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Revealed: Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld warned 9/11 Commission about ‘line’ it ’should not cross’ | Raw Story
By Sahil Kapur, Wednesday March 17th, 2010 - Revealed: Senior Bush administration officials sternly cautioned the 9/11 Commission, against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/CIA.pdf
The letter read, "In response to the Commission's expansive requests for access to secrets, the executive branch has provided such access in full cooperation, there is, however, a line that the Commission should not cross, the line separating the Commission's proper inquiry into the September 11, 2001 attacks, from interference with the Government's ability to safeguard the national security."
The White Van: Were Israelis Detained on Sept. 11 Spies?
Published on Saturday, June 22, 2002 by ABC News - The White Van: Israelis Detained on Sept. 11 2001 -
Around 4 p.m. on Sept. 11, occupants of a van owned by Urban Moving Systems were reported to be acting suspiciously, the van was pulled over and five men between 22 and 27 years old identified as Israeli citizens, were taken into custody, one had $4,700 in cash hidden in his sock, another was carrying two foreign passports, a box cutter was found in the van.
One told police, "we are Israeli, we are not your problem, your problems are our problems, the Palestinians are the problem," the others were his brother Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari, the men were transferred to jail, while the case was transferred out of the FBI's Criminal Division, and into the bureau's Foreign Counterintelligence Section, which is responsible for espionage cases, ABCNEWS has learned.
The five Israelis were held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, ostensibly for overstaying their tourist visas and working in the United States illegally. Two weeks after their arrest, an immigration judge ordered them to be deported, however sources told ABCNEWS that FBI and CIA officials in Washington put a hold on the case.
The five men were held in detention for more than two months, some of them were placed in solitary confinement for 40 days, and some of them were given as many as seven lie detector tests, after which Israeli and U.S. government officials worked out a deal — and after 71 days, they were taken out of jail, put on a plane back home.
Who Did It? - Conspirators
Michael Chertoff — Assistant Attorney General, and dual citizen of US and Israel, who freed over 100 Israeli spies in the US after 911, before being promoted to head Homeland Security. While the former detainees refused to answer ABCNEWS' questions about their detention and what they were doing on Sept. 11, several of them discussed their experience in America on an Israeli talk show after their return, and said "our purpose was to document the event."
ABCNEWS' Chris Isham, John Miller, Glenn Silber and Chris Vlasto contributed to this report.
Revealed: Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld warned 9/11 Commission about ‘line’ it ’should not cross’ | Raw Story
By Sahil Kapur, Wednesday March 17th, 2010 - Revealed: Senior Bush administration officials sternly cautioned the 9/11 Commission, against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/CIA.pdf
The letter read, "In response to the Commission's expansive requests for access to secrets, the executive branch has provided such access in full cooperation, there is, however, a line that the Commission should not cross, the line separating the Commission's proper inquiry into the September 11, 2001 attacks, from interference with the Government's ability to safeguard the national security."
The White Van: Were Israelis Detained on Sept. 11 Spies?
Published on Saturday, June 22, 2002 by ABC News - The White Van: Israelis Detained on Sept. 11 2001 -
Around 4 p.m. on Sept. 11, occupants of a van owned by Urban Moving Systems were reported to be acting suspiciously, the van was pulled over and five men between 22 and 27 years old identified as Israeli citizens, were taken into custody, one had $4,700 in cash hidden in his sock, another was carrying two foreign passports, a box cutter was found in the van.
One told police, "we are Israeli, we are not your problem, your problems are our problems, the Palestinians are the problem," the others were his brother Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari, the men were transferred to jail, while the case was transferred out of the FBI's Criminal Division, and into the bureau's Foreign Counterintelligence Section, which is responsible for espionage cases, ABCNEWS has learned.
The five Israelis were held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, ostensibly for overstaying their tourist visas and working in the United States illegally. Two weeks after their arrest, an immigration judge ordered them to be deported, however sources told ABCNEWS that FBI and CIA officials in Washington put a hold on the case.
The five men were held in detention for more than two months, some of them were placed in solitary confinement for 40 days, and some of them were given as many as seven lie detector tests, after which Israeli and U.S. government officials worked out a deal — and after 71 days, they were taken out of jail, put on a plane back home.
Who Did It? - Conspirators
Michael Chertoff — Assistant Attorney General, and dual citizen of US and Israel, who freed over 100 Israeli spies in the US after 911, before being promoted to head Homeland Security. While the former detainees refused to answer ABCNEWS' questions about their detention and what they were doing on Sept. 11, several of them discussed their experience in America on an Israeli talk show after their return, and said "our purpose was to document the event."
ABCNEWS' Chris Isham, John Miller, Glenn Silber and Chris Vlasto contributed to this report.