Springman went public (after internal efforts failed) to expose the State Dept/CIA conduiting terrorists into the US
BBC News Source: "former head of the American visa bureau in Jeddah is Michael Springman".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/events/newsnight/1645527.stm
Thirteen of the 15 Saudi hijackers were issued visas to the United States, 10 of them at the US Consulate in Jeddah, according to US officials.
http://www.boston.com/news/packages/underattack/news/driving_a_wedge/part1.shtml
Officials told to 'back off' on Saudis and Bin Laden before September 11
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/nov/07/afghanistan.september11
CBC News transcript- Michael Springman
"this operation in Jeddah was so peculiar, so strange, and it went against anything I had ever seen or heard in my 20 years in government, that I thought that what these people were telling me about CIA involvement with Osama, and with Afghanistan had to be true because nothing else would fit. By the attempts to cover me up and shut me down, this convinced me more and more that this was not a pipe-dream, this was not a machination, this was not a conspiracy theory."
http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/springmaninterview.htm
BBC News: Michael Springman
In Saudi Arabia I was repeatedly ordered by high level State Dept officials to issue visas to unqualified applicants. These were, essentially, people who had no ties either to Saudi Arabia or to their own country. I complained bitterly at the time there. I returned to the US, I complained to the State Dept here, to the General Accounting Office, to the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and to the Inspector General's office. I was met with silence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/events/newsnight/1645527.stm
Michael Springman Tv 1/4:
CIA Ordered Visas For 15 of The 19 9/11 Hijackers in Jeddah
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmjAg_-Vi9Y
9/11 Citizens' Commission - Michael Springman
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSebMjd50u0
Israeli security issued urgent warning to CIA of large-scale terror attacks
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1340698/Israeli-se...
15 Hijackers Obtained Visas in Saudi Arabia
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&conte...
C.I.A. Was Tracking Hijacker Months Earlier Than It Had Said
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/03/us/cia-was-tracking-hijacker-months-earlier...
Hijackers 'trailed by CIA before attacks'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/jun/03/usa.september11
C.I.A. Was Tracking Hijacker Months Earlier Than It Had Said
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/03/us/cia-was-tracking-hijacker-months-earlier...
CIA Didn't Share Info About 9/11 Hijackers
abc news: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=129563&page=1#.Tv5tFdWwVM0
Hijackers Lived With FBI Informant
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/09/attack/main521223.shtml
Sept 9 2001: Bin Laden/Afgan War Plan was on Bush's desk
cbs news: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19tnCIBJtJQ
Hijack 'suspects' alive and well
BBC news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1559151.stm
abc news: The political journal National Review obtained the visa applications for 15 of the 19 hijackers — and evidence that all of them should have been denied entry to the country.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=130051&page=1#.Tv59NNWwVM0
CNN: Six months after Sept. 11, hijackers' visa approval letters received http://articles.cnn.com/2002-03-12/us/inv.flight.school.visas_1_huffman-aviat...
Washington Post: Hijackers Got Visas With Little Scrutiny
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&conte...
9/11 commission report: 4 of the hijackers passports were found on 9/11
http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/staff_statement_1.pdf
great sources:
http://visasforterrorists.blogspot.com/
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed secured a visa in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
http://articles.cnn.com/2004-08-22/politics/911.commission_1_final-report-hij...
When Springmann denies a visa, he gets "an almost immediate call from a CIA case officer, hidden in the commercial section [of the consulate], that I should reverse myself and grant these guys a visa."
Source: CBC Archive
http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpWESSEX/Documents/springmaninterview.htm
Video Source/Credit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgYFo79q1Ek
