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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...sion—Communist, Nazi, and Japanese. Hoover added investigation of possible espionage, sabotage, or subversion to the duties of field offices.After the... ...ely to the judgment of the FBI. 31 But the prosecution of Aldrich Ames for espionage in 1994 revived con- cerns about the prosecutors’ role in intelli... ...Also, the NSA was supposed to let the FBI know of any indication of crime, espionage, or “terrorist enterprise” so that the FBI could obtain the appro... ...d by centrally determined allocations of resources. Because the conduct of espionage was a high-risk activity, decisions on the clandestine targeting,... ...ept apprehensions high. 78 Then, in the early 1990s, came the Aldrich Ames espionage case, which intensely embarrassed the CIA.Though obviously unreli... ...knowledgeable about al Qaeda and experienced with criminal investiga- tive techniques, including finding suspects and possible criminal charges, were ... ...on of al Qaeda associates,Apr. 11, 2002.Atta reportedly learned alteration techniques in Afghanistan, cleaning Ramzi Binalshibh’s passport of its Pak-...

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