"U. S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General
A Review of the FBI's Handling of
Intelligence Information Related to the
September 11 Attacks (November 2004) 449 page report
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After her meeting with Donna on August 22, 2001, Mary asked another
CTC officer to draft a CIR to the State Department, INS, U.S. Customs
Service, and FBI requesting the placement of Mihdhar and his travel
companions, Hazmi and Salah Saeed Muhammed bin Yousaf, on U.S.
watchlists. This is the first record of the placement of Mihdhar
or Hazmi on any U.S. watchlist. On August 23, 2001, Donna contacted
the State Department and requested a copy of Mihdhar’s most recent
visa application from the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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where is the wall defined? Isn’t it dealing with FISA information? I think everyone is still confusing this issue…someday someone will die – and wall or not – the public
will not understand why we were not more effective and throwing every resource we had at certain ‘problems.’
(Fake Walls, Fake Issues, Protect Terrorist at all costs)
biggest threat to us now, UBL, is getting the most ‘protection’.
Richard told the OIG that he began to work on locating Mihdhar on
September 4. He stated that he had received the assignment on Thursday,
August 30, but he worked all weekend and Monday on another exigent
investigative matter involving a Canadian hijacking. As a result, he said he did
not have the opportunity to begin work on the Mihdhar investigation until
Tuesday, September 4
Checkbox snafu
On September 4, Richard completed a lookout request for the INS,
identifying Mihdhar as a potential witness in a terrorist investigation. Due to
his unfamiliarity with completing the lookout form, Richard contacted an INS
Special Agent who was assigned to the FBI’s JTTF in New York. We call this
Special Agent “Patrick.” The INS lookout form has a box indicating whether
the individual was wanted for “security/terrorism” reasons. Richard did not
check this box. He said that he thought Patrick told him to identify the subject
on the form as a witness, not a potential terrorist, to prevent overzealous
immigration officials from overreacting. By contrast, Patrick, who was
assigned to the JTTF since September 1996, told us that he did not provide this
advice to Richard and he always checked the security/terrorism box whenever
he completed the lookout form for a potential witness in a terrorism
investigation
Is "Mary" = "CA Assistant Secretary Mary Ryan"??? "Visas Viper"??
page 107
"Following the 9/11 attacks, CA Assistant Secretary Mary Ryan met with CIA Director George Tenet,
and expressed her frustration with the CIA’s failure to provide State with the names of two 9/11 hijackers:
Khalid al Mihdhar and Nawaf al Hazmi, whose names were in the possession of the CIA as early as
January 2000. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks and this meeting between Ryan and Tenet, Visas Viper
experienced a “dramatic” increase in submissions. Mary Ryan interview (Sept. 29, 2003).