Judicial Watch on 9-11 Commission's Findings: Been There, Said That
by Bill Fancher
April 21, 2004
(AgapePress) - The 9-11 Commission hearings have revealed problems with the lack of information sharing within the intelligence community -- in particular, problems inside the FBI's Counter-terrorism Division. One group in the nation's capital says it has been trying to point that out for years.The public-interest law firm Judicial Watch has been screaming about the FBI failures for years. The firm's president, Tom Fitton, says the group began talking about these problems when it took on special agent Robert Wright as a client.
"No, it isn't new. We covered it in our book Fatal Neglect," he explains. "Bob Wright has covered it in several press conferences he held which had been covered on CSPAN. There isn't much new here under the sun, unfortunately."
According to Fitton, the problems his group has been pointing out since 9-11 -- largely ignored by the mainstream media -- apparently are not being addressed. "The FBI is still charged with counter-terrorism and protecting people in that regard, and we think they're woefully inadequate," he says.
"It's only by the grace of God that another terrorist attack hasn't happened in many respects, because the FBI is still bureaucratically incapable of dealing with the threats as they come."
Agent Wright worked in the Counter-terrorism Division and was a "whistleblower," pointing out the failures that contributed to the events of September 11, 2001. All along the way, the Bureau has tried to silence and punish him, and even threatened him and Judicial Watch. Consequently, the revelations of the 9-11 Commission are old news to Judicial Watch.
