Why Doesn’t President Trump Appoint His Own Special Counsel?

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As the Mueller Probe enters its sixteenth month, following a ten month FBI counterintelligence investigation, Congressional committees, outside groups such as Tom Fitton’s Judicial Watch and even the DOJ’s own Inspector General’s team have gathered a wealth of information of their own. There is currently more than enough evidence to support the appointment of a second Special Counsel.

The last two years have been akin to watching a polaroid photo develop in very slow motion. And right now, it’s at about the halfway point. If nothing is done, we can expect Mueller’s investigation to grind on for the second half of Trump’s first term, ever reminding American citizens that their president is under suspicion for some nameless, but sinister, act.

The likelihood that Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whose relationship with President Trump is at an all-time low, would do so is almost nonexistent.

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Yes, back in March, Sessions appointed Utah US Attorney John Huber to work with the DOJ’s Inspector General’s team, but the limitations inherent in such a step still fall far short of what are needed to combat what is emerging as the biggest political conspiracy in American history.

And, of course, the DOJ Inspector General’s (IG) team has uncovered and reported a great deal of information. The DOJ IG investigates fraud and, if applicable, can make criminal referrals. But that’s where his or her authority ends. It is still up to our cowardly Attorney General to decide whether or not to charge an individual with a crime.

Jeff Sessions, who was Trump’s earliest supporter in the Senate, has never been known for his boldness. He has become very “protective” of his DOJ colleagues during his tenure as Attorney General, hence, his reluctance (or his denial) to accuse them of wrongdoing.

Consequently, what alternatives does Trump really have? Even if he could arrange for Mueller to be ousted, the backlash would be politically disastrous for him. The same would be true if he fired Jeff Sessions or Rod Rosenstein.

As Mueller continues to investigate ten-year-old claims of tax evasion by Paul Manafort and Trump’s hush money to a porn star for a one-night-stand 12 years ago, the crimes of Trump’s accusers are starting to mount. It was alleged that a Chinese-owned company hacked Hillary’s server and inserted code that sent copies of each email, in real time, to their computer. I wrote a post about that here. We learned from Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch that the FISA Court held no hearings before issuing their warrant to surveil Carter Page. We also heard about the inconsistencies between the testimonies of Bruce Ohr, Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson and FBI attorney Lisa Page before Congress here.

But perhaps the most significant takeaways of the week came from the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel’s congressional source.

Bruce Ohr confirmed that, before the FBI submitted their first application to the FISA Court for a warrant to spy on Carter Page in October 2016, Ohr had informed them of Steele’s extraordinary hatred of then-candidate Donald Trump. The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel wrote that a “Congressional source” offered some corroborating details.

Ohr testified that, following a meeting with Christopher Steele in September 2016, he had written down some notes for his records. The notes said Steele “was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president.”

Ohr said he had verbally warned his FBI contacts that Steele had a “credibility problem alerting the bureau to Mr. Steele’s leanings and motives.” He also informed them that his wife, Nellie Ohr, was working for Fusion GPS on the dossier project.

Strassel wrote:

1.  Ohr said, moreover, that he delivered this information before the FBI’s first application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for a warrant against Trump aide Carter Page, in October 2016. Yet the FBI made no mention of this warning in the application, instead characterizing Mr. Steele as a “reliable” source.

2.  Nor does the application note that a senior Justice Department official’s spouse was contributing to the dossier and benefiting financially from a document the FBI was using in an investigation. That matters both because the FBI failed to flag the enormous conflict and because Mr. Steele’s work product potentially wasn’t entirely his own.

3.  No reference to Mr. Ohr—direct or cloaked—can be found in any of the applications for Page warrants, according to those who have seen them. This despite his more than a dozen conversations with FBI agents over the course of the probe that addressed the content in and sourcing behind the surveillance applications. I’m told Mr. Ohr made clear that these conversations variously included all the heavyweights in the FBI investigation—former lead investigator Peter Strzok, former FBI senior lawyer Lisa Page, and former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. So senior people were very aware of his role, information and conflict.

All this is what Republicans are referring to when they hint that the Ohr interview provided solid evidence that the FBI abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. “Before yesterday, we thought the FBI and DOJ had not disclosed material facts they were aware of in the FISA application. If Bruce Ohr testified truthfully, we now know that to be the case,” Rep. John Ratcliffe of Texas tweeted Wednesday. (The Justice Department declined to comment, citing an inspector-general investigation.)

