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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 421
be the attack carried out on September 11th
. They were not only obstructed but also threatened
with the National Security Act. Which is to say, if they talked about any of the information
pertaining to their investigations, they would be prosecuted and imprisoned. This resulted in
many of them seeking the council of Mr. Schippers. They wanted to get somebody in the US
government to take action against these terrorists before their plan could be implemented.
These agents had discovered the names of at least some of the hijackers, they had
identified the target as lower Manhattan, they had identified the terrorists' funding sources and in
May of 2001 they knew the attacks were getting near.
Mr. Schippers relayed the warning to many Congressmen and Senators; he desired to
have them subpoena the FBI agents to testify about what they knew. Because of the National
Security Act they could not speak without being subpoenaed. This never happened. Mr.
Schippers also tried to get in contact with Attorney General John Ashcroft. A deputy of the
Attorney General contacted him instead. Because the National Security Act had been invoked
against Mr. Shippers clients (the agents), he was limited in what he could say. He could only
reveal public information. After a brief conversation he was told, “We don't start our
investigations with the Attorney General.” The deputy further stated, “Let me look into this, and
I'll have somebody get back to you right away.” That was on July 15, 2001 and nobody ever
called back. One of the agents remarked to Mr. Schippers after September 11, 2001 that if he and
his fellow agents had been permitted to continue their investigations, “9-11 would never have
happened.”
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William Norman Grigg's was able to interview three FBI agents for The New American
and confirm “that the information provided to Schippers was widely known within the Bureau
before September 11th.” They were interviewed under the condition of anonymity because they
feared reprisal from the government. Two of the agents expressed a willingness to testify before
Congress if summoned. Griggs writes:
An active federal counter-terrorism investigator told THE NEW
AMERICAN that it was well known “all over the Bureau, how these [warnings]
were ignored by Washington.... All indications are that this information came
from some of [the Bureau's] most experienced guys, people who have devoted
their lives to this kind of work. But their warnings were placed in a pile in
someone's office in Washington.... In some cases, these field agents predicted,
almost precisely, what happened on September 11th.”...
“I don't buy the idea that we didn't know what was coming,” a former FBI
official with extensive counter-terrorism experience commented to THE NEW
AMERICAN. “Within 24 hours [of the attack] the Bureau had about 20 people
identified, and photos were sent out to the news media. Obviously this
information was available in the files and somebody was sitting on it.”...
According to the former FBI agent quoted above, the Bureau could have
prevented the Black Tuesday massacre if it had adequately investigated the
Middle East connection to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. This assessment is
supported by another former FBI agent who spoke with this magazine.
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