Reply #15: Important topic: FBI Deputy director John O'Neill ("The Man Who Knew")

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was investigating the Cole bombing under Clinton and was virtually shunned by the Bush admin. He was "resignated" in July or so 2001 and, purportedly, died in the WTC. He and Clarke were good friends. There is a distinct pattern of the Bush admin marginalizing people who were serious about fighting terrorism.


"The Man Who Knew" is the title of a Frontline piece on O'Neill.



The main obstacles to investigating Islamic terrorism were U.S. corporate oil interests and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it.
-- ex-FBI Deputy Director John P. O’Neill - late July 2001 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4321860-103677,00.html) statement made to French authors Jean Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquié, authors of "Forbidden Truth"