Tag: James Clapper
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28 pages connect Saudi prince to al Qaeda leader, supporters of 9/11 hijackers
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org The Saudi ambassador who met with President George W. Bush at the White House two days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 had connections to a major al-Qaeda figure and other Saudis suspected of helping two of the suicide hijackers while they were in the United States.
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Fear of stalling as U.S. intelligence chief says Congress must OK release of 28 pages
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org In a development that could delay the release of 28 classified pages from Congress’s report about Saudi Arabia’s role in 9/11, the head of the nation’s intelligence community has told a delegation seeking their release that the ultimate decision about whether to make those pages public would be made by Congress.
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Its spy vs spy as CIA directors differ on making public 28 hidden pages of 9-11 report
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Two CIA directors. Two conflicting opinions. On Monday, former CIA director Porter Goss strongly disagreed with current CIA chief John Brennan’s assertions on Meet the Press as to why President Obama should keep secret 28 classified pages from a 14-year-old congressional report about 9/11 said to implicate the Kingdom of Saudi…
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9/11 Review Commission under the FBI’s thumb
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org A secretive blue-ribbon panel formed by Congress to conduct an “external review” of the FBI’s post-9/11 performance – and to assess new evidence – was largely under the sway of the very agency it was tasked to examine.
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FBI slams own 9/11 document; New report discounts Sarasota Saudis ties to hijackers
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org A report that lauds the FBI for making “great strides” in protecting the nation from terrorists in the past decade also says the Bureau produced and made public bad information linking Saudis in Sarasota to 9/11 terrorists.
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The NSA black hole: 5 basic things we still don’t know about the agency’s snooping
By Justin Elliott and Theodoric Meyer ProPublica Last week saw revelations that the FBI and the National Security Agency have been collecting Americans’ phone records en masse and that the agencies have access to data from nine tech companies. But secrecy around the programs has meant even basic questions are still unanswered. Here’s what we…