Ohr also “told congressional investigators this week that while initially he reached out to the FBI, the bureau also later came looking for information about Mr. Steele.”

After the FBI learned that Steele had leaked the dossier story to the media, they fired him. However, they still wanted access to Steele’s information, so they used Ohr as a conduit.

The bottom line is that:

The FBI knew about Steele’s intense bias against Trump and they had fired him for speaking to the media, yet they still used his information as the basis for their FISA Court application where they misrepresented him as a reliable source and they “continued to seek his information.”

Steele had been working with the FBI since July 2016. Ohr reached out to the FBI several months later. Strassel wonders:

Why would Mr. Steele then go to work on a Justice Department source, and refunnel the same allegations to the bureau? The likely answer is that the Fusion crowd wanted to exert maximum pressure on the FBI to act.

And she concludes that:

The obvious answer is politics.

The evidence continues to mount that the FBI didn’t want to know about bias, or about conflicts of interest, or about the political paymasters behind the dossier—and it certainly didn’t want the surveillance court to know. It wanted to investigate Donald Trump.

The appointment of a special counsel is essential to organize all aspects of this conspiracy, all the actors, all the accomplices, and to detangle the web of the left’s deception. An exacting timeline must be prepared if anyone is to be held accountable.

Trump has been quietly allowing the scenario to play out. He has tried to remain on the sidelines for fear that his intervention would be viewed as evidence of his guilt.

But, after over two years, it doesn’t show any signs of stopping, because Mueller wants to keep the cloud of suspicion hovering over the Trump administration for as long as he can.

In the meantime, the real crimes have been committed by Hillary Clinton and by officials at the top of the Obama administration, perhaps even by Obama himself.

A special prosecutor needs to be appointed and given free access to all of the resources Mueller has had at his disposal including access to unredacted documents which DOJ and FBI officials have been so reluctant to provide. The prosecutor can take the evidence that’s already been revealed and run with it until all the corruption has been exposed and all of those who abused their power have been brought to justice. It’s time to fight back.

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felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Utah US Attorney John Huber is an OBAMA APPOINTEE who carried over.
Trump keeps getting boxed in.

John W. Huber (born 1967) is an American lawyer who has served as the United States Attorney for the District of Utah since June 2015. He was first nominated for the position by President Barack Obama in February 2015. Huber offered his resignation in March 2017 at the request of the Trump administration. However, United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions subsequently appointed Huber as interim U.S. Attorney under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act. Huber was renominated by President Donald Trump in June 2017. On August 3, 2017, he was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate to an additional four-year term as a U.S. Attorney.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Huber

Supposedly he is a good prosecutor. I have seen NO evidence of that. I think being a genuine outsider has made Trump vulnerable to BAD advice. Others who have been President have typically been governors who had a close political circle of friends to slip into key positions. Trump was at a disadvantage. Obama was an exception but when backed by SOROS, politicians were easily bought.

You know why Trump can’t do it. People will think he is railroading the outcome.

Daniel Baneck
Daniel Baneck
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Every Obama holdover should have been fired!

Voytek Gagalka
Voytek Gagalka
5 years ago

It is starting to be quite apparent now that without drastic methods nothing will be achieved. Lesson from history: Lavrentiy Beria, infamous chief of NKVD (predecessor of KGB), controlling totally that organization could not be deposed after Stalin’s death without direct high hierarchy officers of the army intervention: one could not count that NKWD would arrest its boss! Quite similarly, I don’t think that the current FBI and DOJ, discredited and rotten to the core as they are, be used to clean up that mess in the US. IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN, as it never happened in history!

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago
Reply to  Voytek Gagalka

Agree. And also investigate all links to Iranian lobbyists funding dems.

Dems were paid by Iranian lobbyists to support Nuke deal http://tinyurl.com/mcake4d

And their holdovers still support it.

Justitia Aeternus
Justitia Aeternus
5 years ago

President Trump
Can appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the criminality of Robert Mueller.
And that criminality is obvious not just when he was Director of the FBI
But also for his current conduct in seeking a crime where there is none.
Mueller is far more vulnerable than his arrogance lets him think.
Time to go after he political pig for what he is.

