John Podhoretz at The Corner;
It behaved disgracefully and in a nakedly partisan fashion, with former officials of the Clinton administration attempting to use the platform to damage the president's reelection chances. Then, after months of ludicrous conduct, out of nowhere came the brilliantly conceived and written report that set a new standard of eloquence and coherence for government documents, became a major bestseller and redeemed the commission's reputation.Well, that didn't last long.
In a story filed at 7:10 PM, the Associated Press is now confirming all the particulars of what will now forever be called the Able Danger disaster. The 9/11 Commission staff did hear about intelligence-gathering efforts that hit pay dirt on the whereabouts of Mohammed Atta -- in 1999 -- and deliberately chose to omit word of those efforts.
And why? Because to do so might upset the timeline the Commission had established on Atta.
And why is that significant? Because the Mohammed Atta timeline established by the Commission pointedly insisted Atta did not meet with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague.
And why is that significant? Because debunking the Atta-Iraq connection was of vital importance to Democrats, who had become focused almost obsessively on the preposterous notion that there was no relation whatever between Al Qaeda and Iraq -- that Al Qaeda and Iraq might even have been enemies.
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...or scan the headlines in your daily newspaper, the links below may be a series of rude eye-openers. A Guide To Able Danger Posts At Captain's Quarters (one of many) Protect Us, But Don't Look at Us @ Thumos Able Danger and Jamie Gor...
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Mohammed Atta & etc. identified previous to 9/11.
No action taken.
Clinton Scandal Emerging.
Could be bigger than Watergate scandal.
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House Floor Statement by Rep Weldon. June 27,2005( Ignored by the MSM ) Full Trancript, Long read
Congressional Record ^ | 27 June, 2005 | Congressional Record
Posted on 08/12/2005 4:33:33 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
[Congressional Record: June 27, 2005 (House)] [Page H5243-H5250] From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:cr27jn05-122]
U.S. INTELLIGENCE
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. McHenry). Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 4, 2005, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Weldon) is recognized for 44 minutes...
Excerpt:
Two weeks after 9/11, my friends from the Army's Information Dominance Center in cooperation with special ops brought me a chart. This chart, Mr. Speaker, this chart. Two weeks after 9/11, I took the basic information in this chart down to the White House. I had asked for a meeting with Steve Hadley, who at that time was Deputy National Security Advisor. The chart was smaller. It was 2 feet by 3 feet, but the same information was in the center. Steve Hadley looked at the chart and said, Congressman, where did you get that chart from? I said, I got it from the military. I said, This is the process; this is the result of the process that I was pitching since 1999 to our government to implement, but the CIA kept saying we do not need it. Steve Hadley said, Congressman, I am going to take this chart, and I am going to show it to the man. The man that he meant, Mr. Speaker, was the President of the United States. I said, Mr. Hadley, you mean you have not seen something like this before from the CIA, this chart of al Qaeda worldwide and in the U.S.? And he said, No, Congressman. So I gave him the chart. Now, Mr. Speaker, what is interesting in this chart of al Qaeda, and you cannot see this from a distance, but right here in the center is the name of the leader of the New York cell. And that name is very familiar to the people of America. That name is Mohammed Atta, the leader of the 9/11 attack against us. So prior to 9/11, this military system that the CIA said we did not need and could not do actually gave us the information that identified Mohammed Atta's cell in New York. And with Mohammed Atta they identified two of the other terrorists with them. But I learned something new, Mr. Speaker, over the past several weeks and months. I have talked to some of the military intelligence officers who produced this document, who worked on this effort. And I found something out very startling, Mr. Speaker. Not only did our military identify the Mohammed Atta cell; our military made a recommendation in September of 2000 to bring the FBI in to take out that cell, the cell of Mohammed Atta. So now, Mr. Speaker, for the first time I can tell our colleagues that one of our agencies not only identified the New York cell of Mohammed Atta and two of the terrorists, but actually made a recommendation to bring the FBI in to take out that cell. And they made that recommendation because Madeleine Albright had declared that al Qaeda, an international terrorist organization, and the military units involved here felt they had jurisdiction to go to the FBI. Why, then, did they not proceed? That is a question that needs to be answered, Mr. Speaker. I have to ask, Mr. Speaker, with all the good work that the 9/11 Commission did, why is there nothing in their report about able danger? Why is there no mention of the work that able danger did against al Qaeda? Why is there no mention, Mr. Speaker, of a recommendation in September of 2000 to take out Mohammed Atta's cell which would have detained three of the terrorists who struck us?>>>
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I smell cover-up.
What did Clinton know and when did he know it ?? Happened on his watch, his appointees then covered it up at the Commission.
Could be the key to dead-heading Hilary before 08
A huge story********
This blog includes a Mohammed Atta timeline.
Cover-up, indeed. Clinton and Hillary involved in a cover-up. MSM is ignoring these shocking events.
Power to the bloggers.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Shocking 9/11 Revelations
by BooMan
Tue Aug 9th, 2005 at 11:51:48 AM EDT
According to today's New York Times, a top secret unit of military intelligence identified four of the 9/11 hijackers as Al-Qaeda members in the summer of 2000.
More than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, a small, highly classified military intelligence unit identified Mohammed Atta and three other future hijackers as likely members of a cell of Al Qaeda operating in the United States, according to a former defense intelligence official and a Republican member of Congress.
In the summer of 2000, the military team, known as Able Danger, prepared a chart that included visa photographs of the four men and recommended to the military's Special Operations Command that the information be shared with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the congressman, Representative Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania, and the former intelligence official said Monday.
