Thank you Jamie Gorelick On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Gruss Gott<[email protected]> wrote: > > Here's some even better stuff: > --------------- > 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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