United States Senate
Senate Judiciary Committee On The “Phoenix Memo”
Started 2002-05-21Ended 2002-05-21
The Senate Judiciary Committee met with the author of the "Phoenix memo" which had found Arabs enrolled in flight classes inside the United States with ties to Osama Bin Laden.
The committee commended the memo’s author Kenneth Williams for such a through document, but questioned the FBI Director Robert Mueller how the memo was not followed up on even though it was sent to around twelve other people in the FBI. Mueller who claimed he was only made aware of the memo days after September 11th that no one in the FBI knows why the memo was not acted upon.
The committee commended the memo’s author Kenneth Williams for such a through document, but questioned the FBI Director Robert Mueller how the memo was not followed up on even though it was sent to around twelve other people in the FBI. Mueller who claimed he was only made aware of the memo days after September 11th that no one in the FBI knows why the memo was not acted upon.