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
5 years ago

here here!

Vlad
Vlad
5 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

hear, hear 🙂

justmewhoelse12
justmewhoelse12
5 years ago

Very good question.

Nefarious420
Nefarious420
5 years ago

Sessions is the muckiest of Swamp Creators that Trump ran against.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Nefarious420

So disappointing…

Laurence Jarvik
Laurence Jarvik
5 years ago

That sounds like a very good idea…but who is tough enough for the job? Rudy Giuliani?

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Rudy would have been great. It’s going to be tough to find someone with stones to get it done.

Willik
Willik
5 years ago

There is no one, I repeat NO ONE, in the DOJ whom the president may trust to conduct an honest investigation.

I must include the White House council(s) in that assessment.

Daniel Baneck
Daniel Baneck
5 years ago
Reply to  Willik

His own lawyers screwed him Ty Cobb was a disaster cooperate give them everything what an idiot.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
5 years ago

Pentagon Cancels $300 Million Military Aid To Pakistan Ahead Of Pompeo Visit
http://www.rferl.org/a/pentagon-cuts-pakistan-aid-ahead-of-pompeo-dunford-visit/29466078.html
“The U.S. military says it has decided to cancel $300 million in aid to Pakistan that had been suspended due to Islamabad’s perceived lack of action against militants… President Donald Trump suspended the so-called Coalition Support Funds, along with other aid to Pakistan, at the start of the year.”

Chris Wolf
Chris Wolf
5 years ago

Trump has played his cards extremely skillfully, sticking to his knitting and giving them all the rope they need to hang themselves in the court of public opinion.
Now comes the finale, and the beginning of the end for all the deep-state coup-plotting cronies — Mueller, Clinton, Comey, Rosenstein, obama, etc, who thought they could commandeer OUR government and use it as their own — when Americans turn out in massive numbers Nov. 6 to show their gratitude and support for the Trump Revolution, Trump fires Mr Magoo and all the cards start to fall, leading to prosecutions of all the aforementioned and more.
And the Constitution of The United States works precisely as the brilliant, learned, Bible-believing Founders, with malice toward none, envisioned it, for every educated man and woman on Earth to see in wonder and awe.

Daniel Baneck
Daniel Baneck
5 years ago

Feckless Trump does nothing while the rest of the world laughs at him. Previous Presidents have appointed Special Counsels why can’t Trump?

1984  George Orwellesque
1984 George Orwellesque
5 years ago

At this point, I’d indemnify/ pardon anyone accused, indicted or convicted of any crime by Muller, including Manfort and Cohen, yes. This “is” an illegal investigation.

Bruce Ohr was protecting, whom? Sally Yates? Loretta Lynch? Susan Rice? Valerie Jarrett?

Ohr wrote that Christopher Steele, the ex-British spy who wrote the salacious dossier, was “very concerned (abt) about [former FBI Director James] Comey’s firing — afraid they will be exposed.”

A month after Donald Trump announced his intention to seek the presidency in 2015, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates blocked the Office of Inspector General (OIG) from oversight of the DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD). The OIG, Michael Horowitz, requested oversight and Sally Yates responded with a lengthy 58-page legal explanation essentially denying the request. All of the DOJ was subject to oversight, except the National Security Division.
https://www.ignet.gov/sites/default/files/files/OLC%20IG%20Act%20Opinion%20-%207-20-15%20.pdf

When was this “Witch Hunt” started? Which Government personnel were involved before the official investigation started? Who knew, what did they know and when did they know it? How early was McCain involved?

ABC: Comey compares Trump to mob boss
In an ABC promo, Stephanopoulos says Comey compared Trump to a mob boss.
The standard of predicate for an investigation is probable cause, not a comparison to a mob boss.

Jim Accosta, The foundation of his political career was built on a lie, that Barack Obama was not born in this country. And?

Former CIA Director John Brennan—who played a key role in instigating the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation and promoting the Trump–Russia collusion narrative—said in an interview with MSNBC on Aug. 28 that Ohr’s actions were known to senior FBI and DOJ officials.

“It’s my understanding that everything that Bruce Ohr did was approved and known to senior Department of Justice officials, coordinated closely with the FBI,” Brennan said.
https://www.ntd.tv/2018/08/29/rep-issa-ohr-testimony-creates-link-between-people-desperate-to-stop-trump/

Is there any surprise that DOJ? FBI could act with impunity? Were they “ever” held accountable for malfeasance?

