run coming up in a few minutes. n/t