This is a huge story. It's mind-boggling, and I can't even begin to describe the implications in a diary. Before I even try, I am going to skip ahead in the article and then give you a segment of my Mohammed Atta timeline, for your consideration. Pay special attention to the word 'Brooklyn'.>>>
More at:
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2005/8/9/807/84925
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post a link or not....
However, if you go to
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=atta
you will find what is essentially the must-see repository of Attagate information.
This story is so huge on so many levels that I am, for once, at a loss for words. Needless to say, the mainstream media is conspicuously absent... I wonder why.
Posted by: Mike at August 12, 2005 12:37 PMClinton Lawyers: Mohamed Atta Off-Limits
newsmax.com ^ | Friday, Aug. 12, 2005 11:14 a.m. EDT
Posted on 08/12/2005 10:43:36 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Friday, Aug. 12, 2005 11:14 a.m. EDT Clinton Lawyers: Mohamed Atta Off-Limits
A year before the 9/11 attacks, Clinton administration lawyers told a group of military intelligence officers that information they had developed on 9/11 ringleader Mohamed Atta could not be shared with the FBI, saying of Atta himself: "You can't even touch him - it doesn't matter what information you have."
Rep. Curt Weldon, who helped develop the military intelligence group code-named "Able Danger," delivered the bombshell revelation in an interview Thursday with WABC Radio host Sean Hannity.
WELDON: In September of 2000 we tried on three occasions to take the information we had developed and pass it along to the FBI so they could follow up and take action against this [al-Qaida] cell and perhaps bring in Atta and question him and do whatever else was necessary. Three times we were turned down by lawyers in the administration.
HANNITY: We're talking about lawyers in the Clinton administration?
WELDON: Yes, it was the Clinton administration. Lawyers said there were two reasons why you can't do that. And they even put stickies over the face of Mohamed Atta on this chart they had. They said: "He's here legally. He's either got a green card or he's got a visa. So you can't even touch him - it doesn't matter what information you have." [END OF EXCERPT]
Moments later, Weldon said he was determined to find out who it was who ultimately gave the order to protect the lead 9/11 hijacker.
WELDON: The American people need to have answers. They need to have answers about who made the decision to stop our military intelligence from sharing information with the FBI, and how high up the ladder that went.
Did it stop at DoD? Or was the Justice Department involved in that decision? Or was the White House involved in that decision? [END OF EXCERPT]
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Kinda makes you wonder what, exactly, Sandy Berger had down his pants.
Posted by: Brass at August 12, 2005 2:49 PMI don't want one tiny thing covered up about 9/11. I want the entire truth. Maybe Sandy Berger had the story about Atta meeting with Iraqi intelligence agents in his pants.
Posted by: Tom Penn at August 12, 2005 10:57 PMDon't think what clinton think.What he would do.It's all normal.Whatever happened is happens for good.
Jack
OOPS! Per the NRO on August 14, 2005, the Pod himself:
WE MAY OWE THEM A BIG APOLOGY [John Podhoretz]
A day or two ago, I posted a note of caution about the Able Danger scandal, and that note of caution has now turned into a full-fledged symphony -- and some of us on the Right who have been making a big stink about this may have been had.
The 9/11 Commission has put out a very detailed memo defending itself that basically says Rep. Curt Weldon and the unnamed Navy officers who have made a big stink about Able Danger are stretching it bigtime.
(snip, but read the whole thing)
That's about as strong a denial as there can be, and it sounds credible to me.
(snip)
I submit there is good reason to believe the Navy officer may have been extrapolating because he was so upset to discover that the "data mining" operation he found out about wasn't being properly shared with domestic law-enforcement agencies. And without more proof than a four-year-old memory that may have been faulty, the Commission was right to be skeptical about the value of this testimony.
As for Curt Weldon, remember that he's trying to sell a book. It's now up to him to put up or shut up. Can he or anyone else supply evidence stronger than the evidence presented to date about this that the Pentagon was in possession of Mohammed Atta's name a year before the attacks? I doubt he can or he would have already.
But don't get discouraged; you still have Oil for Food. Or better yet, spitting on the mothers of dead veterans appears to be in full season. The opportunities for desparate, pathetic wingnuts are nearly limitless, anything to distract from the manifold disasters which conservative leadership has wrought.
The "Atta" Islamist murderers are being taken down by conservative leadership; by the Iraqis themselves!!! Adios,sayonara,goodbye to Mohammed Salah Sultan; enjoy paradise, Mohammed.! More, please and faster.>>>>>>
Iraqis kill al-Qaeda lieutenant in Mosul
AAP ^
Posted on 08/14/2005 3:40:36 PM PDT by jmc1969
A lieutenant of al-Qaeda terror boss Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been killed by Iraqi security forces in Mosul, the US military said.
Mohammed Salah Sultan, also known as Abu Zubair, was killed on Friday, the US statement said.
The statement said Abu Zubair was a "known member of al-Qaeda in Iraq" and an al-Zarqawi lieutenant who was sought for his role in a July suicide bombing of a police station in Mosul in which five Iraqi police were killed.
Abu Zubair was wearing a suicide pack with explosives when he was killed, the US statement said.
"He was also suspected of resourcing and facilitating suicide bomber attacks against coalition, Iraqi security forces and Iraqi citizens throughout the country," the statement said.
The statement said that last week, US and Iraqi forces captured three bomb makers and six foreign fighters as well as finding and clearing 101 improvised explosive devices in the Mosul area.
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