Isn’t the reason Hillary got to walk, because the hotshots DOJ/ FBI considered her as part of the team?

Problems at the Justice Department and FBI Are Serious
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/misconduct-at-fbi-department-of-justice/

What do you do with an FBI agent, sworn to uphold the law, who flagrantly violates the law in a rogue investigation aimed at making a name for himself by bringing down some high-profile targets?

Why . . . you promote him, of course.

Was there any accountability for 9/11? Did anyone lose a job?

In December 2005 Russ Tice helped spark a national controversy over claims that the NSA and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) were engaged in unlawful and unconstitutional wiretaps on American citizens.

Mark Klein is a former AT&T technician who leaked knowledge of his company’s cooperation with the NSA in installing network hardware to covertly monitor, capture, and process American telecommunications en masse. The subsequent media coverage became a major story in May 2006.

William Binney is a former highly placed intelligence official with the NSA turned whistleblower who resigned on October 31, 2001, after more than 30 years with the agency. He was a high-profile critic of his former employers during the George W. Bush administration, and was the subject of FBI investigations, including a raid on his home in 2007.

J. Kirk Wiebe worked as a senior analyst at the NSA from 1975 to 2001. In the aftermath of 9/11, he was among a handful of NSA employees who stumbled upon a secret program at the agency to monitor the communications of millions of U.S. citizens. Wiebe and his colleagues decided to approach inspector generals at the Defense Department and Justice Department with what they found. He spoke to FRONTLINE’s Jim Gilmore on Dec. 13, 2013.

Trailblazer was a United States National Security Agency (NSA) program intended to develop a capability to analyze data carried on communications networks like the Internet. It was intended to track entities using communication methods such as cell phones and e-mail.

NSA employees J. Kirk Wiebe, William Binney, Ed Loomis, and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staffer Diane Roark complained to the Department of Defense’s Inspector General (IG) about waste, fraud, and abuse in the program, and the fact that a successful operating prototype existed. The complaint was accepted by the IG and an investigation began that lasted until mid-2005 when the final results were issued. The results were largely hidden, as the report given to the public was heavily (90%) redacted, while the original report was heavily classified, thus restricting the ability of most people to see it.

The people who filed the IG complaint were later raided by armed Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents. While the Government threatened to prosecute all who signed the IG report, it ultimately chose to pursue an NSA Senior Executive Thomas Andrews Drake who helped with the report internally to NSA and who had spoken with a reporter about the project. Drake was later charged under the Espionage Act of 1917. His defenders claimed this was retaliation. The charges against him were later dropped, and he agreed to plead guilty to having committed a misdemeanor under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

Thomas Tamm is a former attorney in the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR) during the period in 2004 when senior Justice officials fought against the widening scope of warrantless NSA surveillance that consisted of eavesdropping on U.S. citizens. He was an anonymous whistleblower to The New York Times, making the initial disclosure regarding the issue.

Thomas Andrews Drake is a former senior executive at the NSA, a decorated United States Air Force (USAF) and United States Navy (USN) veteran, and a whistleblower. In 2010 the government alleged that Drake “mishandled” documents, one of the few such Espionage Act cases in U.S. history. Drake’s defenders claim that he was instead being persecuted for challenging the Trailblazer Project. He is the 2011 recipient of the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling and co-recipient of the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award.

On June 9, 2011, all 10 original charges against him were dropped. Drake rejected several deals because he refused to “plea bargain with the truth”. He eventually pleaded to one misdemeanor count for exceeding authorized use of a computer; Jesselyn Radack of the Government Accountability Project (GAP), who helped represent him, called it an act of “civil disobedience.”

Edward Snowden is an American computer specialist, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee, who, while working as a Booz Allen Hamilton contractor, disclosed top secret NSA documents to various media outlets, initiating the NSA leaks, which reveal operational details of a global surveillance apparatus run by the NSA and other members of the Five Eyes alliance, along with numerous commercial and international partners.
The release of classified material was called the most significant leak in US history by Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg. A series of exposés beginning June 5, 2013 revealed Internet surveillance programs such as PRISM, XKeyscore, and Tempora, as well as the interception of US and European telephone metadata, among other disclosures.

