FBI Covers Up Terror Camps in Chicago
and Kansas City

Members of the House and Senate intelligence committees refuse FBI requests to take lie-detector tests to reveal the source of a leak about Sept. 11. Some fret about separation of powers and FBI intimidation, but Sen. Trent Lott finds it ironic that the panel is complaining after requesting the inquiry. Meanwhile, learn why the FBI is stifling whistle-blowing agent Robert Wright.

August 2, 2002

The FBI is trying to silence whistle-blowing FBI Special Agent Robert G. Wright Jr., reports LA Weekly. His crime: "accused the agency of shutting down his 1998 criminal probe into alleged terrorist-training camps in Chicago and Kansas City."

"The apparent goal of the training camps, according to confidential documents obtained by the Weekly, was to recruit and train Palestinian-American youths, who would then slip into Israel."

Link to Oklahoma City Bombing?

Recruits at the camps reportedly were trained to use weapons and make bombs. "The bomb-making curriculum included the sort of explosives later used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. And government documents state that two trainees came from the Oklahoma City area."

The U.S. government insists there was no Middle Eastern involvement in Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the federal courthouse in 1995. But the FBI did not fully investigate information to the contrary, the newspaper quotes anonymous law-enforcement and government sources as saying.

"There's also another troubling question: Why has the FBI dismissed or ignored evidence linking the Oklahoma City bombing to the Middle East?" asks LA Weekly.

"Robert Wright's story is difficult to piece together because he is on government orders to remain silent. And by extension so are his attorneys when it comes to confidential information. Wright has written a book, but the agency won't let him publish it or even give it to anyone."

Contrast this shabby treatment to the worship accorded FBI whistle-blower Coleen Rowley. Why doesn't the Senate roll out the red carpet for Wright?

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