One of our resident professional deniers has often asked the question
"is the FBI lying?", usually to defend the FBI's unsupported public claim that the agency investigated for explosives at GZ following 9/11. Based on a recent revelation by the FBI itself, the correct question should be
"does the FBI ever tell the truth?".
FBI denounces own report linking Sarasota family to 9/11
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In a fresh report to Congress, the FBI now discredits its own field agent in charge of Southwest Florida for seemingly implicating a Saudi family that owned and occupied a home in Prestancia during the months leading up to the 9/11 attacks.
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The federal agency now says that the FBI’s own secret report of April 16, 2002 — a key document in the news reports — “was poorly written and wholly unsubstantiated.”
“When questioned later by others in the FBI, the special agent who wrote the EC (Electronic Communication) was unable to provide any basis for the contents of the document or explain why he wrote it as he did,” according to the report, titled “The FBI: Protecting the Homeland in the 21st Century.”
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The FBI documents were only revealed 10 years after the fact through repeated Freedom of Information Act requests by Dan Christensen, a veteran South Florida reporter who founded the what is now called the Florida Bulldog news organization.
The FBI report to Congress comes during a lengthy review of the agency’s complete 9/11 Southwest Florida archives by a federal judge in Fort Lauderdale.
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“This seems to be an FBI-orchestrated event here, that was overseen by the agency,” Christensen said. “It was done essentially in secret, because there were no public hearings and nobody knew about it.”
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The agency’s decision to discredit its own work in Sarasota and the censored chapter are connected, Graham told the Herald-Tribune on Thursday.
“While I cannot talk about the details of the 28-page report since it is classified, I can say they are devoted to who funded the hijackers while they were in the United States, and point a strong finger at Saudi Arabia as being the primary source,” Graham said.
“To that extent, the two are connected,” the former Florida governor said. “They go to whether you believe the hijackers acted alone or had support.”
The Freedom of Information Act court case, which started in September 2012, is being heard by U.S. District Court Judge William J. Zloch in Fort Lauderdale. Although ongoing, the last docket entry was on June 30, nine months ago.
Judge Zloch, a former University of Notre Dame quarterback who was nominated to the bench by President Ronald Reagan, now has access to about 80,000 pages of documents, many of which are classified as secret, that originally included the 84 pages that the FBI has gradually dribbled out to the plaintiffs in the case.
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The April 2002 electronic memo is just one document out of 84 pages that the FBI has released to Christensen since he began his federal court case. Those pages equate to about a tenth of 1 percent of the 80,000 secret pages now being reviewed by Judge Zloch.
The pages are locked up, one chunk at a time, in a specially installed safe in the federal courthouse. According to court documents, Judge Zloch is only allowed to have part of them in his possession at any one time. He has to give back the pages he has read to get more, so that those on hand fit into the safe.
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“When did they become aware of the unreliablitiy of this particular agent?” Graham asked. “Since they became aware of it, what have they done to commence a second review of activities in Sarasota with an agent or agents in whom they invest more confidence?”
FBI denounces own report linking Sarasota family to 9/11 | HeraldTribune.com
Of note here is that the FBI originally lied under oath and claimed there were 24 boxes of documents, then disclosed there were actually 27 boxes.
Document: 27 boxes of new secret 9/11 docs found in Florida, Judge trying to get them from FBI
