"Jane" brought the surveillance pictures. At some point in the meeting she
showed the photographs to the agents and asked whether they recognized
Quso in any of them. The agents asked questions about the photographs--
Why were they taken? Why were these people being followed? Where are the
rest of the photographs?
however, contained caveats that their contents could not be shared with crim-
inal investigators without the permission of the Justice Department's Office of
Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR).Therefore "Jane" concluded that she
could not pass on information from those reports to the agents.This decision
was potentially significant, because the signals intelligence she did not share
linked Mihdhar to a suspected terrorist facility in the Middle East.The agents
would have established a link to the suspected facility from their work on the
embassy bombings case. This link would have made them very interested in
learning more about Mihdhar.
he intended to travel to New York, that Hazmi had traveled to Los Angeles,
and that a source had put Mihdhar in the company of Khallad. No one at the
meeting asked him what he knew; he did not volunteer anything. He told
investigators that as a CIA analyst, he was not authorized to answer FBI ques-
tions regarding CIA information."Jane" said she assumed that if "Dave" knew
the answers to questions, he would have volunteered them. The New York
agents left the meeting without obtaining information that might have started
them looking for Mihdhar.
the entire plan--for to continue with the operation, Mihdhar would have to
travel to the United States again.And unlike other operatives, Mihdhar was not
"clean": he had jihadist connections. It was just such connections that had
brought him to the attention of U.S. officials.
to New York City on July 4. No one was looking for him.
During the summer of 2001 "John," following a good instinct but not as part
of any formal assignment, asked "Mary," an FBI analyst detailed to the CIA's
Bin Ladin unit, to review all the Kuala Lumpur materials one more time. She
had been at the New York meeting with "Jane" and "Dave" but had not