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Retired FBI Counter-Terrorism Expert JOHN P. O’NEILL killed at World Trade Center on 9/11

Is it irony or payback that O’Neill, recently retired from the FBI, under a cloud from an internal investigation for having lost a briefcase containing highly classified information(shortly found later undisturbed), dies as the head of WTC Security on 9/11 heroically trying to evacuate others on the 49th floor of the North Tower? He had just started the job August 23, 2001.

O’Neill suspected it was Acting Director Thomas J. Pickard who leaked the story about the internal investigation to the NYT as a smear campaign (sound familiar?). Pickard, was appointed by Attorney General John Ashcroft after Louis Freeh’s resignation. Pickard served only 71 days in the summer of 2001 from June 25, 2001 – Sept. 4, 2001. Incidentally, in 1989, Pickard was selected for the FBI's (SES) Senior Executive Service and was transferred to FBI Headquarters, where he oversaw the FBI's finance operations and subsequently its personnel operations. Pickard retired in November of 2001.

O’Neill is a capable agent. Returning to the Washington headquarters in 1995, he became chief of the counterterrorism section. On his first day, he received a call from his friend Richard Clarke, who had just learned that Ramzi Yousef had been located in Pakistan. O'Neill worked continuously over the next few days to gather information and coordinate the successful capture and extradition of Yousef. Intrigued by the case, O'Neill continued to study the 1993 bombing Yousef had masterminded and other information about Islamic militants. He was directly involved in the investigation into the June 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, which took place during a retreat O'Neill had organized in Quantico for FBI and CIA counter-terrorism agents. Frustrated by the level of cooperation from the Saudis, O'Neill purportedly vented to FBI Director Louis Freeh, saying that they were "blowing smoke up your ass," though Freeh later denied this, saying that they had an excellent relationship.

In 1996 and 1997, O'Neill continued to warn of growing threats of terrorism, saying that modern groups are not supported by governments and that there are terrorist cells operating within the United States. He stated that veterans of the insurgency by Afghan rebels against the Soviet Union's invasion had become a major threat. In January 1997, he moved to New York to be Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's National Security Division, the FBI's "largest and most prestigious field office".

By 1998, O'Neill had become focused on Osama bin Laden, and created an Al Qaeda desk in his division. In August 1998, two United States embassies were bombed in quick succession in simultaneous attacks in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. O'Neill hoped to be involved in the investigation because he had gained a tremendous knowledge of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network. O'Neill persuaded FBI Director Freeh to let his office handle the case, and prosecutor Mary Jo White later said that "John O’Neill, in the investigation of the bombings of our embassies in East Africa, created the template for successful investigations of international terrorism around the world.

In 1999, O'Neill sent a close associate named Mark Rossini to work in CIA's Bin Laden Issue Station in Virginia. He had a conflict with CIA station chief Richard Blee; O'Neill wanted Rossini to stay at station and feed him information about what the CIA was doing, while Blee wanted him out working in the field. Later on, the CIA Bin Laden station learned that Bin-Laden associates Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar were headed to the US with Visas. Rossini and his associate Doug Miller attempted to alert O'Neill but the message was blocked by Blee. Mihdhar and Hazmi became two of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77 on 9/11. Another conflict was with Barbara Bodine, US Ambassador to Yemen. In the middle of his investigation of the USS Cole bombing, she denied his visa when returning from Thanksgiving. She retired August 30, 2001. She needs to be further researched.

Part 1

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Part 2 John P. O'Neill What did he know and was he killed on 9/11 because of it?

CIA Ricard Blee – Involvement in Pre-9/11 Failures

https://hcgroups.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/identity-of-cia-officer-responsible-for-pre-911-failures-tora-bora-escape-rendition-to-torture-revealed/

One of the best-known pre-9/11 failures was the failure by the CIA in January 2000 to pass on to the FBI the information that one of the hijackers, Khalid Almihdhar, had a US visa, and would therefore probably soon arrive in the US. FBI officers detailed to the CIA learned of the information, but one of Blee’s deputies, Tom Wilshire, prevented them from passing it on to the bureau.

The CIA had been monitoring a summit of al-Qaeda leaders in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which began on 5 January. On 8 January three of the summit attendees, Almihdhar, his partner Nawaf Alhazmi and al-Qaeda leader Khallad bin Attash, left for Bangkok, and Alec Station received a cable from the field reporting this. The CIA claims that its officers in Bangkok could not pick up the surveillance at the airport and that the three men were lost. The next day Alec Station sent a high-priority NIACT (night action) cable urging the station in Bangkok to find them.

Although the other summit attendees had also dispersed at the same time as the three men who flew to Bangkok, on 12 January Blee claimed to his bosses that the surveillance in Kuala Lumpur was continuing. The 9/11 Commission, suggested that Blee “may not have known that in fact Almihdhar and his companions had dispersed and the tracking was falling apart.” The interview of Blee received high-level attention on the commission. It was led by the commission’s executive director Philip Zelikow and two team leaders, Kevin Scheid and Barbara Grewe.

It is unclear how Blee could possibly have been unaware of this, as his unit had previously both received and sent at least one cable stating they had left for Bangkok and he would presumably have asked his subordinates for an update in the four days between the hijackers’ departure from Kuala Lumpur and the 12 January briefing. The commission’s formulation—that Blee “may not have known”—also begs the question: Well, did he know or not? If he did, he withheld key information from his bosses during the high threat period of the millennium alert. If he did not know, it means his subordinates withheld the information from him.

The next day, Bangkok station reported that it could not find the three men. Nevertheless, Blee went back to his superiors on 14 January and told them officials were continuing to track the summit’s attendees, who had now dispersed to various countries. Here, the commission’s report is clear, finding, “there is no evidence of any tracking efforts actually being undertaken by anyone after the Arabs disappeared into Bangkok.”

It is clear the information received by Blee’s superiors was incorrect. Given the improbability of Blee’s subordinates wanting or being able to conceal the real state of affairs from him for nearly a week, it appears that it was Blee that decided to withhold the information from them.

There has been speculation that the reason the information was withheld was to enable the CIA, perhaps using a group of former employees or confederates, to monitor Almihdhar and Alhazmi in the US without having to worry about a competing FBI surveillance team. The above analysis indicates that Blee wanted not only the FBI, but also his own superiors off his back. Blee came to know the attackers were in the U.S. and he purposely hid the information. Please read the article – too long to post entirely.

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Was Mueller set up for 9/11?? He had just started the week before. The acting Director of the FBI Thomas J. Pickard -SES- Senior Executive Services, only served 71 days and I believe his one mission was to get rid of the FBI agent who was an expert on al-Queda - John P. O'Neill.

CIA Richard Blee intentionally withheld information about the men entering the U.S. who were the hijackers.

These people Pickard (SES) and Bree (CIA) knew IMO the 9/11 attack was coming and prevented agencies from doing anything about it.

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What else is interesting is the assailant/murderer said the guy's(Tester) 8 yr old daughter was in bed with him when he entered the room. Could be innocent or maybe not.

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So where does Mueller fall in all of this? Potus hasn't personally attacked him. We know at least some on his team are dirty. Are they busy trying to destroy evidence or are they planning cases against the corrupt? Or are they teamed up where one is a white hat and one is a black hat.?