At least two 9/11 hijackers had been recruited into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation that was covered up at the highest level, according to an explosive new court filing. A newly-released court filing raises grave questions about the relationship between Alec Station, a CIA unit set up to track Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and his associates, and two 9/11 hijackers leading up to the attacks, which was subject to a coverup at the highest levels of the FBI. […]
Afaik that's par for the course for the pre-9/11 CIA and why reining them in and bringing them back under control of the Executive and Congress has been a recurring theme decade after decade. Back in the old days the CIA was notorious for acting on it's own, using all kinds of criminal fronts to secure it's own funding (very illegally), doing things without informing any of the people who were supposed to be overseeing them.
It's a big part of the reason there was such a big shakeup in how US Intelligence operated post-9/11. They'd finally fucked up in such a huge, obvious, undeniable way that the government both couldn't ignore it and had a sufficient big stick to club them in to submission with.
Afaik that's par for the course for the pre-9/11 CIA and why reining them in and bringing them back under control of the Executive and Congress has been a recurring theme decade after decade. Back in the old days the CIA was notorious for acting on it's own, using all kinds of criminal fronts to secure it's own funding (very illegally), doing things without informing any of the people who were supposed to be overseeing them.
It's a big part of the reason there was such a big shakeup in how US Intelligence operated post-9/11. They'd finally fucked up in such a huge, obvious, undeniable way that the government both couldn't ignore it and had a sufficient big stick to club them in to submission with.