A former FBI special agent said he had information that could have prevented the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks but he said the CIA prevented him from taking the evidence to FBI headquarters, Newsweek reports. Mark Rossini, who lost his job in 2008 for showing confidential FBI documents to actress Linda Fiorentino to help her…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The first – and maybe only – trial of those accused of orchestrating and financing the Sept. 11 attacks has hit yet another legal snag that could delay the case for years. The Los Angeles Times reports that the 9/11 conspiracy case against five suspects at Guantanamo Bay is mired in controversy…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI had direct contact with Osama bin Laden in 1993 and learned that he was trying to finance terrorist attacks inside the U.S., according to the Washington Times. The information about the al Qaeda leader quietly emerged from an employment dispute case involving an FBI agent in 2010 and escaped the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com With two days until the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the federal government is on high alert but has found no credible or detailed information about an imminent threat, The Associated Press reports. Concerns of an attack on Western targets will remain high this week as federal authorities recall…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Outgoing FBI Director Robert S Mueller III never imagined that his bureau would be consumed with the fight on terror. After all, Mueller started his job as director a week before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “I love prosecuting cases, and I love doing investigations, particularly homicide investigations and the like,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Top security officials said Tuesday they disrupted more than 50 terrorist plots using government surveillance, The New York Times reports. Trying to fend off fierce criticism about the recent disclosure of government surveillance, national security officers told the House Intelligence Committee that investigators used the private information to prevent terrorist attacks. One…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The head of the FBI’s New York office during the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks will share his horrifying experience of being at ground zero and watching the towers fall at an event in Florida, the Palm Beach Post reports. Barry Mawn plans to also talk about the aftermath of the attack at…
