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Topic started on 18-10-2010 @ 08:17 AM by Freelancer

Had Wikileaks been around before the 9/11 event, could this annonymous 'outlet' of classified/sensitive information have helped to prevent or limit the events of 9/11.

WikiLeaks (sometimes Wikileaks) is an international organization that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of otherwise unavailable documents while preserving the anonymity of sources. Its website, launched in 2006, is run by The Sunshine Press.[1] Within a year of its launch, the site claimed a database that had grown to more than 1.2 million documents.

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While some people may argue that Wikileaks is compromising National Security in its recent release of thousands of classified documents on the Iraq war, had it existed way back in 2001 could it not have also possibly changed or altered the events on 9/11 had people 'knowing something very unusual was being planned' been able to 'leak' their concerns into the public domain?

There were certainly people in positions of authority leading upto the fateful day of 9/11 that did know something big was being planned against the US, yet found their superiors either putting up road blocks or shelving their findings making further investigations 'difficult'.

One example concerns an FBI agent of 24 years service, Coleen Rowley chief legal adviser to the FBI's Minneapolis office. From her 13 page memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller May 21 2002 she raised several points that she felt the FBI had failed to follow up on, or persue because of the secrecy and different agenda's between the various FBI offices/divisions.

Coleen Rowley's Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller

5) The fact is that key FBIHQ personnel whose job it was to assist and coordinate with field division agents on terrorism investigations and the obtaining and use of FISA searches (and who theoretically were privy to many more sources of intelligence information than field division agents), continued to, almost inexplicably,5 throw up roadblocks and undermine Minneapolis' by-now desperate efforts to obtain a FISA search warrant, long after the French intelligence service provided its information and probable cause became clear. HQ personnel brought up almost ridiculous questions in their apparent efforts to undermine the probable cause.

In all of their conversations and correspondence, HQ personnel never disclosed to the Minneapolis agents that the Phoenix Division had, only approximately three weeks earlier, warned of Al Qaeda operatives in flight schools seeking flight training for terrorist purposes!

Nor did FBIHQ personnel do much to disseminate the information about Moussaoui to other appropriate intelligence/law enforcement authorities. When, in a desperate 11th hour measure to bypass the FBIHQ roadblock, the Minneapolis Division undertook to directly notify the CIA's Counter Terrorist Center (CTC), FBIHQ personnel actually chastised the Minneapolis agents for making the direct notification without their approval!

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Coleen Rowley said of Wikileaks, that had it existed at the time of 9/11 that it "might have provided a pressure valve for those agents who were terribly worried about what might happen and frustrated by their superior's seemingly indifference".

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In view of her actions after 9/11, memo to the FBI Director Robert Mueller documenting how FBI HQ personnel in Washington, D.C., had mishandled and failed to take action on information provided by the Minneapolis, Minnesota Field Office regarding its investigation of suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, then testifing in front of the Senate and for the 9/11 Commission about the FBI's internal organization and mishandling of information related to the September 11, 2001, attacks, (IMHO) it is highly possible she would have and others, sought out an 'outlet' for their concerns had Wikileaks been available to them.

The dilemma of course is, would releasing classified information about a possible terrorist attack on US soil constitute a major breach of National Security, since it could jepodize other investigations being carried out simultaneously elsewhere if there seems, as was in the case of Coleen Rowley's Minneapolis office, that their investigations were being sidelined or ignored.

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reply posted on 18-10-2010 @ 09:22 AM by GoodOlDave

Probably not, mainly becuase Wikileaks could be used *now* to reveal somethign was amiss concerning the 9/11 attack. all it would take is one guy posting timetables, schematics, or even a truck driver admitting he drove the explosives to the WTC for this conspiracy of yours to start unravelling.

SO, either noone is going to be spilling the beans or ever would spill the beans..which is odd since people are spilling the beans on other sensitive things like the Pentagon's Afghanistan strategy...or there's nothing to actually spill the beans on. Seeing the bulk of the conspiracy movement's "evidence" is crap they're making up themselves (I.e. no interceptors were scrambled, no Arab names were in the passenger manifests, all the WTC bomb dogs were withdrawn, noone saw what hit the Pentagon, etc) you al least cannot rule out that it's the latter.

reply posted on 18-10-2010 @ 10:47 AM by Malandark

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Thanks for the interesting read. What more could she have done... not much..... When TPTB have a plan there is no way that they are going to let anyone stop them. Kudos to the whistle blowers.... there should be some law to protect them. They are trying to help us against our so called government...who is suppose to look after our interest. The only interest that concerns them is the $$$$$$$$$ type of interest.

reply posted on 18-10-2010 @ 11:03 AM by Malandark

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Thanks ATS Tried to star this one and cant??? What is going on??? So if there are any Moderators looking at this post... Please give this one a star for me.... Cant give it a star... Oh, come on!!!!!

reply posted on 18-10-2010 @ 11:59 AM by roboe

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No.

Partly due to the "Where's Waldo" problem:

Remember the "Where's Waldo?" books of the 1990s? Imagine one kid has had the books for years, and he opens one of his favorite pages up and asks a friend to locate Waldo. And sits there fussing because his friend can't see what's so obvious to him, because he knows what to ignore.

The CIA and the FBI and the rest of the government is like that poor friend, but even worse, because in their case they don't even know if there's a Waldo on that page. They receive a blizzard of information, and most of the warnings never amount to anything. It is obvious after the fact which ones mattered

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