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   After a lengthy investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller   
   charged Russia made “multiple, systematic efforts to interfere   
   in our election” and said the incursion “deserves the attention   
   of every American.”   
      
   But former FBI investigators say their old boss didn’t feel the   
   same concern when they uncovered multiple, systemic efforts by   
   the Saudi government to assist the hijackers in the lead-up to   
   the 9/11 attacks — a far more consequential, to say nothing of   
   deadly, foreign influence operation on America.   
      
   As the head of the FBI at the time, they say Mueller was not   
   nearly as interested in investigating that espionage conspiracy,   
   which also involved foreign intelligence officers. Far from it,   
   the record shows he covered up evidence pointing back to the   
   Saudi Embassy and Riyadh — and may have even misled Congress   
   about what he knew.   
      
   9/11 victims agree. “He was the master when it came to covering   
   up the kingdom’s role in 9/11,” said survivor Sharon Premoli,   
   who was pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center 18   
   years ago.   
      
   “In October of 2001, Mueller shut down the government’s   
   investigation after only three weeks, and then took part in the   
   Bush [administration’s] campaign to block, obfuscate and   
   generally stop anything about Saudi Arabia from being released,”   
   added Premoli, now a plaintiff in the 9/11 lawsuit against Saudi   
   Arabia.   
      
   In fact, Mueller threw up roadblocks in the path of his own   
   investigators working the 9/11 case, while making it easier for   
   Saudi suspects to escape questioning, multiple case agents told   
   me. Then he deep-sixed what evidence his agents did manage to   
   uncover, according to the 9/11 lawsuit against the Saudis.   
      
   Time and again, agents were called off from pursuing leads back   
   to the kingdom’s embassy in Washington, as well as its consulate   
   in Los Angeles, where former FBI Agent Stephen Moore headed a   
   9/11 task force looking into local contacts made by two of the   
   15 Saudi hijackers, Moore testified in an affidavit for the 9/11   
   lawsuit. He concluded that “diplomatic and intelligence   
   personnel of Saudi Arabia knowingly provided material support to   
   the two hijackers and facilitated the 9/11 plot.” Yet he and his   
   team were not allowed to interview them, according to the suit.   
      
   In Washington, former FBI Agent John Guandolo, who worked terror   
   cases out of the bureau’s DC office, said then-Saudi Ambassador   
   Prince Bandar “should have been treated as a terrorist suspect”   
   for giving money to a woman who funded two of the 9/11   
   hijackers. But he was never questioned either, Guandolo said.   
      
   Instead, Mueller obliged what Guandolo called an “outrageous   
   request” from Bandar within days of the attacks to help evacuate   
   from the country dozens of Saudi officials, including at least   
   one Osama bin Laden relative on the terror watch list. Mueller   
   assured their safe passage to planes, using agents as personal   
   escorts, according to FBI documents obtained by Judicial Watch.   
   Agents who should have been interrogating the Saudis instead   
   acted as their bodyguards.   
      
   In 2002, Mueller prevented agents from arresting the Saudi-   
   sponsored al Qaeda cleric who privately counseled the Saudi   
   hijackers, said Raymond Fournier, an agent with the Joint   
   Terrorism Task Force in San Diego at the time. “He was   
   responsible for vacating the arrest warrant for Anwar al-Awlaki   
   for passport fraud,” Fournier said. He even ordered agents who   
   detained the fiend at JFK to release him into the custody of a   
   “Saudi representative,” Fournier said. The FBI closed their   
   investigation of Awlaki, who was allowed to leave the US on a   
   Saudi plane. “Shortly thereafter, the Fort Hood shooting   
   occurred and Awlaki’s fingerprints were all over that incident,”   
   said former FBI Agent Michael Biasello, who helped work the   
   Texas terror case.   
      
   At the same time, Mueller removed a veteran agent from   
   investigating a tip that an adviser to the Saudi royal family   
   had met with some of the Saudi hijackers at his home in   
   Sarasota, Fla., effectively killing the case, according to the   
   lawsuit. The home was suddenly abandoned two weeks before 9/11.   
      
   Mueller even tried to shut down a congressional investigation   
   into the Saudi hijackers and their contacts in LA and San Diego,   
   said Bob Graham, who led the joint inquiry as Senate   
   Intelligence Committee chair. “The strongest objections” to his   
   staff investigators visiting FBI offices there came from the FBI   
   director himself, said Graham, in a 2017 interview with Harper’s   
      
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