From Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de Wed Oct 3 13:15:32 2001 From: Eugene Leitl To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: IP: Newsweek: FBI had one hijacker before Sept 11th and Justice DeptBumbled (fwd) Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 13:15:32 +0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1311852840665459066==" --===============1311852840665459066== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit -- Eugen* Leitl leitl ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO: N48 04'14.8'' E11 36'41.2'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 12:59:34 -0400 From: David Farber Reply-To: farber(a)cis.upenn.edu To: ip-sub-1(a)majordomo.pobox.com Subject: IP: Newsweek: FBI had one hijacker before Sept 11th and Justice Dept Bumbled >Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 09:44:40 -0700 >From: "Robert J. Berger" > >{The FBI and the Justice Dept had tools before Sept 11 and didn't use >them. They don't need more ways to errode our civil liberties, they need >to be competent} > >** Access Denied ** >FBI agents in Minneapolis weren't given approval to search terrorist >suspect's hard drive by the Justice Department. If 'two and two' were put >together could hijackings have been stopped, asks one investigator. A Web >exclusive by Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman > >http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_email.asp?/news/636610.asp > >Oct. 1 — Top Justice Department and FBI officials turned down a request >by Minneapolis FBI agents early last month for a special >counterintelligence surveillance warrant on a suspected Islamic terrorist >who officials now believe may have been part of the Sept. 11 plot to >attack the World Trade Center and Pentagon, NEWSWEEK has learned. > >-- For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/ --===============1311852840665459066==--