> Grant wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if the data GWB _could_ have gotten at the time would have
> indicated anything about airplanes being used?
>
Here's some even better stuff:
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On August 16, 2001, Moussaoui was arrested by Harry Samit of the FBI
and INS agents in Minnesota and charged with an immigration
violation[15]. Materials itemized when he was arrested included a
laptop computer, two knives, flight manuals pertaining to Boeing's 747
aircraft, a flight simulator computer program, fighting gloves and
shin guards, and a computer disk with information about crop
dusting.[15]
Some agents worried that his flight training had violent intentions,
so the Minnesota bureau tried to get permission (sending over 70
emails in a week) to search his laptop, but they were turned down.[16]
FBI agent Coleen Rowley made an explicit request for permission to
search Moussaoui's personal rooms. This request was first denied by
her superior, Deputy General Counsel Marion "Spike" Bowman, and later
rejected based upon FISA regulations (amended after 9/11 by the USA
Patriot Act). Several further search attempts similarly failed.
FBI watchdog Sen. Chuck Grassley, Republican-Iowa, later wrote to FBI
Director Robert Mueller:
If the application for the FISA warrant had gone forward, agents
would have found information in Moussaoui's belongings that linked him
both to a major financier of the hijacking plot working out of
Germany, and to a Malaysian al-Qaida boss who had met with at least
two other hijackers while under surveillance by intelligence
officials.
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