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A Republican congressman, in a letter obtained exclusively by Fox
News, accuses a senior FBI official of making misleading statements or
providing incorrect testimony about the Fort Hood massacre and about the
bureau’s contact with the American Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki
immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks.
“I am concerned that the bureau’s witness at this recent hearing, Mr.
Mark Giuliano, the executive assistant director for national security,
made comments to the committee that I believe were misleading or
incorrect with regard to the nature of findings in the Webster
Commission report and the FBI’s understanding of Anwar (Aulaqi)
al-Awlaki,” Rep. Frank Wolf wrote in the letter to FBI Director Robert
Mueller, dated Wednesday.
During testimony earlier this month before Wolf’s appropriations
subcommittee, which has oversight of the FBI, the congressman questioned
whether a decision by the FBI to let al-Awlaki walk away from a federal
arrest warrant in 2002 was evidence the bureau wanted to work on
terrorism cases with the cleric as an informant.
