The Purge of the FBI

Updated 5 July 2005

Franklin Freeman
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During the two years since the Bush administration gained office, the old guard at the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been sytematically and extensively cleared out. The pretexts have been the inadequate performance of the "old regime" and the new "anti-terrorism". But the real reason is certainly to produce a Bureau more amenable to the imperial and police-state aims of the oil cabal (of which the administration is a front); and amenable too to the underhand methods used to achieve these aims.

The first target was the FBI's Director himself, Louis Freeh. President Clinton had appointed Freeh in 1993 to a ten-year term as Director. By 2001 Freeh was already facing accusations of incompetence over Waco, and the Oklahoma and Olympic bombings. The final straw for Freeh was the arrest of FBI agent Robert Hanssen (18 Feb. 2001), on charges of spying for the Russians since 1985. Freeh "retired early" in May.

Freeh's "retirement" was followed by that of John O'Neill, head of counter-terrorism at the FBI. O'Neill had had differences with the new Bush administration over the handling of al-Qaeda cases, and in August he "resigned in protest over the administration's obstruction of the ongoing al-Qaeda investigations". He took the job of head of security at the World Trade Center in New York, a poisoned chalice as it quickly turned out. O'Neill was presumed to have died in the Sept. 11 attacks.
('Trade Center security chief thought dead', CNN.com, 12 Sept. 2001; www.ringnebula.com/Oil/Timeline.htm)

In July 2001 President Bush appointed Robert Mueller, a conservative Republican, as Director. (Mueller had been Attorney-General Ashcroft's assistant from January to May 2001.) Mueller took up his post (after congressional approval) on 4 Sept. 2001.
('Bush names new FBI chief', BBC news, 5 July 2001; 'Profile: FBI chief Robert Mueller', BBC news, 28 Sept. 2001.)

With key-man Mueller in place, the cabal could go ahead with the 9/11 attacks. His immediate important service was to publish a (?cooked-up) list of 19 hijackers, mostly Saudis but having links to al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, to immediately provide the cabal with the excuse for an Afghan attack, but more generally to target other nations in and around their projected Middle-eastern oil empire.

While executing these key functions, Mueller would have to spend some time fully subverting the FBI into a cabalistic puppet and/or destroying it. He could block an investigation of the Bush and bin Laden's families' oil-financial connections; but evidently could do no more than hamper the anthrax investigation during autumn-winter 2001-2, since the investigation came very close to the knuckle, exposing the fact that the virus strain was a type of the US army's (also used by the CIA), but not unambiguously, since various other laboratories had received it from them.
[Van Harp, the head of the FBI's Washington field office (also appointed in July 2001), was in charge of the anthrax investigation.]

By May 2002 Mueller had purged one-fourth of the FBI's senior executives ('FBI Director to Propose "Super Squad" for Terror', Washington Post, 15 May 2002, p.A01.). (Ashcroft had stated intent in November to scatter one-tenth of terror-investigative agents across US field offices, which seems to contradict the later centralization drive).

The purge continued through August 2002, when 48 new senior executive appointments had been made since Sept. 11, 2001. In July 2002 Dale Watson, the FBI's new anti-terrorism chief (and hence in overall charge of the Sept. 11 and anthrax investigations) had the bad taste to say that he believed Osama bin Laden was dead. Bin Laden is of course the jewel-in-the-crown of the cabal's excuse to conquer Middle-east oil, and on no account can he be allowed to be dead. In August Mueller announced Watson's 'resignation', and said that he was appointing his own crony Bruce Gebhardt in his place. 'Congressional officials who monitor the FBI said they were surprised by the timing of Mr Watson's departure because he was still well regarded by senior colleagues.' (LA Times, 18 July 2002; 'Counterterror Chief to Retire From FBI Post', Washington Post, 16 Aug 2002, p.A04; Tim Reid, 'FBI chief who upset Bush "retires"', The Times [London], 17 Aug 2002) And what has happened to these senior colleagues since then?

By autumn 2002 Mueller had replaced all the FBI's top managers. ((last paragraph of WP article), Washington Post, 8 Nov. 02)

Criticisms of "security failures" by FBI agents such as Rowley, while probably representing their genuine concern, were used as a further pretext for remoulding and centralising the FBI.

The "new FBI's" domestic "spying" powers have been expanded since 9/11.

Under the Patriot Act, the FBI can acquire bank records and Internet or phone logs [held by "financial institutions"] simply by issuing itself a so-called national security letter saying the records are relevant to an investigation into terrorism. The FBI doesn't need to show probable cause or consult a judge. What's more, the target institution is issued a gag order and kept from revealing the subpoena's existence to anyone, including the subject of the investigation.

insurance companies, real estate agents, the U.S. Postal Service, travel agencies, casinos, pawn shops, car dealers and any other business whose "cash transactions have a high degree of usefulness in criminal, tax or regulatory matters". ...

The new provision inserts one of the most controversial aspects of Patriot II [the draft follow-up to the Patriot Act] into the spending bill. ...

A domestic intelligence service within the FBI is to be set up by a presidential directive of June 2005. Its creation and running will be under the control of John Negroponte, the recently-created head of intelligence. "The directive ... is aimed at colsolidating the power of Negroponte, whose authority over the FBI had been ambiguous. (Douglas Jehl, More teamwork ordered for intelligence agencies ..., New York Times, in Houston Chronicle, 30 June 2005)

("Bush enacts anti-terror measures", BBC News online, 30 June 05)

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