FBI inspector general’s report: more evidence of [9/11] complicity

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I've noted the source - World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org.

Still, the article is long and apparently quite informative about what seems a major report. Having had a brief look, it seems there's some truth to the assertion in paragraph two that coverage elsewhere has been superficial.

FBI inspector general’s report: more evidence of government complicity in 9/11 attacks

By Patrick Martin,
World Socialist Web Site (www.wsws.org)
15 June 2005

A report released June 9 by the FBI’s Office of the Inspector General raises new questions about the role of the US government in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The internal FBI study provides several important revelations about how US intelligence agencies ignored and even suppressed warnings in the period leading up to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that killed nearly 3,000 people.

Press accounts published within hours of the report’s release gave a very distorted picture of the document, which runs to more than 400 pages. No follow-up reports, based on a thorough study of the text, have yet appeared in the mass media.

The initial media commentary invariably voiced the now-standard claim that the FBI and CIA were guilty of a “failure to connect the dots,” due to bureaucratic lethargy, individual incompetence, inter-agency rivalries, even poorly performing software systems. This presentation of events is utterly unserious.

The US intelligence apparatus is the most powerful instrument for spying in the world, not a group of Keystone Cops. If it ignored warnings and suppressed information, a legitimate presumption is that it did so willfully. The question must be posed: did one or more agencies or high-level officials provide protection for known Al Qaeda associates who ultimately participated in the hijack-bombings?

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It's a very long and detailed article. Click on the link for the whole deal.