Collen Rowley the FBI agent mentioned by 9/11 Commission member Jamie Gorlick as having been thwarted in her attempt to expose Moussaoui before 9/11 was one of three "Women of the Year" for Time magazine 2002.
Well, get a load of this. The person responsible for blocking Rowley's info was also given an award. She was given an "exceptional performance" award by the Bush administration.
A nasty political sequel is being played out before our eyes. "The Bureaucracy Strikes Back" is the story flowing from the courageous saga of Minneapolis FBI agent Coleen Rowley, who blew the whistle on higher-ups in the FBI's bureaucracy.
Just seven months ago she was being heralded as a national hero for daring to testify that top-level FBI officials had stymied efforts by Minneapolis agents to search records of Zacarias Moussaoui before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. A go-ahead from Washington for a search in Minneapolis might have yielded information that might have prevented the horrid attacks. A search of Moussaoui's belongings after 9/11 found clues to the plot.......
...At a quiet little ceremony earlier this month, Marion (Spike) Bowman was one of nine people in the bureau to receive an award for "exceptional performance." The award carries with it a cash bonus of 20 to 35 percent of the recipient's salary and a framed certificate signed by the president.
What does this have to do with Rowley?
Bowman heads the FBI's National Security Law Unit. That's the unit that blocked Minneapolis agents from pursuing their suspicions about Moussaoui.
Bowman received the big pats on the back (and cash) a few days before the House and Senate Intelligence committees turned in their reports of pre-Sept. 11 intelligence failures. The committees said that Minneapolis agents deserved honors for their work and that those who performed poorly should be disciplined. The National Security Law Unit was singled out by Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., for inept performance.
There were no FBI honors for the Minneapolis office. There was a big honor for the lead antagonist of the Minneapolis office. .......more.......
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3547688.htmlNot only did Bush try to impede investigations into terrorism, particularly Al Qaeda, but rewarded those who helped him.
Here is some info on Rowley:
And the FBI "Deliberately thwarted investigation" :
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/5/27/203251.shtmlThe now-infamous memo written by FBI veteran Colleen Rowley, the FBI's chief lawyer in the Minneapolis field office, to her boss, FBI Director Robert Mueller, reveals that bureau officials may have engaged in a massive cover-up to hide their malfeasance and negligence that apparently led to the events of Sept. 11.
In another sensational claim, she says that a senior bureau official continued to block the investigation of an al-Qaeda terrorist after his cohorts had made their attacks on the World Trade Center.
In Rowley's 13-page memo, she recounts how the Minneapolis agents became desperate to search the computer laptop that had been taken from the arrested "20th hijacker," Zacarias Moussaoui, as well as to conduct a more thorough search of his personal effects.
In her memo to Mueller, Rowley took exception to claims that the events of 9-11 could not have been prevented and that any argument they could have was a result of "20-20 hindsight" rationale.
In fact, Rowley says, on Sept. 11, "after the first attacks on the World Trade Center had already occurred," the Minneapolis office telephoned Washington and "the FBI Supervisory Special Agent who was the one most involved in the Moussaoui matter and who, up to that point, seemed to have been consistently, almost deliberately thwarting the Minneapolis FBI agents' efforts."
Rowley said her office was shocked when, "Even after the attacks had begun, the SSA in question was still attempting to block the search of Moussaoui's computer, characterizing the World Trade Center attacks as a mere coincidence with Minneapolis' prior suspicions about Moussaoui.".....more.....
And this is part of the all to familiar pattern of the Bush admin marginalizing "people who knew".
FBI told to back off Saudis and OBL by Bush (Palast in Guardian).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4293682,00.htmlTwo veteran FBI investigators say they were ordered to stop investigations into a suspected terror cell linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network and the Sept. 11 attacks.
In a dramatic interview with ABCNEWS, FBI special agents and partners Robert Wright and John Vincent say they were called off criminal investigations of suspected terrorists tied to the deadly bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. U.S. officials say al Qaeda was responsible for the embassy attacks and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.
"September the 11th is a direct result of the incompetence of the FBI's International Terrorism Unit. No doubt about that. Absolutely no doubt about that," Wright said. "You can't know the things I know and not go public."
More on FBI agents whistleblowers from sept. 2002:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/2469.shtml
FBI AGENT ROBERT WRIGHT SAYS FBI AGENTS ASSIGNED TO INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS CONTINUE TO PROTECT TERRORISTS FROM CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS AND PROSECUTIONS
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