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...altogether and alert the CIA's Counterterrorism Center; Rowley says FBI officials chastised the agents for going behind their backs. She reserves her toughest words for a supervisor who repeatedly belittled the French intelligence on the case. Rowley claims that in late August the supervisor did forward the FISA request to lawyers at the National Security Law Unit, an FBIHQ office that vets warrant proposals before passing them on to the Justice Department. But the supervisor "deliberately further undercut" the request by withholding "intelligence information he promised to add and making several changes in the wording of the information...
...NSLU turned down the Minnesotans' FISA request. Rowley's letter does not provide any specifics to back up the allegation that the supervisor altered or withheld evidence. (Only after Sept. 11 did the FBI successfully obtain a warrant to search Moussaoui's belongings; among other things, the search turned up crop-dusting information, a letter to Moussaoui from an al-Qaeda operative in Malaysia and a notebook that contained an alias eventually traced to the roommate of hijacker Mohamed Atta.) According to Rowley, the supervisor has since been promoted. FBI officials refused to comment on the tampering charge last week...
...report to HQ two months earlier--that al-Qaeda operatives were attending U.S. flight schools. Law-enforcement and congressional sources told TIME that both reports landed on the desk of Dave Frasca, the head of the FBI's radical-fundamentalist unit. The Phoenix memo was buried; the Moussaoui warrant request was denied...
...commit men and money to a crackdown on the drug trade. Uribe won 53% of the vote and promised to halt the activities of left-wing rebels and right-wing paramilitaries, who use money from drug trafficking to finance fighting that kills thousands each year. He also sent a request to the U.N. to mediate an end to the 38-year insurgency...
...Coming from anyone else, the suggestion would have been dismissed as ludicrous. "But this wasn't at all an abnormal request," says Inoue. "This was Ogami. This was business as usual." In reality, there was little that was usual about Ogami and the Asian empire he created by trading on his own hugely hyped public image. Over seven years, Ogami built up a private Tokyo-based company, G.O. Group, that ostensibly sold merchandise like weight-loss tea and electric juicers. In fact, it appears to have existed primarily to feed his ego while bilking investors out of their savings...