Comments on: James Bamford

By: NSA Deputy Director: What Al-Qaeda Meeting? « History Commons Groups

NSA Deputy Director: What Al-Qaeda Meeting? « History Commons Groups — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:38:38 +0000

[...] a 2008 radio interview with Scott Horton, author James Bamford commented: … before 9/11 Scheuer knew how important the house [the [...]

By: How Are the NSA, Israel, Varint, and the Collection of All American Data Connected?

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:03:56 +0000

[...] interview with James Bamford. 31m50s into the interview has some discussion about domestic [...]

By: The Spy Factory « Liberty Forged

The Spy Factory « Liberty Forged — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:25:41 +0000

[...] to James Bamford interviewed by Scott Horton: [from antiwar.com] James Bamford, author of The Puzzle Palace, Body of Secrets, A Pretext for War [...]

By: Janie

Janie — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:18:24 +0000

The audio is not working past the initial 2 minutes.

By: James

James — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:04:44 +0000

Why anyone would trust anything the NSA, CIA, or FBI said is beyond me. How long did it take to find out about the Maine, Pearl Harbor, Viet Nam or any other national tragedy?

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:24:38 +0000

CIA officials cannot have it both ways, either they wanted to prevent an attack or they didn’t. Withholding intel from the FBI doesn’t sound like the conduct of an agency acting in good faith. We are told Tenet and Rich B. (chief of Alec Station at the time) gave Rice an urgent briefing on July 10. OTOH, at the very same time CIA was sitting on crucial intel. That contradiction is not acceptable. Even after the CIA finally shared the intel in late August there were still bizarre issues at the FBI ITOS. Alec Station deputy chief Tom Wilshire had been transferred to the FBI at this point. He was evidently working with FBI ITOS chief Michael Rolince. During this time, FBI UBLU agent Dina Corsi obstructed the Cole investigators from heading the search for al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar. She knew these two al Qaeda operatives were linked to a key Cole plotter (Khaled Bin Attash) but withheld this information. This is why the search was given to a rookie intel side agent who had little success.

I don’t understand why people are branded “conspiracy nuts” for not going along with garbage excuses. If the intelligence community is above the law then we should call the US a police state.

By: Chris Lester

Chris Lester — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:46:06 +0000

At least Israel gets a mention, I guess that’s something. And what was that about Paul O’Neill? He was killed in the attack that he caused? Was he Irish-American al-Qaeda?

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:13:28 +0000

9/11 is heading in the direction of the JFK issue; so many conspiracy theories makes it impossible to definitively believe anything.