CIA ORDERED VISAS FOR 9-11 HIJACKERS- US CONSULATE WHISTLEBLOWER [Video]
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
Officials told to ‘back off’ on Saudis and Bin Laden before September 11
15 Hijackers Obtained Visas in Saudi Arabia
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed secured a visa in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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.
In one case, two Pakistanis apply for visas to attend a trade show in the US, but they are unable to name the trade show or city in which it will be held. When Springmann denies them 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.” Springmann refuses, but the decision is reversed by the chief of the consular section. Springmann realizes that even the ambassador, Walter Cutler, is aware of the situation, which becomes “more brazen and blatant” as time goes on. On one occasion Springmann is even told, “If you want a job in the State Department in future, you will change your mind.”
Mike Springman — US consulate and foreign service official
Springman went public (after internal efforts failed) to expose the State Dept/CIA conduiting terrorists into the US.