A Playboy.com Exclusive: Investigative Journalist Peter Lance Reveals the Inside Story of His Battle With Patrick Fitzgerald
CHICAGO, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- In Playboy.com's "The Chilling Effect," investigative journalist Peter Lance exclusively discusses how his book, Triple Cross: How Bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI, drew the ire of Patrick Fitzgerald, the most formidable prosecutor in the United States, and how Fitzgerald tried to kill the paperback edition.
The book (Harper; Trade Paperback; On sale: June 16, 2009; $16.99) uncovers the story of how Ali Mohamed, a master spy for Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist network, managed to infiltrate the deepest levels of the U.S. intelligence community in the years leading up to the 9/11 attacks - and how the FBI's elite bin Laden squad failed to stop him. In this expanded paperback edition, Lance updates his groundbreaking investigation and details how Fitzgerald succeeded in holding up the publication of the paperback edition for more than 20 months.
"The book he [Fitzgerald] wants to kill documents for the first time the mistakes he and others made from 1996 forward as Osama bin Laden plotted his attack on the U.S.," states Lance, a five-time Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter and former correspondent for ABC News. "In short, the SDNY [Southern District of New York] had more than five years prior warning of Ramzi Yousef's hijacking scenario."
