In writing her 13 page letter directed to Robert Mueller, Director of the FBI, the twenty one year FBI veteran Coleen Rowley had to invoke the whistle blower legislation in order to protect her professional career and her family.

In this letter, Rowley accuses the FBI headquarters in Washington of corrupting her request for surveillance and search warrants of terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, charged the FBI of mishandling relevant information on terrorism, and charged the FBI of incompetence as top FBI bureaucrats are more concerned with their promotion than doing their job in fighting the threats posed by terrorism. In the end, Coleen Rowley suggests that if the FBI would have done its job, the extent of the calamity of the 9-11 attacks would not have occurred.

Rowley and her colleagues at the Minneapolis office were so disappointed by the roadblocks set up by the Washington headquarters that they began to refer their concerns on terrorism to the CIA; as a consequence, prior to the 9-11 attacks, both the CIA and the FBI had shared the information related to terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui taking flight instructions on how to steer a Boeing 747 in the air and with no interest on either taking off or landing the plane.

In the meantime, at the FBI office in Phoenix, special agent Kenneth Williams wrote a memo on July 10 referring to the possibility that Al-Qaeda operatives were attending U.S. flight schools. This memo was received by John O'Neill, director of counterterrorism at the FBI office in New York, and this same memo ended up on the desk of Dave Frasca, head of the FBI's radical-fundamentalist unit in Washington.

Williams discussed his concerns of Al-Qaeda operative attending US flight schools with CIA agents as well. It is interesting to notice that all the mainstream media reports that Rowley's memo requesting surveillance and search warrants of terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, and William's memo concerning Al-Qaeda operatives attending US flight schools, both ended up on Dave Frasca's desk at the Washington headquarters. It appears to me that mainstream media is deliberately ignoring the role of FBI Special Agent John O'Neill, who later died in the attack of 9-11 at the World Trade Ceneter on his second day of his new job after resigning from the FBI in later August.

We must know that in the Summer of 2001 John O'Neill had at least two interviews with Jean-Charles Brisard, coauthor with Guillaume Dasquié of the book "Bin Laden: the hidden truth." In this book, the authors contend that the Bush administration blocked the FBI's investigation into bin Laden to protect the business relationships between the Saudi's Royal entourage and the Bush's family. And this brings the question: why the English version of this book is not available in the U.S or Canada?

An independent investigation should take place into the events preceding the 9-11 attacks, and at the same time our politicians and main stream media should place an immediate attention to the credible documented work on terrorism by Greg Palast, Jean-Charles Brisardand and Guillaume Dasquié.

References

Pertinent articles published by Ensign

US efforts to make peace summed up by 'oil' A new book alleges years of attempts to arrest Osama bin Laden being blocked by the US , one of the authors tells Lara Marlowe. November 19, 200, The Irish Times http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2001/1119/wor8.htm

Bush, oil and the Taliban. Two French authors allege that before Sept. 11, the White House put oil interests ahead of national security. By Nina Burleigh http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/02/08/forbidden/print.html

Coleen Rowley's Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller. An edited version of the agent's 13-page letter, Time Inc http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,249997,00.html

How the FBI Blew the Case The inside story of the FBI whistle-blower who accuses her bosses of ignoring warnings of 9/11. A reading of her entire memo suggests a bracing blueprint for change. BY ROMESH RATNESAR AND MICHAEL WEISSKOPF/ WASHINGTON http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,249994,00.html

Terrorist Ties Cited in Memo. FBI: Agent's July report, shared with CIA, 'was very specific. It named names,' one official says. By ERIC LICHTBLAU and JOSH MEYER, May 23, 2002 Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-000036436may23.story?coll=la%2Dheadline%20s%2Dnation

SMOKING GUN: The Evidence that May Hang G.W. Bush Part III: Osama Bin Laden Hunter O'Neill Was Killed at WTC: Was He Also a Casualty of the Bush Administration? By Cheryl Seal, May 24, 2002 http://www.unknownnews.net/cdd052402.html

SCAPEGOAT! How Bush Nearly Ruined the FBI By Cheryl Seal, May 27, 2002 http://www.unknownnews.net/cdd.html

Bush blocked Bin Laden probes by Greg Palast http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/cta/progs/newsnight/attack22.ram http://www.gregpalast.com/

This transcript (re: Bush blocked Bin Laden probes by Greg Palast) is produced from the teletext subtitles that are generated live for Newsnight. It has been checked against the programme as broadcast, however Newsnight can accept no responsibility for any factual inaccuracies. We will be happy to correct serious errors. Has someone been sitting on the FBI? 6/11/01 http://www.infowars.com/saved%20pages/Prior_Knowledge/sitting_on_theFBI.htm

George W. and Osama feeding at same trough. The Bushes and the bin Ladens go way back. First published by CounterPunch, Thursday, October 25, 2001 http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewNote.cfm?REF=1173

Bush of Arabia by DAVID CORN and PAUL LASHMAR, The Nation, March 27, 2000 http://past.thenation.com/cgi-bin/framizer.cgi?url=http://past.thenation.com/issue/000327/0327corn.shtml

QUESTIONABLE TIES. Tracking bin Laden's money flow leads back to Midland, Texas by Wayne Madsen In these Times, 12 November 2001 http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/25/feature3.shtml