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Restored archive of the open-content investigative journalism project

Steve Bongardt

Events (11)

June 11, 2001: FBI and CIA Hold Shouting Match over Information on Al-Qaeda; CIA Still Withholds Information 2001-06-11
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 28-29, 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
June 12-September 11, 2001:ColeInvestigator Repeatedly Asks FBI Headquarters for Information Leading to 9/11 Hijackers, but Gets Nothing 2001-09-11
September 11, 2001: FBI Agents Able to Quickly Find Alhazmi and Almihdhar Once 9/11 Attacks Are Over 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
(Before 8:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: FBI Agent Sees a Report about Bin Laden Reopening His Underground Complex 2001-09-11