LA Times on blocked investigation

[k-robjoe]

"WASHINGTON — A chilling new detail of U.S. intelligence failures emerged Thursday, when the Justice Department disclosed that about 20 months before the Sept. 11 attacks, a CIA official had blocked a memo intended to alert the FBI that two known Al Qaeda operatives had entered the country.

The two men were among the 19 hijackers who crashed airliners into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.

If the FBI had received the official communique from the CIA's special Osama bin Laden unit when it was ready for transmittal in January 2000, its agents likely could have tracked down the men, according to U.S. intelligence officials familiar with a newly declassified report of the Justice Department's inspector general."

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-na-terror10jun10,1,2411329.story

[John Doe II]

1. Thanks

and now the big question:
What happened to the CIA official?

Was he promoted or was he maybe ... promoted?
:argh:

[philb]

2. this was small tip of a big iceburg

why haven't they dealt with the iceburg?
such as
www.flcv.com/warnings.html

they were deluged with a huge amount of explicit warnings; yet they deny they had seen any of the warnings and the media apparently is going to allow them to get away with denying the iceburg exist.
But the Media surely knows about the iceburg.
So why don't they cover it??