Judicial Watch Exposes FBI Cover-up
JW Client Threatened Over The O'Reilly Factor Appearance

What does the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have to hide? FBI Special Agent Robert Wright knows the answer. Which is precisely why the bureau threatened to fire Special Agent Wright if he appeared, as scheduled, on FOX News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor on March 4. Special Agent Wright opted not to participate in the interview for fear of losing his job.

"Agent Wright was told he would be charged with insubordination if he appeared on The Factor,” O’Reilly informed his audience. "That’s a very disturbing threat."

Special Agent Wright was scheduled to talk about Muslim agent Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, who refused to tape record conversations with Muslim terror suspects. "A Muslim does not record another Muslim," the agent told supervisors. One of the
terror suspects Hafiz refused to record was tied to Osama bin Laden and the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa. According to multiple news agencies, this same agent also hindered a probe of University of South Florida professor Sami al-Arian, who was arrested in February for funneling money to terrorist organizations.

Special Agent Wright felt Hafiz violated his oath by refusing to carry out his investigations and complained both to his superiors and to the national office in Washington, DC. Both sided with Hafiz, telling Special Agent Wright that he should make a better effort to "understand" the Muslim agent¹s "perspective." When Special Agent Wright decided to go public with the truth about this and other matters pertaining to the FBI’s mishandling of terrorism investigations, the FBI launched a campaign to silence him. First, they blocked the publication of a manuscript written by Special Agent Wright, and then later attempted to prevent him from meeting with Congressional investigators who were probing the intelligence failures leading up to September 11. JW is pursuing a federal lawsuit against the FBI in order to allow Special Agent Wright the freedom to tell the truth to the American people.

"The FBI has an agent in its midst that shut down an important investigation into Osama bin Laden because of admitted Muslim sympathies," said JW Chairman Larry Klayman. "And now the FBI threatens retaliation against Special Agent Wright for exposing this lie. This is a cover up plain and simple. Judicial Watch will get the truth out."

Special Agent Robert Wright is one of the most knowledgeable people in the FBI when it comes to terrorism. He is also the only FBI agent to have seized funds (over $1.4 million) from U.S.-based terrorists using federal civil forfeiture statutes prior to September 11. Fortunately, John Vincent, a retired FBI Special Agent of 27 years and the Director of Judicial Watch’s Midwestern Regional Headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, appeared on The O’Reilly Factor instead, along with Judicial Watch’s National Advisor David Schippers. (See Media Page.)