IP: Newsweek: FBI had one hijacker before Sept 11th and Justice DeptBumbled (fwd)

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Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 12:59:34 -0400
From: David Farber <dave at farber.net>
Reply-To: farber at cis.upenn.edu
To: ip-sub-1 at 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 at 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.
>
><snip.
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