Probe prompted by Washington Times report
A special panel recently authorized by Congress to review the FBI's
efforts to reform itself in the aftermath of the 9/11 Commission report
will examine the case of a mole the agency had in direct contact with
Osama bin Laden during the early 1990s, a key congressman said
Wednesday.
The existence of the FBI mole and his dealings with bin
Laden were omitted from the official investigations into the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks but were disclosed in an exclusive report Wednesday
morning in The Washington Times.
Rep. Frank R. Wolf, Virginia
Republican and chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee that
funds the FBI, said the panel would take a close look at what came of
the human source that the FBI's Los Angeles field office cultivated in
1993. The source's contributions, which included helping thwart a
terrorist plot in Los Angeles, were never mentioned in the more than
500-page official report published in 2004 by the National Commission on
Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.
In an interview with
The Times on Wednesday evening, Mr. Wolf said the details surrounding
the source represent "exactly the type of activity" that the newly
established panel will examine.
The panel, which is also being
dubbed a "commission," was created in late January under language Mr.
Wolf crafted for Congress' 2013 omnibus appropriations bill that
President Obama ultimately signed into law.
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