Thomas Pickard

From 9/11 Encyclopedia:

From a GROUND ZERO Forum article, originally released at Scoop: http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0208/S00068.htm#e "

...Thomas Pickard took over the job of FBI Director Louis J. Freeh in August 2001, but held this position only for a couple of weeks before Richard Mueller became Director. Just as he did for FBI-HQ Dale Watson, former Terror Task Force chief John O'Neill complained about sabotage by Pickard. But because O'Neill's story was never discussed in public, Pickard was never asked about this point. 

What exactly "went wrong," causing Pickard to ignore the various warnings about a possible terrorist attack and the memos from Williams about the flying lessons by Muslims and the arrest of Habib Zacarias Moussaoui? 

We should take a look at Pickard's career to find a possible answer on this. Pickard started his career as an agent in the FBI's New York office in 1975 and went on to work on a number of high-profile cases. Pickard went undercover and offered congressmen bribes as part of the 1979 Abscam probe and supervised the FBI's role in trials in the first World Trade Center attack and the arrest of Ramzi Youssef, charged with plotting to blow up U.S. airliners. He helped oversee the investigation into the explosion of TWA Flight 800, the espionage investigation of former FBI agent Earl Edwin Pitts and the capture in Pakistan of Mir Aimal Kasi, who was convicted of killing CIA workers at a traffic light outside the agency's headquarters. 

Now this specialist Pickard claims he never heard about the memos by Williams and Rowley. Even with all these connections? The Washington Post seemed to believe this too: "The Phoenix memo was circulated only among counterterrorism divisions in New York and at Washington headquarters. It was not shown to then-acting director Thomas J. Pickard or other senior FBI managers, officials said." http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A39218-2002May18Found=true

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