Testimony of Louis J. Freeh
FBI Counterterrorism Strategy
Tue Apr 13, 2004 13:19
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Testimony of Louis J. Freeh, Director, FBI
Before the United States Senate, Committees on Appropriations, Armed Services, and Select Committee on Intelligence
May 10, 2001
"Threat of Terrorism to the United States"
http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress01/freeh051001.htm

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FBI Counterterrorism Strategy

The strategic goal of the FBI's Counterterrorism Program is to identify, prevent, deter, and respond to acts of terrorism. In the area of responding to terrorist incidents after they occur, the FBI, with the support of the Congress and the Administration, has greatly improved its crisis response capabilities since the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 and the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. One can look to such investigative successes, as the indictment of 22 individuals in connection with the bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 to understand the FBI's far reaching capability to respond to terrorist incidents abroad as well as at home.

Even though the FBI has realized successes in responding to acts of terrorism, the FBI recognizes that the underlying political/religious/social movements which produced recent acts of terrorism are beyond its control- therefore, the FBI will never be able to prevent all acts of terrorism. International terrorists have demonstrated their willingness and ability to strike against citizens and facilities of the United States not only in foreign lands, but also here at home. Fast-paced global changes, such as the widespread growth in international trade and commerce; greater international openness and exchange of ideas brought about by improvements in communications and the Internet; shifts in the balance of political/social/economic forces in developing and established countries; and a growing international financial dependence, among others, continue to present the FBI with new challenges in the area of terrorism prevention.

In an effort to keep pace with the changing terrorist threat to the United States, the FBI is implementing a new management and operational initiative to further strengthen its ability to combat terrorism. This initiative, referred to as MAXCAP05, has as its goal the achievement by Fiscal Year 2005 of five core competencies or capacities for its Counterterrorism Program: investigative, intelligence, communications, liaison, and program management.

* Investigative Capacity is the extent to which each FBI Field Office is appropriately staffed, trained, equipped, and managed to prevent and effectively respond to acts of terrorism based on the known terrorist threat in that field office.
* Intelligence Capacity is the ability to produce, use, and appropriately disseminate on a timely basis strategic, operational, and tactical Counterterrorism intelligence products.
* Communications Capacity is the capability to fully utilize and integrate FBI resources throughout the Bureau in support of Counterterrorism programs and initiatives through the use of appropriate information technology.
* Liaison Capacity is the capacity to prioritize, establish, and maintain sound and productive relationships with external counterparts in the intelligence community, law enforcement communities, other federal agencies, defense establishments, foreign services, private industry and non-governmental organizations, State and local agencies, legislative and executive bodies, the media, and academia to obtain maximum information and support.
* Program Management Capacity is the capacity to effectively direct, measure, and manage the Counterterrorism Program's progress toward identifying and achieving its core competencies.

The FBI recently completed a field-wide assessment of investigative capacity. This assessment has been used to establish operational priorities. More importantly, the baseline assessments can serve as a starting point upon which progress towards achieving core competencies can be measured. Field office assessments will be updated semiannually.

2002 Counterterrorism Budget Request

For FY 200 1, the FBI is requesting increases totaling $32,059,000 and 42 positions (8 agents) to improve and enhance existing counterterrorism capabilities and operations.

2002 Winter Olympics Preparation. The 2002 Winter Olympic Games have been designated a National Special Security Event. Consistent with FBI lead-agency responsibilities for intelligence collection and crisis management as contained in PDD-39 and PDD-62, the FBI is working closely with the United State Secret Service and other federal, state, and local law enforcement and consequence management agencies to plan for security and public safety issues for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games that will be hosted by Salt Lake City, Utah.

For FY 2002, the FBI requests increases totaling $12,302,000 for 2002 Winter Olympic Games deployment. The funding requested will cover travel, per diem, vehicle lease, utilities, telecommunications, and FBI overtime costs for the planned deployment of over 800 FBI personnel for the event period. The Salt Lake City games will be conducted at 20 official Olympic venues spread over a 6,000 square mile area. Olympic competition will take place simultaneously at 10 venues in 3 major cities and 6 remote mountain resort areas.

