This reply to a post on this latest FBI screwed up bust
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5708050&mesg_id=5708603 leads to this post re the agent, one Special Agent Robert Fuller
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x450401Leads to:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/05/the_fbi_agent_w.php Which leads one to believe Fuller is a fuck up or possibly borderline traitor
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Fuller was also on the team that was tasked to track down two of the 9/11 hijackers in August, 2001, prior to the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
The New York Observer reported that after the CIA told the FBI that the two hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hamzi were in the United States, Fuller was assigned to bring them into custody on Aug. 23, 2001, 19 days prior to the attacks.
A fellow agent, the Observer reported, had labeled the lead "routine," meaning that Fuller had 30 days to catch them. Fuller went through local databases, checked Mihdhar's New York hotel and then let it drop. Standard procedure, the papers said, held that he also should have search commercial databases, but he did not.
He later claimed that he consulted ChoicePoint database on Sept. 4 or 5, but the 9/11 Commission later concluded that the FBI did not consult that database until after the attacks, the newspaper said.
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