9/11 CIA intentionally withheld information about two Saudi-born terrorists in U.S

[Dick McManus]

Richard Clarke, former White House Counterterror “Tsar”accusing then-
CIA Director George Tenet and two of his deputies of deliberately not
informing the White House, FBI, and Defense Department about two
future hijackers inside U.S., then covering up from the 9/11
investigations.
attacks on Clarke from three of those he singled out. Tenet and former
CIA officials Cofer Black and Richard Blee, chiefs of CounterTerrorist
Center and Bin Laden Station respectively on 9/11, have issued a one-
page joint statement to the producers calling Clarke’s comments
“reckless and profoundly wrong.”

“Richard Clarke was an able public servant who served his country well
for many years,” the statement says. “But his recently released
comments about the run-up to 9/11 are reckless and profoundly
wrong.”

Clarke offers an incendiary theory that, if true, would rewrite the
history of the 9/11 attacks, suggesting that the CIA intentionally
withheld information from the White House and FBI in 2000 and 2001
that two Saudi-born terrorists were on U.S. soil—terrorists who went
on to become suicide hijackers on 9/11.

Clarke speculates—and readily admits he cannot prove—that the CIA
withheld the information because the agency had been trying to recruit
the terrorists, while they were living in Southern California under
their own names, to work as CIA agents inside Al Qaeda. After the
recruitment effort went sour, senior CIA officers continued to
withhold the information from the White House for fear they would be
accused of “malfeasance and misfeasance,”

The CIA insisted to the 9/11 Commission and other government
investigations that the agency never knew the exact whereabouts of the
two hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, inside the U.S.—
let alone try to recruit them as spies.

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