Recurring Security Services. The FBI is committed to implementing the security standards contained in the June 1995 Department of Justice report entitled,
"Vulnerability Assessment of Federal Facilities." For FY 2002, the FBI requests an increase of $2,020,000 to acquire contract guard services for six stand-alone field office facilities where GSA does not provide such service ($1,600,000), replace an outdated closed-circuit television (CCTV) security system at FBI Headquarters ($320,000), and replace three guard booths at FBI Headquarters to facilitate new visitor identification procedures ($100,000).

Incident Response Readiness. Consistent with the provisions of PDD-62, the FBI initiated a long-term program in FY 2000 to develop law enforcement capabilities for the technical resolution of a weapons of mass destruction incident involving chemical, biological, or radiological threats or devices. Initial funding for this effort was provided through an interagency agreement with the Department of Defense. For FY 2002, the FBI requests 42 positions (8 agents) and $17,737,000 to support ongoing efforts in the areas of threat assessment, diagnostics, and advanced render safe equipment.

In addition to the FBI's Counterterrorism initiative for FY 2002, there is funding proposed within another Department of Justice program that is considered important to the FBI's ongoing counterterrorism efforts.

State and Local Bomb Technician Equipment. Within the funding proposed for the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), $ 10,000,000 is included to continue an FBI Laboratorymanaged program of training and equipping approximately 386 accredited State and local bomb squads located in communities throughout the United States.

Continuation of funding for this program will ensure State and local bomb squads are properly trained and equipped for dealing with traditional improvised and explosive devices, as well as the initial response to devices that may be used by terrorists or others to release chemical or biological agents. Through this program, the FBI has provided State and local bomb squads with weapons of mass destruction (WMD) protective search suits, real-time x-ray devices, multi-gas monitoring systems, portable radiation detectors, and computers to access the Chemical and Biological Organisms - Law Enforcement database through the Law Enforcement On-line (LEO) program. This initiative compliments the State and local bomb technician training and accreditation program that the FBI Laboratory provides at the Hazardous Devices School, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.

Summary

Combating terrorism is a priority of the FBI. Through the support of the Administration and the Congress, the FBI has been able to greatly improve its crisis response capabilities to respond to such acts when and wherever they occur. The management and operational strategy that the FBI is implementing will further improve its capacity to counter terrorism. We believe this strategy will allow the FBI to continually refine, adjust, and upgrade our response capacities in the face of new threats and groups. Also, this strategy recognizes and emphasizes the importance of the capacity for gathering and sharing intelligence on a timely basis with other agencies involved in countering terrorism. The strategy places a premium on the importance of establishing and maintaining communications and liaison with our federal, State, and local partners. Finally, the strategy emphasizes the effective management and allocation of program resources provided by the Congress.
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FBI CONTINUES TO COVER UP PILOT COMMUNICATIONS RELATED TO SEPT 11
by Joel Skousen


In all major conspiratorial events, evidence related to the event
continues to surface over time, and if the government is involved, it
demonstrates its collusion by the degree to which it attempts to
suppress and cover up the emerging evidence. As in the JFK assassination
and the downing of TWA 800 by a missile, we are beginning to see the
same pattern of obfuscation, denial, and cover-up by federal agencies in
the September 11th tragedy--especially by the FBI, the military, and the FAA.

Some of the biggest questions about the events of 9/11 center around the
hijacking of the various airliners: how the pilots reacted, and what
actions the government took via the military to impede the results.
Pilots have instant access to Air Traffic Control (ATC) with a push of a
button on the control yoke. In contrast, it takes time for a hijacker to
take over the cabin and then deal with the pilots who are in a separate
compartment behind a locked aluminum sliding door. We know, by FAA
admission, that in each and every case the pilots had time to
communicate their emergency to ATC. In at least two cases the pilots
were able to change the transponder code to 7700 for "emergency in
progress" before the hijackers took control and switched off the
transponder. The FAA and US military have standing orders and written
procedures on how to intercept and deal with aircraft hijackings.

