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A memo drafted by 9/11 Commission staffer Barbara Grewe of an interview of former FBI General Counsel Larry Parkinson. He discusses the "wall&...
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A memo drafted by 9/11 Commission staffer Barbara Grewe of an interview of former FBI General Counsel Larry Parkinson. He discusses the "wall" procedures that governed information sharing, including in relation to the Earl Pitts case and complains he sometimes had problems passing information on to other officials.
According to Parkinson, around 2000 the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review started to suggest to field intelligence agents that if there was too much contact with the DoJ's Criminal Division, a FISA warrant request might not be submitted.
Parkinson also describes an attempt to reform the 1995 Procedures that ended up petering out, as well as Judge Royce Lamberth's role, which appears to be detrimental. Lamberth imposed greater strictness, banned an agent from appearing before the court and raised the walls.
Regarding the search for 9/11 hijackers Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, Parkinson says he was not personally involved. FBI agent Dina Corsi claims one of Parkinson's associates, Sherry Sabol, told her a criminal agent could not be present at an interview of Almihdhar, if he were found. Parkinson says he would be shocked if Sabol had really said this, as there would be "no problem" with a criminal agent being present.
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