{"id":2333,"date":"2024-11-08T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2025-01-05T21:38:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T04:38:58","slug":"al-qaeda-the-mob-how-the-fbi-blew-it-on-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=2333","title":{"rendered":"HuffPost: Al Qaeda &#038; the mob. Why The FBI Blew it on 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"HuffPost%3A%20Al%20Qaeda%20%26%20the%20mob.%20Why%20The%20FBI%20Blew%20it%20on%209%2F11\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-13-at-12.20.37-PM1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10496\" title=\"Screen Shot 2017-06-13 at 12.20.37 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-13-at-12.20.37-PM1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-13-at-12.20.37-PM1.png 540w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-13-at-12.20.37-PM1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Peter Lance<\/strong>\u00a0<a title=\"HuffPost\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/peter-lance\/al-qaeda-and-the-mob-how-_b_34336.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>THE HUFFINGTON POST<\/strong> <\/a>After whacking &#8220;Big Paul&#8221; Castellano and taking control of the Gambino Family in 1985 John Gotti set up headquarters at The Ravenite Social Club &#8211; located on the ground floor of a five story brick building at 227 Mulberry St. in Little Italy. Over the next seven years, the FBI&#8217;s New York Office (NYO) conducted an around the clock surveillance of the site: taking pictures of The Dapper Don in the street outside the club from a plant or &#8220;perch&#8221; across the street, bugging his phones and planting dozens of surveillance devices in the building owned by Gambino wiseguy Joseph &#8220;Joe The Cat&#8221; LaForte.<a title=\"Huff Post Al Qaeda &amp; the mob\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/peter-lance\/al-qaeda-and-the-mob-how-_b_34336.html\">\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/peter-lance\/al-qaeda-and-the-mob-how-_b_34336.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4658\" title=\"Screen Shot 2014-08-14 at 2.15.41 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-14-at-2.15.41-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"53\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-14-at-2.15.41-PM.png 306w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-14-at-2.15.41-PM-300x51.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"HuffPost%3A%20Al%20Qaeda%20%26%20the%20mob.%20Why%20The%20FBI%20Blew%20it%20on%209%2F11\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; By Peter Lance\u00a0THE HUFFINGTON POST After whacking &#8220;Big Paul&#8221; Castellano and taking control of the Gambino Family in 1985 John Gotti set up headquarters at The Ravenite Social Club &#8211; located on the ground floor of a five story brick building at 227 Mulberry St. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,15],"tags":[125,330,467,122,479,1223,400,478,151,391,372,383,114,172,1211,388,454,387,109,380,110,119,401,395,382,113,386,252,106,108,393,470,481,375,390,311,472,377,373,392,379,249,402,111,115,381,116,374,462,397,399,406,118,105,167,384,385,107,376,126,291,1219,1220,480,468,469,317,473,121,461,471,398,396,251,250,112,1214,1222,463,389,117,394,371,378,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13343,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions\/13343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}