-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ 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 <dave@farber.net> Reply-To: farber@cis.upenn.edu To: ip-sub-1@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" <rberger@ultradevices.com>

{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.

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