January 10, 2003

Politics: Where's Osama bin Laden's Presidential Citation?

The FBI agent who stymied field office attempts to investigate Zacarias Moussaoui has been rewarded with a presidential citation and a cash bonus.

Remember now that, potentially, had the FBI not had its head up its ass, they could very well have followed up on information retrieved in AUGUST 2001 -- BEFORE THE AIRPLANES HIT THE BUILDINGS -- and potentially stopped those terrible events.

But instead, the unit led by Marion "Spike" Bowman (his actual nickname) screwed around with the Minneapolis field office's request. Read:

Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, the senior Republican on the Intelligence Committee during its oversight investigation of the FBI, complained last month - just days before Bowman won the award - that Bowman's law unit provided ''inexcusably confused and inaccurate information'' to FBI investigators in Minneapolis during the Moussaoui case.

Shelby said in an 84-page report that the FBI unit's advice turned out to be ''patently false'' and led agents in Minnesota on a ''wild goose chase for nearly three weeks.''

Kind of leaves you speechless. Bowman received a presidential citation and a bonus equal to 20-30% of his salary.

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