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Dina Corsi

Events (26)

May 29, 2001: CIA and FBI Possibly Have Meeting aboutColeand Malaysia Summit, but Nobody Will Later Remember Anything about It 2001-05-29
June 11, 2001: FBI and CIA Hold Shouting Match over Information on Al-Qaeda; CIA Still Withholds Information 2001-06-11
August 21-22, 2001: FBI Agents Finally Realize Hijacker Almihdhar Is in US 2001-08-21
August 22, 2001: CIA Officer Who Already Knows of Almihdhar and Alhazmi’s US Travel Is Informed of it by FBI, Agrees Investigation Should Start 2001-08-22
Before August 22, 2001: FBI Headquarters Agent Learns Al-Qaeda Leader Attended Malaysia Summit with 9/11 Hijackers, Investigation Fails to Discover How 2001-08-22
Before August 22, 2001: Threat Information about ‘Khalid’ Increases Interest in Hijacker Almihdhar 2001-08-22
August 23, 2001: FBI Headquarters Gives New York Field Office Heads Up Over 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar, but Investigation Is Not Considered Urgent 2001-08-23
August 23, 2001: FBI Manager Informed of Hunt for 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar, Realizes Seriousness of Situation 2001-08-23
August 23, 2001: FBI Field Agent Tells FBI Headquarters Search for 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar Should Be Criminal, Not Intelligence Investigation 2001-08-23
August 23, 2001: FBI Agent Discusses Opening of Intelligence Investigation with CIA Officer, Notes Almihdhar Has Stronger Link to USSColeBombing 2001-08-23
(Shortly After August 23, 2001): Top FBI Official Possibly Notified of Search for Hijacker Almihdhar 2001-08-23
August 27-28, 2001: NSA Approves Passage of Key Information about 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar toColeInvestigators, but FBI Headquarters Continues to Withhold It 2001-08-27
August 28, 2001:ColeAgent Argues with FBI Headquarters over Search for 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar 2001-08-28
August 28, 2001: USSColeInvestigator Receives Almihdhar Memo, FBI Headquarters Forces Him to Delete It 2001-08-28
(August 28, 2001): FBI Supervisor Says Search for 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar Should Be Criminal, Not Intelligence Investigation 2001-08-28
August 28, 2001: FBI Headquarters Asks New York Office to Open Intelligence Investigation into Hijacker Almihdhar 2001-08-28
August 28-29, 2001: FBI Headquarters Allegedly Misrepresents Attorney’s Advice, Ensuring Search for 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar Is Intelligence Investigation 2001-08-28
August 29, 2001: FBI Wrongly Opens Intelligence Investigation to Find 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar, despite Protests that ‘Someday Somebody Will Die’ as a Result 2001-08-29
August 29, 2001: FBI Does Not Fully Realize 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar Entered US Illegally 2001-08-29
August 29, 2001: CIA Officer Possibly Tells FBI Agent Search for 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar Must Be Intelligence Investigation 2001-08-29
August 30, 2001: CIA Finally Tells FBI Al-Qaeda Leader Met 9/11 Hijackers in Malaysia, but Information Is Withheld from Investigators 2001-08-30
(September 5, 2001): FBI Headquarters Prevents Credit Card Check that Could Help Locate 9/11 Hijacker Almihdhar 2001-09-05
June 12-September 11, 2001:ColeInvestigator Repeatedly Asks FBI Headquarters for Information Leading to 9/11 Hijackers, but Gets Nothing 2001-09-11
2:30 p.m. September 11, 2001: New York FBI Agent Recognizes the Name of a Hijacker during a Conference Call with FBI Headquarters 2001-09-11
January 10, 2003: Government Employees Responsible for 9/11 Failures Are Rewarded and Promoted 2003-01-10
Late May, 2001: CIA Officer Passes Three Malaysia Summit Photographs to FBI, but Fails to Mention Some Important Details