Ken Williams in Podcasts
personFBI agent who investigated the arson case and expressed strong negative feelings towards Mark Sands.
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The guys Ken had been watching weren't on the planes, but they moved in the same al-Qaeda circles. Two of the 9-11 hijackers had been based in Arizona in the months prior. If he hadn't been reassigned to the arson case, Ken believes he would have been able to identify them.
It's Ken, possibly before anyone else in the country, who understands exactly what's going on.
In July, Ken Williams writes an urgent note to the FBI higher-ups, which would become known as the infamous Phoenix Memo. He sends it to the FBI Counterterrorism Office in D.C. and the New York Bureau, too. And he asks that it be shared with the broader intelligence community and with our foreign allies.
The FBI saw this potential case of eco-terror in Phoenix as the bigger priority. And so they gave Ken's expertise to the Arson Task Force. And to this day, Ken hates Mark Sands for that.
You might remember around the time the arson spree really took off in fall 2000, Ken was working a confidential source. This informant told him about two students up in Prescott, Arizona. These students, according to Ken's source, were Islamic extremists recruiting others to their cause.
For Ken, all of this is tied up with another case he was working on at the time, the one that his boss pulled him off to go work on the arson case.
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