Comments on: FBI mishandled terror investigation

By: ML

ML — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:54:09 +0000

Please read the piece posted at my blog at http://vocct.blogspot.com entitled “Empire Builders” that was written by a British expert.

By: 9/11 whistleblowers ignored, retaliated against - Homeland Stupidity

9/11 whistleblowers ignored, retaliated against - Homeland Stupidity — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:10:44 +0000

[...] Mike German, Special Agent, Counterterrorism; FBI — Mr. German served sixteen years as an FBI Special Agent and is one of the rare agents credited with actually having prevented acts of terrorism before it became the FBI’s number one priority. He contacted the Commission in the spring of 2004, but did not receive a response. In 2002 he reported gross mismanagement in a post-9/11 counterterrorism investigation, which included serious violations of FBI policy and federal law. Mr. German contacted the 9/11 Commission during its investigation and requested that he be given an interview session in order to provide them with certain domestic counterterrorism investigations that he’d pursued. According to Mr. German there were links between certain domestic and international counterterrorism related to the September 11 attacks. The 9/11 Commissioners refused to acknowledge his request and never interviewed him. [...]

By: Protection for national security whistleblowers still needed - Homeland Stupidity

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:02:21 +0000

[...] The DOJ IG eventually admitted that one supervisor retaliated against German, but covered up its own role, he said. [...]

By: Give up your freedom for a false sense of security - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:20:24 +0000

[...] In the last year, we found out that the FBI has retaliated against whistleblowers reporting botched terror investigations; routinely collects data on innocent people, keeps it forever, and shares it with other federal agencies; conducted improper and unlawful surveillance, sometimes for years at a time; declared war on pornography (the perfectly legal kind); and monitored political activist groups, falsely labeling them terrorists. [...]