The CIA and 9/11 Part 3: The Shouting Match   Tom Wilshire’s
Orchestrated Ruse  By Kevin Fenton  CIAIn the first two parts of
this series we saw how a group of officers at Alec Station, the
CIA’s bin Laden unit, concealed information about al-Qaeda’s
Malaysia summit from their FBI colleagues in January 2000. In
particular they hid information about a US visa in the
possession of Flight 77 hijacker Khalid Almihdhar. We also saw
how this protection of Almihdhar, his partner Nawaf Alhazmi and
al-Qaeda leader Khallad bin Attash continued even after the
involvement of Almihdhar and bin Attash in the October 2000 USS
Cole bombing became known to the US intelligence community.
Concealing information about terrorists involved in seventeen
homicides was bad enough, but things were about to get much
worse.  wilshireShortly after the CIA had failed to respond
truthfully to a second formal request for information about the
Cole bombing from FBI agent Ali Soufan in April 2001, the cables
the CIA drafted about the Malaysia