IF ANY OF US DID THESE SAME THINGS, WE’D BE JAILED FOR LIFE.

NOVEMBER 1990: BOMB MANUALS, PHOTOS DISCOVERED

During an investigation into the assassination of the right-wing rabbi Meir Kahane, authorities discover bomb manuals and photographs of the World Trade Center and the Empire State Building in the apartment of an Egyptian, El-Sayyid Nosair. Nosair reportedly is an associate of Wadih el-Hage.

Was anyone demoted at the FBI/ DOJ for the 1993 WTC bombing, as a result of not investigating the Kahane and the bomb manuals and photographs of the World Trade Center connection?

The New York Police Department initially labeled him a lone gunman. I have argued that it was much more than that: an unsolved murder with dire implications for the war on terror.

Now, as a result of new intelligence I’ve learned from Salem, it’s clear for the first time that the rabbi’s death was directly linked to Osama Bin Laden. More surprising, there was a second gunman on the night of Kahane’s murder: a young Jordanian cab driver named Bilal Alkaisi. Alkaisi was also identified in FBI files I’ve obtained as the “emir” of a hit team in a second grisly al-Qaida-related homicide months after the assassination—the 1991 murder of Egyptian immigrant Mustafa Shalabi. The identities of the alleged killers in that second slaying have now become known as a result of information from Salem that prompted the New York Police Department to reopen the Shalabi case.

But the real news is that Alkaisi, originally indicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was cut loose by the feds in 1994 and presumably remains at large. This new intelligence, about a pair of historic terror-related homicides in New York City, lay buried for years in the files of the Joint Terrorism Task Force—until I obtained them from a government source.

As I tell it in “The Spy Who Came in for the Heat,” an investigative piece I wrote for Playboy’s September issue, Emad Salem was arguably the most important asset in the U.S. war with al-Qaida. But my interviews with him and the intel they have kicked loose provide shocking new insights into the ongoing failure of the FBI to reform its counterterrorism capabilities almost a decade after the Sept. 11 attacks.
http://peterlance.com/wordpress/?p=106

Later that night, Abouhalima and Mohammed Salameh (another Calverton shooter) regrouped at Nosair’s home in Cliffside Park, New Jersey. But they were soon taken into custody as material witnesses by New York police after the house was raided. According to a series of FBI documents, detectives and FBI agents also seized 47 boxes in the raid—material that included prima facie evidence of an international bombing conspiracy with the World Trade Center as a target. Among the files seized was a potential hit list of prominent Jewish figures, including federal judge Jack B. Weinstein, a legendary jurist known as “the lion of the Eastern District.”

The seized material also contained documents presumably left by Ali Mohamed, including Green Beret training manuals and communiqués from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that investigators believe he’d pilfered from Fort Bragg, a sign of al-Qaida’s intent to attack strategic U.S. targets. There was a Joint Chiefs of Staff “Warning Order,” addressed to eight separate U.S. military command centers, the White House, and the Defense Intelligence Agency, plus the U.S. embassies in Egypt, Sudan, Somalia, and Saudi Arabia.

The presence of these documents, many labeled “top secret for training,” not to mention Abouhalima and Salameh, suggested a conspiracy in the Kahane murder. Yet the very next day, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Borelli concluded that the killing was a “lone-gunman” shooting. “There hadn’t been any political assassinations in New York in more than a decade and Borelli didn’t want one on his watch,” Newsday reporters Jim Dwyer, David Kocieniewski, Diedre Murphy, and Peg Tyre wrote in their book on the World Trade Center bombing, Two Seconds Under the World.

Although the raid on Nosair’s house was conducted by New York police and the FBI—which had the Calverton photos not just of Nosair but also of Abouhalima and Salameh—the latter two were released within hours and never charged in the crime.

After the first World Trade Center bombing in February 1993, the FBI finally began to investigate Abdel-Rahman and his followers. An Egyptian informant recorded Abdel-Rahman saying he preferred attacks be concentrated on US military targets, but also approved of acts of violence against civilian targets. His most ambitious plan, according to the government charges, was to set off five bombs within 10 minutes, blowing up the United Nations, the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George Washington Bridge and an FBI building.

