Fitzgerald libel threat aimed at censoring key 9/11 tale
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Powerful prosecutor’s efforts to suppress book virtually guarantees elevated sales
Peter Lance should be thanking Patrick Fitzgerald right now, even as the attorney’s checks are being signed.
If it were not for the U.S. Attorney who famously prosecuted I. Lewis “Scooter†Libby, the former Vice President’s Chief of Staff, the re-release of Lance’s stunning tale of mishandled espionage leading up to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, might be overlooked.
The former ABC News investigative reporter’s book Triple Cross hit relatively few shelves in 2006 as a hardcover and left retail quietly, almost completely ignored. Now, with its paperback release looming, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is threatening to sue over material which he calls “defamatory†and “easily proven to be objectively false,†some of which touches on little known information relating to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
“While some contend that Mohamed’s intimate relations with the FBI and CIA are proof of government involvement in a 9/11 plot, Lance says that it was instead embarrassment and ass-covering on the part of Justice and Pentagon officials over the mishandling of Ali Mohammed that led first to a conspiracy of silence and then to a conspiracy to cover up their incompetence and deception,