Monday, July 18, 2016
28
Decided to read the 28 pages. The contents don't strike me as new or interesting. What's interesting is the ABSENT info.
28 says that FBI was not focusing on Saudi connections before 9/11. Not true. FBI agents were watching plenty of Saudis who appeared to be working with Osama. The San Diego connection has been discussed thoroughly before.
28 draws specific connections to Saudi intel officers. Okay. What about US intel officers? Saudi is our "ally", which means Saudi intel, US intel, and Israeli intel often work together.
Interesting sentence: A representative of the FBI's redacted testified in closed hearings that prior to 9/11 the FBI "received no reporting from any member of the Intelligence Community" that there is a
redacted presence in the US.
When you "receive no reporting" from intel, you're saying that the item "not reported" is true.
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Start with two simple facts.
1. Sheikh Osama was a CIA asset. That's how he became powerful and militarized.
2. The bin Laden family is important in Saudi. They have lots of government connections because Saudi, like USA, is an oligarchy.
From those two facts, you would expect a full story about Osama-related activities to mention lots of US intel connections and lots of Saudi government connections.
This report mentions the latter. The former may be in the redactions, but I doubt it. The sentences don't read that way.
Add the jaunty assurance from current Saudi officials that this is nothing to worry about.
Reasonable conclusion: These pages are a distraction, a "look over there!"
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