Lawyers for terror

by J Michael Waller / New York Post / October 17, 2007. HERE’S a new twist in the Blackwater story: A legal group with a four-decade record of aiding and abetting terrorists, spies and cop-killers is suing the company. Joining it is an Egyptian attorney who has been representing what the U.S. Treasury Department calls a fund-raising … Read more

Domestic front in the war on terror

by J Michael Waller, Insight, January 7, 2002. [Note: This article identified Abdurahman Alamoudi as a danger to the US while the US leadership was treating him as a VIP and as a chief liaison with the Muslim community. Alamoudi is now serving a lengthy federal prison sentence on terrorism-related crimes.] The brochure warns: “Don’t talk … Read more

Blinded vigilance: How Deutch and Tenet helped weaken CIA prior to 9/11

by J. Michael Waller, Insight magazine, October 15, 2001 While the terrorists and their sponsors were plotting to hijack airliners and crash them into Manhattan skyscrapers and the Pentagon, senior CIA officials were compelling analysts and operations officers to attend sensitivity-training classes and sew diversity quilts. That is a fact. It also is a metaphor for why … Read more