Wednesday, June 13, 2007
What Coleen Rowley Really Said
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Coleen Rowley’s{1} letter does not support a government conspiracy; i.e. 9/11-was-an-inside-job theory. She rhetorically asked, “Why would an FBI agent(s) deliberately sabotage a case? (I know I shouldn't be flippant about this, but jokes were actually made that the key FBIHQ personnel had to be spies or moles, like Robert Hansen, who were actually working for Osama bin Ladin to have so undercut Minneapolis' effort.)” She actually proposed an answer which corresponds to Peter Lance’s thesis{2}:
“Our best real guess, however, is that, in most cases avoidance of all ‘unnecessary’ actions/decisions by FBIHQ managers (and maybe to some extent field managers as well) has, in recent years, been seen as the safest FBI career course. Numerous high-ranking FBI officials who have made decisions or have taken actions which, in hindsight, turned out to be mistaken or just turned out badly (i.e. Ruby Ridge, Waco, etc.) have seen their careers plummet and end. This has in turn resulted in a climate of fear which has chilled aggressive FBI law enforcement action/decisions. In a large hierarchal bureaucracy such as the FBI, with the requirement for numerous superiors approvals/oversight, the premium on career-enhancement, and interjecting a chilling factor brought on by recent extreme public and congressional criticism/oversight, and I think you will see at least the makings of the most likely explanation. Another factor not to be underestimated probably explains the SSA and other FBIHQ personnel's reluctance to act. And so far, I have heard no FBI official even allude to this problem-- which is that FBI Headquarters is staffed with a number of short term careerists* who, like the SSA in question, must only serve an 18 month-just-time-to-get-your-ticket-punched minimum. It's no wonder why very little expertise can be acquired by a Headquarters unit! (And no wonder why FBIHQ is mired in mediocrity! -- that maybe a little strong, but it would definitely be fair to say that there is unevenness in competency among Headquarters personnel.) (It's also a well known fact that the FBI Agents Association has complained for years about the disincentives facing those entering the FBI management career path which results in very few of the FBI's best and brightest choosing to go into management. Instead the ranks of FBI management are filled with many who were failures as street agents. Along these lines, let me ask the question, why has it suddenly become necessary for the Director to "handpick" the FBI management?) It's quite conceivable that many of the HQ personnel who so vigorously disputed Moussaoui's ability/predisposition to fly a plane into a building were simply unaware of all the various incidents and reports worldwide of Al Qaeda terrorists attempting or plotting to do so.”
{1} I commend Coleen Rowley as a whistleblower because she is very level-headed.
{2} In April I bought Peter Lance’s Triple Cross. Lance, who was won five Emmys, is a gifted writer and analyst and you can tell by reading his work that he is a very scrupulous researcher, though I have some disagreements with him. I also have the first book in his trilogy, 1000 Years for Revenge; while Triple Cross focuses on the Ali Mohamed (a modern-day Judas Iscariot), the former book tells the story of the twisted Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, a.k.a. Abdul Basit Karim, who attempted to murder 250,000 people with his 1993 terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center (seven people died, including an unborn child; R.I.P.). I am a maverick in that I defy—based on overlooked and to the best of my knowledge (I am an intellectually honest person) unrefuted evidence--the conventional, indeed, nearly universal wisdom that Iraq had no ties with Yousef; see http://thebananarepublican.blogspot.com/2007/05/ramzi-yousef-was-iraqi-agent.html. That is beyond the scope of this blog (if you wish to respond to my data please do it on my other blog; thanks!), the purpose of which is to debunk loony, baseless arguments that the American government perpetrated 9/11. But I know that Yousef is the same person as Karim, and Harvard alumnus Dr. Laurie Mylroie--who has been very influential in terms of Iraq policy but who is essentially a black sheep thanks to renowned experts Peter L. Bergen, Dr. Ronan Gunaratna, Dr. Robert S. Leiken, and Daniel Benjamin—needs to publicly recant her bogus belief that Karim was murdered and Yousef stole his identity.
JUNE 21, 2007 UPDATE: Read my "Rejoinder on Iraq and Al Qaeda" @ http://thebananarepublican.blogspot.com/2007/06/rejoinder-on-iraq-and-al-qaeda.html.
Labels: Coleen Rowley, Cover-Up, FBI, Foreknowledge, Obstruction of Justice, Quote Mining, Zacarias Moussaoui