Abdel-Rahman was arrested on June 24, 1993, along with nine of his followers. On October 1, 1995, he was convicted of seditious conspiracy, and in 1996 was sentenced to life in solitary confinement without parole.
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/1993-world-trade-center-bombing-mastermind-blind-sheikh-is-dead/2017/02/18/

For the Playboy piece, Salem provided me with a tape that he’d made with his FBI control agent John Anticev after the bombing. “If we was continuing what we were doing, the bomb would never go off,” Salem tells Anticev in broken English. At that point, the FBI agent replies: “Absolutely. But don’t repeat that.” As I see it, this is the first concrete admission by an FBI agent that the bureau could have stopped the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Days later, even though he’d been vastly unappreciated by the management in the bureau’s New York office, Salem volunteered to go back undercover, this time with a wire. As the feds’ linchpin witness in the “bridge and tunnel” case, Salem provided testimony that led to the conviction of Abdel-Rahman and nine others in 1995. In that same trial the feds succeeded in convicting El Sayyid Nosair for Kahane’s murder after the Manhattan D.A. had only convicted him on gun charges.

In one of our interviews, Salem told me that during an undercover conversation in 1993, Clement Hampton-El, a member of the Calverton shooting cell, had told him that a .22 pistol was used to kill Mustafa Shalabi, the Egyptian who had run the Alkifah Center at the al Farooq Mosque. Hampton-El, who was later convicted in the “Day of Terror” plot, also told Salem that, after the bloody killing, Shalabi’s body was moved in such a way as to “make it look like the Jews did it.”
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/44243/first-blood/2

The murder took place precisely two years to the day before the World Trade Center blast executed by Ramzi Yousef, whose uncle is Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the man the FBI calls the mastermind of the Sept. 11 plot. Despite multiple stories in The New York Times during the spring, summer, and fall of 1993—that the Shalabi case had been reopened and a grand jury was hearing evidence in the investigation—the New York Office of the FBI and prosecutors in the Southern District of New York seemed to lose interest in the case by 1994. The question is why.

Another important question is why the FBI began pursuing the case in 2004 with multiple interviews of Nosair and Ayyad over the next two years. And in the post-Sept. 11 era, when counterterrorism agencies were supposed to end the “stove-piping” and intelligence hoarding that failed to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, why did the Joint Terrorism Task Force keep the confessions a secret?

“It could be that they were embarrassed,” said one ex-FBI agent I interviewed after obtaining the Ayyad-Nosair 302s. “If you read those confessions, it’s clear that Alkaisi wasn’t just some minor player. He was a major operative—and, as Ayyad tells it with great credibility—the ring leader in the Shalabi murder. On top of that, the confessions from Nosair indicate that Alkaisi played a leadership role in the Kahane hit as well.”
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/44243/first-blood/2

Taken together, these two 302 memos referencing the involvement of Gilmore (aka Tehir/Tehar) show a link between Osama Bin Laden and the rabbi’s death. For a case tried by the Manhattan D.A. as a “lone-gunman” killing, that is big news.

“If we’d known that three of the guys who went on to bomb the World Trade Center had killed Shalabi, that would have enhanced our sense of their bench strength much earlier,” said Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, a principal in Operation Able Danger, the 1999-2000 al-Qaida data-mining operation conducted by the Defense Intelligence Agency. Able Danger, based at the Army’s Land Warfare Information Activity at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, would later find links between four Sept. 11 hijackers and what was described as a “Brooklyn-based cell” associated with the al Farooq mosque.

Some of the questions raised by all of this are as old as Watergate: What did the feds know about these acts of terror and when did they know it? It’s clear that Southern District prosecutors thought the Shalabi homicide investigation important enough to reopen it and subpoena witnesses before a grand jury in 1993. The Joint Terrorism Task Force thought it important enough to remove key forensic evidence from the NYPD’s property clerk’s office that October. Federal agents leaked stories to The New York Times that cited Mohammed Salameh as a possible suspect. Yet for unknown reasons, they shut the investigation down in 1994 and didn’t effectively reopen it again for another decade.

Why did it take a revelation by Emad Salem to an investigative reporter almost 20 years after the Shalabi death to connect the dots? Even more disturbingly, given what these newly uncovered FBI 302s tell us about the Kahane and Shalabi murders, why would the Joint Terrorism Task Force keep those confessions hidden from New York police almost a decade after Sept. 11, when intelligence sharing between counterterrorism agencies has become a mandate?

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