In 1978, Alabama Securities Commissioner Tommy Krebs told the Wall Street Journal, "I'd rather have a sister in a whorehouse than a brother in the FBI."
Ineffectual managers meant that the FBI lost its chance to stop 9/11. Instead, the FBI harassed ethical agents, one of whom was co-winner in 2001 of Time's "Persons of the Year" on whistleblowers.
Now FBI's putatively "classified" documents are being read by United States District Judge William J. Zloch in Miami in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the Broward Bulldog newspaper.
Judge William J. Zloch has rightly denied FBI efforts to avoid, evade and violate the Freedom of Information Act. The FBI oddly claims "national security" protects documents about a well-connected Saudi Arabian family that abruptly left its Sarasota residence for good only two weeks before 9/11 after hosting 9/11 hijackers. The FBI falsely claimed "national security" exemptions while claiming it found nothing.
Patriotism was once called the "last refuge of scoundrels." Now it is "national security," carved into Exemption 1 of the FOIA.
Former Governor and U.S. Senator Robert Graham wrote in his book, Intelligence Matters, that there were 27 pages of censored information on the Royal Kingdom of Saudu Arabia's involvement in 9/11 in the Senate 9/11 report. Read his chapter on the deleted 27 pages and you will want to know more.
Three cheers for Judge William J. Zloch, the Broward Bulldog newspaper, attorney Thomas Julin, and intervenors The Miami Herald and Sarasota Herald-Tribune and their attorneys, Carol Locicero, Rachel Fugate and Mark Caramanica. who wrote "The stakes are simply too great to accept as a matter of law the government's vague, often second hand conclusiosn as to teh adequacy of its document searches."
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