“The CIA ran a clandestine op in the U.S., and they didn’t want the FBI involved in it.” Former FBI Mark Rossini

Mark Rossini was an FBI Special Agent who had a distinguished career working on complex criminal cases and counterterrorism matters. Perhaps, we should listen to what he has been saying all along about the 9/11 attacks? Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

About Mark Rossini

Mark Rossini served as an FBI representative to the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center (CTC) at CIA Headquarters and he was one of the founding executives of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).

Rossini has worked on international terrorism matters concerning the FARC, ETA, Hezbollah, and Al-Qaeda.

Rossini briefed the Threat Matrix at the daily 5 p.m. meetings on worldwide counterterrorism operations at the CIA to then Director of Central Intelligence, George J. Tenet, and the executive leadership of the CIA. Rossini is now a counter terrorism consultant.

Mr. Rossini blames the CIA for the 9/11 attacks. It is my opinion that his story should be investigated rather than dismissed as a ‘Conspiracy Theory’.

Tracking al-Qaeda operatives in the US

Rossini served as one of the two FBI liaisons to the CIA’s Bin Laden Issue Station, an inter-agency team assigned to track Osama bin Laden and his associates. Rossini was aware in January 2000 that two al-Qaeda members, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, had valid US visas. However, a CIA employee, Michael Anne Casey, stopped him from passing the information to FBI headquarters. Rossini knew that if he reported this information to his FBI colleagues he would be breaking the law. The two men turned out to be hijackers of American Airlines flight 77 on 9/11. [Wikipedia]

The Theory

“Rossini is convinced that the CIA, in an effort to get more information on al Qaeda, was trying to recruit al-Midhar or, less likely, his close associate, Nawaf al-Hazmi—in other words, to turn one or both of them into a source that would share the terror organization’s secrets.” “Doing so on U.S. soil without consulting the FBI is prohibited. Bush counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke, who was also kept in the dark, embraces the same theory.” [28pages.org]

Sudden change of Attitude

In August of 2001, the CIA suddenly called for a meeting with the FBI in New York. The Agency wanted the bureau’s help in tracking down al-Midhar and al-Hazmi. Too little, too late…

Footnote 44

The story is buried deep within 116 pages of tiny print in the back of the “9/11 Commission Report”.

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REFERENCES

FBI Agent: The CIA Could Have Stopped 9/11

Former FBI Agent Mark Rossini Driven to Expose CIA’s 9/11 Secret — 28pages.org