Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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Timeline - What if ... ?

And here, a central question the 9-11 Commission should be asking Louis Freeh and the FBI -- why was the request for resources to track down and haul in Almidhar and Alhazmi (2 of the hijackers), made by FBI field agents DENIED.

WHO denied the requests and WHY?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/could/

"Finally, on Aug. 23, 2001, the CIA sent an urgent memo to the New York FBI office seeking help in tracking down Almidhar and Alhazmi. At long last, the significance of the information in its files seems to have dawned on the agency. A quick check of hotels listed by the terrorists as places of residence on their travel entry cards came up empty. One New York FBI agent testified before Congress in September 2002 that he had requested use of "full criminal investigative resources" to find Almidhar. But headquarters denied his request. The reason given was that Almidhar was not under criminal investigation, and headquarters cited the wall between prosecution and intelligence as posing a problem. The agent's e-mail response to FBI headquarters, dated Aug. 29, 2001, was that "Someday someone will die and the public will not understand why we were not more effective and throwing every resource we had at certain problems."

Timeline:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/etc/cron.html

Connecting the dots:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/etc/connect.html
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