Ex-FBI whistleblower Robert Wright will speak again

posted by ewing2001 on Friday May 30, @06:55PM

FBI Agent Speaks Out on New FBI Failures to Combat Terror

US Newswire

"... Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, said today that its client, Special Agent Robert G. Wright, Jr., of the Chicago Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will hold a press conference on Monday, June 2 at 9:30 a.m. in the West Room of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

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Special Agent Wright will discuss past and continuing failures of the Department of Justice and the FBI in the so-called, "War on Terror." Special Agent Wright will also discuss efforts by the senior leadership of the FBI to prevent him from telling the truth to the American public.

Special Agent Wright is currently assigned as a field agent working on counter-terrorism cases. He is also represented by David Schippers, Esq., of Schippers & Bailey of Chicago, Ill..."

Sources on Robert Wright, who tried to warn the FBI on a pending attack on America a few weeks before Sep11th:

Tearful FBI Agent Apologizes To Sept. 11 Families and Victims

CNS News
"...In a memorandum written 91 days before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, an FBI agent warned that Americans would die as a result of the bureau's failure to adequately pursue investigations of terrorists living in the country...."

Bloomberg News

FBI Agent Says He's Prevented From Exposing Agency (Update1)

Washington, May 30, 2002 (Bloomberg) --

"...An FBI agent in Chicago who has written an unpublished book attacking the agency's counterterrorist activities said the bureau is preventing him from airing his criticisms..."

from "911Skeptics Unite -the encyclopedia"

Robert Wright

In Fall 2001, ex-FBI agent Robert Wright started to accuse the US Justice Department,
that they had blocked his early warnings (->) on a pending attack on the United States.

Already in Summer 2001, Wright asked former Top Prosecutor David Schippers (Chicago attorney who was the House Republicans' counsel during President Bill Clinton's impeachment) for help,
who himself tried to reach John Ashcroft (->) for weeks- without any success.

In March 2002, Robert Wright, in the meantime supported by watchgroup Judicial Watch (->),
gave a press conference on C|Span, announcing a lawsuit.

Source:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/1567.shtml

However his case had been ignored in the US Congress and Mainstream Press.

Finally, in May 2002, when other early warnings of FBI agents became popular (Phoenix-Memo, Kenneth Williams ->, Colleen Rowley->), the Washington Post wrote about Wrights lawsuit against the FBI.

Wright accused the FBI of violating his First Amendment rights by prohibiting him from making his complaints public.

He had written a 500-page manuscript titled "Fatal Betrayals of the Intelligence Mission",
which he tried to release as a book in October 2001.

The FBI blocked the release of this book.

Special Agent Wright was already taken off a Hamas investigation in August 1999.

Wright's lawsuit was filed one day after the FBI was chastised by US Congress for failing to more aggressively look into a July 2001 recommendation from its Phoenix field office that U.S. aviation schools should be canvassed for Middle Eastern men seeking flight training.

Schippers, his lawyer, later leaked to the press, that Wright was even one of 10 FBI agents,
who knew time and place of the pending attacks on Twin Towers and Pentagon.

On September 11th, 2002, Judicial Watch released updates on the case of Robert Wright.

Now it was reported, that Wright was the only FBI agent to seize terrorist funds (over $1.4 million) from U.S.-based Middle Eastern terrorists using federal civil forfeiture statutes, prior to the September 11th attacks.

The original source of the funds was Yassin Kadi (->), a Saudi businessman,
who was reportedly a financier of Osama bin Laden.

Wright pointed to recent misconduct and falsifications of wiretap warrant applications by FBI agents (signed-off by the former FBI Director, Louis Freeh ->) to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court.

Prior to September 11th, SA Wright alleged FBI intelligence agents lied and hid vital records from criminal agents for the purpose of obstructing his criminal investigation of the terrorists in order to protect their “subjects,” and prolong their intelligence operations.

Wrights accusations sounded similar like of John O'Neill (->), who dramatically died im the Twin Towers, after he resigned from his job at the FBI only a few weeks before.

Wright continued to claim, that ITU’s (International Terrorism Unit) incompetence and repeated failures to support criminal investigations contributed directly to the "deaths of five Americans".
The FBI continued to illegally refuse the release of SA Wright’s 500 page manuscript, Fatal Betrayals of the Intelligence Mission.

In fact, the FBI refused to turn the manuscript over to Sen. Richard C. Shelby, Vice Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Commitee, charged with investigating the FBI’s intelligence failures.

Source:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/printer_2469.shtml

Judicial Watch released parts of Wrights book in "Fatal Neglect - A Judicial Watch Publication"
http://www.judicialwatch.org/store/fatalneglect.shtml

FOX TV on Wright:
Only on Fox News’ “Fox Wire” with Rita Cosby 10:00 p.m. ET, Saturday, June 1st

"FBI Whistleblower, Special Agent Robert Wright reveals rampant FBI negligence and obstruction of counter terrorism criminal investigations involving Hamas & al-Qaida that could have prevented the September 11th terrorist attacks"

In March 2003, NY POST-columnist Daniel Pipes (->) wrote on on Robert Wright and his sabotaged investigation on Gamal Abdel-Hafiz (BMI Inc.) and asked: "When will the FBI permit Wright to speak freely about these matters?"
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/70708.htm

http://www.local6.com/sh/news/stories/nat-news-224355120030602-150616.html

FBI Agents Outline Bureau's Antiterror Failures

WASHINGTON --

"...Current and former FBI agents say the bureau's failure to pursue suspected terrorists has resulted in American deaths.

Special Agent Robert Wright and former special agent John Vincent, who worked together in the Chicago FBI office, offered details of their allegations at a Washington, D.C., news conference.

Wright says the FBI's international terrorism unit refused to pursue a suspect he had linked to funding for terrorism. The same suspect was identified after the Sept. 11 attacks four years later as a financier for Osama bin Laden.

Wright charges that intelligence agents deliberately shield suspects from prosecution for "job security," allowing them to continue their investigations and avoid new work.

The agents claim the FBI has tried to cover up its failures by falsely claiming the information was classified..."

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http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1304099

FBI agents detail agency's antiterrorism failures

Washington-AP --

"...Current and former FBI agents say the agency's failure to pursue suspected terrorists has resulted in American deaths..."

http://www.msnbc.com/news/921213.asp

FBI probes Hamas presence in U.S.

Agent charges investigation of group has been mishandled

"...NBC's Lisa Myers reports on the search for Hamas -- its supporters... ...In an interview with NBC, FBI counterterrorism agent Robert Wright charges the FBI could have moved against Hamas five years ago. Instead, he says, it shut down his criminal investigation in favor of gathering more intelligence. "The Hamas criminal enterprise has been flourishing since then," says Wright. "These guys are still operating strong today because we're doing absolutely nothing about it. and operatives in the United States..."

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