The FAA has said that it alerted military authorities in Colorado at the
first signs of a hijacking. Yet we know that a few aircraft were
scrambled and that all others were grounded and prohibited from reacting
according to standing procedures. One of my subscribers is friends with
an air traffic controller at McGuire AFB in New Jersey. His friend
confided to him that "he was on duty at the time of the crashes into the
towers. They got a phone call in between the first and second 'hit'. His
superior told him that 'NO take-off's were permitted ... NONE at all.'"
This was too early to be a direct result of shutting down all flights
nationwide--which only affected private and commercial flights--not
military. Here we have evidence of the US military acting in direct
opposition to national defense--acting on orders from above. These
orders couldn't have come from Bush, who was engaged at an elementary
school, so higher military officials were either taking orders from
someone else at the White House or acting on predetermined orders.

I find it also very strange that flight data and voice recorders from
all the 9/11 crashes except Flight 93 (which crashed or was shot down
over Pennsylvania) have been declared not found, destroyed, or
unreadable. These declarations are without precedent in aviation
accident history, and especially preposterous when we consider that the
FBI claims to have found letters, passports and other fragile documents
belonging to the supposed Arab hijackers amidst the tons of rubble of
the WTC--and yet they couldn't find crash hardened data recorders. The
data and voice recorders are designed to survive both the crash and
resulting fire and almost always do. Why not this time?

Now the FBI tells us they will not be releasing the lone cockpit voice
recorder that survived Flight 93 because "it would be too traumatic for
the surviving families." What could be more traumatic that what they
already know? This is just another blatant excuse to withhold even more
information about the tragedies. There has to be a good reason why the
FBI refuses to release this voice recorder, and I think it has to do
with the fact that it may not have been a hijacking at all that took
down this aircraft.

It is becoming evident that Flight 93 was shot down by an unmarked white
jet that was seen intercepting Flight 93 and following it down as it
crashed. The jet was witnessed in detail by several people on the
ground. One military witness claims he heard a missile being fired. In
addition, the main body of the engine of Flight 93 was found miles from
the main wreckage site, with damage comparable to that which a heat
seeking missile would do to an airliner. There were also personal
papers, and articles of clothing from the plane found miles from the
crash. The government is now saying these were carried up into the air
by the crash fireball--but no such occurrence has happened in other
crashes. The existing body of evidence is found at on a website at
http://www.flight93crash.com .

The website doesn't draw any conclusions except that
Flight 93 didn't go down as the public has been told and that the
government knows why and isn't telling.
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Instant Emails to Israel Warned of 911 Attack Just Hours Prior
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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/
Ha'aretz Daily - Israel

Odigo Says Workers Were Warned Of 911 Attack 2 Hours Before
By Yuval Dror



Odigo, the instant messaging service, says that two of its workers
received messages two hours before the Twin Towers attack on September
11 predicting the attack would happen, and the company has been
cooperating with Israeli and American law enforcement, including the
FBI, in trying to find the original sender of the message predicting the attack.

Micha Macover, CEO of the company, said the two workers received the
messages and immediately after the terror attack informed the company's
management, which immediately contacted the Israeli security services,
which brought in the FBI.

"I have no idea why the message was sent to these two workers, who don't
know the sender. It may just have been someone who was joking and turned
out they accidentally got it right. And I don't know if our information
was useful in any of the arrests the FBI has made," said Macover. Odigo
is a U.S.-based company whose headquarters are in New York, with offices
in Herzliya.

As an instant messaging service, Odigo users are not limited to sending
messages only to people on their "buddy" list, as is the case with ICQ,
the other well-known Israeli instant messaging application.

Odigo usually zealously protects the privacy of its registered users,
said Macover, but in this case the company took the initiative to
provide the law enforcement services with the originating Internet
Presence address of the message, so the FBI could track down the
Internet Service Provider, and the actual sender of the original message.
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Proof Of Controlled Demolition At The WTC
By Jerry Russell, Ph.D.
http://www.911-strike.com/demolition.htm