Washington DC – An FBI whistleblower alleges that FBI headquarters rewrote Minneapolis agents’ pre-9/11 request for surveillance and search warrants for terrorism defendant Zacarias Moussaoui and removed important information before rejecting them, government officials said Friday.
Agent Coleen Rowley wrote that the Minneapolis agents became so frustrated that they began to joke that FBI headquarters was becoming an ‘unwitting accomplice’ to Osama bin Laden’s efforts to attack the United States, the officials said. Associated Press
The FBI is America's most powerful police force. An elite team of special agents ... Its tactics are classified. America’s Book of Secrets: The FBI s1e8, History 2012
Tactical Operations Division: these units include hostage rescue and crisis negotiation teams. ibid.
For twenty-two years Hanssen had secretly supplied the Soviet Union and later Russia with sensitive information. ibid.
There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why. Bobby Seale
The FBI has always supported big business and big government. Leonard Peltier
Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them. Ridley Scott
Also, with information having just come out at the time about J Edgar Hoover's electronic surveillance of Dr King, it gave greater weight to the statements of those persons who were alleging involvement of the FBI. Louis Stokes
‘If Hoover can solve a big brand-named kidnapping [$200,000] like this, it will be a huge boost for the FBI. Natural Born Outlaws s1e2, AHC 2015
Kelly was our first big scalp. ibid. investigator
September 11: 3,025 murdered: one of them knew it was going to happen. Frontline: The Man Who Knew, PBS 2002
His name was John O’Neill and long before the world knew about Osama bin Laden, FBI agent O’Neill was obsessed with him. He warned of al-Qaeda, he warned of a threat to the United States, but people at FBI headquarters thought John O’Neill was too much of a maverick and they stopped listening to him. Last summer O’Neill left the FBI and took a new job as head of security at the World Trade Centre. ibid.
O’Neill had made his reputation investigating white collar crime, drug rings and abortion clinic bombings. ibid.
O’Neill began a campaign within the FBI to sound the [bin Laden] alarm. ibid.
He had come to believe al-Qaeda had infiltrated the United States … He could not convince headquarters they were in the United States. ibid.
J Edgar Hoover, legendary head of the FBI, for 48 years he ruled the Bureau with an iron fist and a racist heart. American Gangster s3e5: J Edgar Hoover, BET 2008
J Edgar Hoover is not your typical American gangster. He and his crew committed their crimes and shielded their racial agenda under cover of law. ibid.
‘He was as close to pathological about Dr King as one could find.’ ibid. Dr James Turner
The FBI did little to stop the violence. ibid.
The FBI says it has thwarted a terror plot: Federal investigators says the suspects are four men with a shared hatred for America. The Newburgh Sting, television news, Sky Atlantic 2017
In the Spring of 2008 the FBI sends an undercover informant to Newburgh, New York, on a mission to find terrorists. ibid. caption
I can make you $250,000. ibid. Hussain
Nobody is armed; nobody has a bomb. ibid. defence
The Newburgh Four lost on appeal. They are taking their case to the United States Supreme Court. ibid.
In the aftermath of 9/11, the FBI began building a massive nationwide network of informants. In 2003 the FBI recruited a confidential informant, Anna, and sent her undercover into political gatherings and protests around the country. She was told to report any ‘potentially illegal activity’ to her FBI handlers. She was 17. Field of Vision: Eric & Anna, 2015