"As I've recounted in more than 30 articles here at PJ Media over the past three years, virtually every Islamic terrorist who has conducted an attack in the West since 9/11 has already been known to authorities, which prompted me to coin the phrase "known wolf" terrorism.
Amidst the commemoration of the 16th anniversary of 9/11, it bears recalling that 9/11 itself was a "known wolf" attack, too.
The CIA had intelligence that two Saudi 9/11 hijackers were living in the United States, but they deliberately refused to share the information with the FBI.
The FBI had authority to act on such information and possibly prevent the 9/11 attacks...
In many respects, the 3,000 Americans killed on 9/11 were not only the victims of al-Qaeda terrorists, but also bureaucratic incompetence and inter-governmental turf wars.
Who among those who sat on the information were punished?
Well, none were.
The CIA sitting on critical intelligence until just days before the attack was couched in the larger excuse of "intelligence failures," and swept under the rug.
Some of what we know about the CIA's pre-9/11 intelligence about the hijackers comes from a joint congressional inquiry several years after the attacks.
The CIA sitting on critical intelligence until just days before the attack was couched in the larger excuse of "intelligence failures," and swept under the rug.
Some of what we know about the CIA's pre-9/11 intelligence about the hijackers comes from a joint congressional inquiry several years after the attacks.
But the most revealing information has come from former FBI agent Mark Rossini, who -- though an FBI agent -- was assigned to the CIA and prevented from sharing the information with his colleagues.
Two years ago, Jeff Stein at Newsweek detailed Rossini's story:
Two years ago, Jeff Stein at Newsweek detailed Rossini's story:
Read it all!Rossini is well placed to do just that. He’s been at the center of one of the enduring mysteries of 9/11: Why the CIA refused to share information with the FBI (or any other agency) about the arrival of at least two well-known Al-Qaeda operatives in the United States in 2000, even though the spy agency had been tracking them closely for years..."
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