In the summer of 2001, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent Robert Wright, a counterterrorism expert from the Chicago office, made some startling claims about the Bureau in a written statement outlining the difficulties he had doing his job. Three months before 9/11, he wrote: “The FBI has proven for the past decade it cannot identify and prevent acts of terrorism against the United States and its citizens at home and abroad. Even worse, there is virtually no effort on the part of the FBI’s International Terrorism Unit to neutralize known and suspected terrorists residing within the United States.”[1]
Judicial Watch pointed to a “legacy of corruption” at the FBI under Freeh, listing the espionage scandal at Los Alamos National Laboratories, as well as “Filegate, Waco, the Ruby Ridge cover-up, the Olympic bombing frame-up of Richard Jewell, [and] falsification of evidence concerning the Oklahoma City bombing.”[4]
Judicial Watch said that Director Freeh
believed he was above the law. The group went on to say that Freeh was
“a man so corrupt he destroyed the office he led, and a man so cowardly
he refuses to face the music for the illegalities he has allegedly
committed.”[5] To this was added a claim that the FBI under Freeh was
being directed by sinister yet unknown forces. “In case after case
throughout the 1990′s, the FBI seems to have tailored its investigative
efforts to fit somebody’s pre-arranged script. The question is, who
wrote that script — and why?”
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