The Agent-in-Charge may have known something was amiss…
but someone at the top must have told him that his surveillance photos were inconclusive.
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Did the FBI Flub a Major Terror Investigation?
April 06, 2007 10:48 AM
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Vic Walter and Justin Rood Report:
FBI agents downplayed evidence of burgeoning cooperation between a domestic white supremacist group and an Islamic terrorist supporter, documents reviewed by ABC News show.
By curtailing its undercover investigation of the two groups, the bureau lost a “golden opportunity” to infiltrate a potentially deadly union between two violent radical organizations, according to a former FBI agent involved with the case.
The document reviewed by ABC News contained several redacted excerpts of a 157-page FBI transcript from a secret recording on Jan. 23, 2002 between a known Islamic terrorist supporter and an established member of a white supremacist group in Florida. It shows the two men discussed killing Jews and journalists, praised Hitler and Palestinian suicide bombing efforts in Israel and discussed general ways the two men could work together by using front companies and sharing resources.
“[T]he enemy of my enemy is my friend,” the Islamic terrorist supporter said to the white supremacist at the 2002 meeting, according to the transcript, which was recently obtained from the FBI and entered into congressional testimony by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa.
“That’s where we’re comin’ from,” the supremacist responded.
“Anybody that’s willing to…to shoot a Jew or to hit a Jew is my friend. Automatically,” the transcript shows the Islamic terrorist supporter saying in response.
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Images: (hat) wavecaps.com; (flag) 9stores.com;(record) ansers.com;(guy with bombs) wfb-bodyguards.com;
Please find the entire piece at the ABC Blotter.