I have now obtained three documents through FOIA requests. The most interesting one is an FBI document called the Hijackers Timeline. It was 298 pages, heavily redacted and came in a tightly bound FedEx package. It contained a lot of new information about 9/11, for example we found that two of the hijackers, Khalid Almihdhar […]

Posted on February 24th, 2008 by Kevin Fenton
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Following my post about FOIA requests I made that were successful, I’m going to start listing FOIA requests I’ve made for the 9/11 Timeline that were rejected. There are quite a few of them, so this will take a while and I’ll keep updating this post.
(1) Video of the an associate of the hijackers, possibly […]

Posted on February 15th, 2008 by Kevin Fenton
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I am going to try and explain what the History Commons is doing with FOIA requests. I’ll start with the two documents that we have actually obtained, which we got based on a request for documents we think might be related to an FBI programme called “Catcher’s Mitt.” We think Catcher’s Mitt deals with surveillance […]

Posted on February 12th, 2008 by Kevin Fenton
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And how this became the rationale for the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program
The “Yemen hub” was an al-Qaeda communications hub that fell under US surveillance in the mid-late 1990s and was also home to Khalid Almihdhar, said to have been on the plane that hit the Pentagon on 9/11. There are still many unanswered questions about […]

Posted on February 9th, 2008 by Kevin Fenton
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Mamoun Darkazanli is a Hamburg-based businessman and suspected al-Qaeda operative who is said to be connected to the 1998 East African embassy bombings. He was monitored by German, Spanish and US intelligence and was close to the “Hamburg Cell” of 9/11 hijackers Mohamed Atta, Marwan Alshehhi and Ziad Jarrah. He is currently free.
Darkazanli first came […]

Posted on February 5th, 2008 by Kevin Fenton
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A new piece on MSNBC looks at the relationship between the 9/11 Commission and detainees held by the CIA who were questioned about the plot. The detainees were subjected to “enhanced interrogation techniques,” including waterboarding in some cases. The article has three main revelations.
(1) The Commission staff pretty much guessed that the CIA wasn’t being […]

Posted on February 1st, 2008 by Kevin Fenton
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