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Could 9/11 Have Been Prevented By WikiLeaks?

Neon Tommy |
October 15, 2010 | 10:47 a.m. PDT

WikiLeaks might have stopped the 9/11 attacks from happening, argue two form federal agents in Friday's edition of the Los Angeles Times. Coleen Rowley, an ex-FBI Agent, and Bodgan Dzakovic, a former FAA Special Agent, write that "things might have been different if there had been a quick, confidential way to get information out," before September 11, 2001.

Rowley worked with an FBI team in Minneapolis that helped arrest Zacarias Moussaoui on immigration charges a month prior to the terrorist attacks. According to the pair, the special agent who detained Moussaoi wanted to search his laptop and other personal affects, but was turned down by FBI officials in Washington. One supervisor even pleaded, to no avail, that "he was 'trying to keep someone from taking a plane and crashing it into the World Trade Center." 

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