ROBERT MUELLER HELPED SAUDI ARABIA COVER

UP ITS ROLE IN 9/11 ATTACKS

By Paul Sperry

_Originally Published on the New York Post [1]_

After a lengthy investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller charged
Russia made "multiple, systematic efforts to interfere in our election" and
said the incursion "deserves the attention of every American."

But former FBI investigators say their old boss didn't feel the same
concern when they uncovered multiple, systemic efforts by the Saudi
government to assist the hijackers in the lead-up to the 9/11 attacks -- a
far more consequential, to say nothing of deadly, foreign influence
operation on America.

As the head of the FBI at the time, they say Mueller was not nearly as
interested in investigating that espionage conspiracy, which also involved
foreign intelligence officers. Far from it, the record shows he covered up
evidence pointing back to the Saudi Embassy and Riyadh -- and may have even
misled Congress about what he knew.

9/11 victims agree. "He was the master when it came to covering up the
kingdom's role in 9/11," said survivor Sharon Premoli, who was pulled from
the rubble of the World Trade Center 18 years ago.

"In October of 2001, Mueller shut down the government's investigation after
only three weeks, and then took part in the Bush [administration's]
campaign to block, obfuscate and generally stop anything about Saudi Arabia
from being released," added Premoli, now a plaintiff in the 9/11 lawsuit
against Saudi Arabia.

In fact, Mueller threw up roadblocks in the path of his own investigators
working the 9/11 case, while making it easier for Saudi suspects to escape
questioning, multiple case agents told me. Then he deep-sixed what evidence
his agents did manage to uncover, according to the 9/11 lawsuit against the
Saudis.

* Time and again, agents were called off from pursuing leads back to the
kingdom's embassy in Washington, as well as its consulate in Los Angeles,
where former FBI Agent Stephen Moore headed a 9/11 task force looking into
local contacts made by two of the 15 Saudi hijackers, Moore testified in an
affidavit for the 9/11 lawsuit. He concluded that "diplomatic and
intelligence personnel of Saudi Arabia knowingly provided material support
to the two hijackers and facilitated the 9/11 plot." Yet he and his team
were not allowed to interview them, according to the suit.
* In Washington, former FBI Agent John Guandolo, who worked terror cases
out of the bureau's DC office, said then-Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar
"should have been treated as a terrorist suspect" for giving money to a
woman who funded two of the 9/11 hijackers. But he was never questioned
either, Guandolo said.
* Instead, Mueller obliged what Guandolo called an "outrageous request"
from Bandar within days of the attacks to help evacuate from the country
dozens of Saudi officials, including at least one Osama bin Laden relative
on the terror watch list. Mueller assured their safe passage to planes,
using agents as personal escorts, according to FBI documents obtained by
Judicial Watch. Agents who should have been interrogating the Saudis
instead acted as their bodyguards.
* In 2002, Mueller prevented agents from arresting the Saudi-sponsored al
Qaeda cleric who privately counseled the Saudi hijackers, said Raymond
Fournier, an agent with the Joint Terrorism Task Force in San Diego at the
time. "He was responsible for vacating the arrest warrant for Anwar
al-Awlaki for passport fraud," Fournier said. He even ordered agents who
detained the fiend at JFK to release him into the custody of a "Saudi
representative," Fournier said. The FBI closed their investigation of
Awlaki, who was allowed to leave the US on a Saudi plane. "Shortly
thereafter, the Fort Hood shooting occurred and Awlaki's fingerprints were
all over that incident," said former FBI Agent Michael Biasello, who helped
work the Texas terror case.
* At the same time, Mueller removed a veteran agent from investigating a
tip that an adviser to the Saudi royal family had met with some of the
Saudi hijackers at his home in Sarasota, Fla., effectively killing the
case, according to the lawsuit. The home was suddenly abandoned two weeks
before 9/11.
* Mueller even tried to shut down a congressional investigation into the
Saudi hijackers and their contacts in LA and San Diego, said Bob Graham,
who led the joint inquiry as Senate Intelligence Committee chair. "The
strongest objections" to his staff investigators visiting FBI offices there
came from the FBI director himself, said Graham, in a 2017 interview with
Harper's magazine. Among other things, Mueller refused their demands to
question a paid FBI informant who roomed with the hijackers and even moved
him to a safe house where they couldn't find him, Graham said. Mueller,
with the White House, redacted 28 pages detailing Saudi-9/11 ties from the
congressional report.
* He also gave testimony to Congress that was, at the very least,
misleading. In an October 2002 closed-door hearing, Mueller claimed he
found out about Saudi-9/11 connections only as a result of the joint
inquiry's investigative work: "[S]ome facts came to light here and to me,
frankly, that had not come to light before." Only, Moore said he gave
Mueller "daily" briefings on such connections in 2001. Mueller also
testified the hijackers "contacted no known terrorist sympathizers in the
United States," even though the FBI's own case files showed they had
contact with at least 14 terrorist suspects and sympathizers in the US
prior to 9/11, including some working for the Saudi government. (In later
testimony, he tried to walk this back, insisting he "had no intent to
mislead.")

While the Beltway media have portrayed Mueller as a by-the-book former
Marine whose integrity is as square as his lantern-shaped jaw -- a cop who
can't be compromised -- others know better.

He's a villain, and an arrogant one to boot," former FBI Agent Mark Wauck
said, adding that his former boss has a long history of acting as a
"servant of the deep state," or the permanent DC ruling class.

A Mueller spokesman declined to comment. But some agents say he was merely
following White House orders.

"Any letting the Saudis off the hook came from the White House," former
Agent Mark Rossini said. "I can still see that photo of Bandar and Bush
enjoying cigars on the balcony of the White House two days after 9/11."

Still, others note the hypocrisy of Mueller going after President Trump for
conspiring with a foreign enemy.

"Bottom line is, Mueller did not do an investigation on people involved in
the 9/11 attacks who were connected to the Saudi government," a former US
counterintelligence official asserted. "Maybe if they were Russians, he
would be interested. But he was not interested in investigating [Saudi]
terrorists who murdered Americans."

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