Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI employee says she saw angels guarding the Pennsylvania site where a hijacked airliner crashed during the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the Associated Press reports. Lillie Leonardi, a community affairs coordinator, was a liaison between law enforcement and the victims of the United Airlines Flight 93 crash when she arrived…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It appears the 9/11 conspiracy theories are far from over. MSNBC reports that ex-Florida Sen. Bob Graham, who co-chaired Congress’ Joint Inquiry into the 9/11 terrorist attacks, says he has read two classified FBI documents that suggest the bureau may not have been accurate when it stated publicly that there was…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Transportation Security Administration is still not scanning 100 percent of the parcels on inbound international flights, and Congress wants to know why. The website NextGov.com reports that it appears TSA will miss a deadline to scan all parcels on overseas planes for the second time, and House Democrats have sent a…
By Scott Shane New York Times WASHINGTON — In a new memoir, a former F.B.I. agent who tracked Al Qaeda before and after the Sept. 11 attacks paints a devastating picture of rivalry and dysfunction inside the government’s counterterrorism agencies. The book describes missed opportunities to defuse the 2001 plot, and argues that other attacks…
Also read AP Story: TSA Chief Optimistic About Everything But Terror By Tim Evans Indianapolis Star Anderson native John Pistole was an FBI agent performing routine audits of the agency’s local offices when the terrorists attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. Counterterrorism wasn’t exactly Pistole’s area of expertise. Nonetheless, he was quickly pulled into…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com We all remember that eerie day — Sept. 11, 2001 — when terrorists took a routine Tuesday and shook it so hard and turned it upside down and changed forever the way we travel and think about security and radical movements abroad. To bring back some vivid memories, the FBI has…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Obama administration appears to be paving the way to prosecute 9/11 suspected terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others in a military tribunal. CNN reported that the Defense Department on Tuesday refiled charges against the men so they can be prosecuted in a military court in the Guantanamo…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI agents at the Washington Field Office hardly needed anything to remind them of the devastating aftermath of 9/11, and the plane crash at the Pentagon that killed 184 folks. Nonetheless, it was nice gesture Wednesday when the office was presented with an 800-pound limestone block recovered from the…
