In November 2000 FBI Agent Ali Soufan asked FBI Director Louis Freeh if Freeh would ask CIA Director George Tenet if the CIA had any information on Tawfiq Bin Attash, (Khallad), known to be one of the masterminds of the Cole bombing, and on any al Qaeda planning meeting that the CIA was aware of that had taken place in Kuala Lumpur in January 2000.

Soufan was told that the CIA had none of this information. But Freeh himself had been given this very information by both the NSA in December 1999 and by the CIA in January 2000. These facts are described on page 181 of the 9/11 Commission report and on pages 238 and 239 of the DOJ Inspector General’s report of the FBI and their performance prior to 9/11. This information also appeared in Freeh’s January 4, 2000 daily briefing papers, along with the full name Khalid al-Mihdhar, one of the al Qaeda terrorists on AA77 that hit the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and the fact he was attending a high level al Qaeda planning meeting in Kuala Lumpur in early January 2000.

It is now clear that FBI Director Freeh had criminally obstructed his own FBI investigation into the Cole bombing, and that this fact has been covered up by the Joint Inquiry investigation of the House and the Senate, by the 9/11 Commission and even by the DOJ Inspector General’s investigation into the events on 9/11.

In order to cover this up, all of these investigations had literally stripped any mention of FBI Agent Ali Soufan from all aspects of their investigations, as if Soufan had never even existed in spite of the fact he was the lead FBI investigator on the FBI Cole bombing investigation.

But this obstruction of Ali Soufan and his investigation in the Cole bombing is only the trip of the iceberg. It turns out that Soufan and his assistant FBI Steve Bongardt and their investigation into the Cole bombing had been criminally obstructed numerous times by both the CIA and FBI Headquarters personnel, and by carefully reading the reports from the Joint Inquiry Committee, the 9/11 Commission and the DOJ Inspector General along with the account of Ali Soufan and the documents from the Moussaoui trial it was possible to go back and ultimately put this whole story back together again, something these government investigations just somehow were unable to do, using only this publicly available information.

Because the attack on the USS Cole had been planned at the very same meeting where the attacks on 9/11 had been planned, by hiding this information on the Kuala Lumpur meeting from Soufan and the other Cole investigators, the CIA and the FBI HQ personnel who had taken part in these criminal obstructions had allowed the information that could have prevented the attacks on 9/11 from going to the one investigation that could have prevented these 9/11 attacks, the team of Cole investigators under Soufan and Bongardt.

But the horror story of all horror stories is when the CIA and the FBI knew a huge al Qaeda attack was about to occur inside of the US, knew that both Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi were inside of the US and even knew that these two al Qaeda terrorists were going to take part in this huge al Qaeda attack, not only did they keep this information secret from the FBI criminal investigators on the Cole bombing, in spite of the fact they knew Mihdhar and Hazmi had both taken part in the planning of the Cole bombing at Kuala Lumpur, but they sabotaged any chance Bongardt and his team would have to investigate Mihdhar and Hazmi and prevent the attacks on 9/11! When the CIA and FBI HQ personnel were sabotaging the Cole bombing team’s investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi they clearly all knew that the result would be that thousands of Americans would persih in these attacks!

This entire story can now be found at http://www.evertson911.com along with all of the actual source documents that back this up. These documents were in fact all taken right off of the governments own webs sites or sites that had information that had originally come directly from the FBI.