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9/11 REVISIONISM, REVISITED
THE MYSTERY OF "ABLE DANGER"
By: Justin Raimondo
http://etherzone.com/2005/raim081205.shtml
In January of this year, Rep. Curt Weldon made a
speech to the House of Representatives – a speech which no
one took notice of, and which hardly anyone heard, except maybe
inveterate C-SPAN watchers – in which he made a number of
extraordinary assertions:
"Mr. Speaker, I rise because information has come
to my attention over the past several months that is very
disturbing. I have learned that, in fact, one of our Federal
agencies had, in fact, identified the major New York cell of
Mohamed Atta prior to 9/11; and I have learned, Mr. Speaker, that
in September of 2000, that Federal agency actually was prepared to
bring the FBI in and prepared to work with the FBI to take down the
cell that Mohamed Atta was involved in in New York City, along with
two of the other terrorists.
"I have also learned, Mr. Speaker, that when that
recommendation was discussed within that Federal agency, the
lawyers in the administration at that time said, you cannot pursue
contact with the FBI against that cell. Mohamed Atta is in the U.S.
on a green card, and we are fearful of the fallout from the Waco
incident. So we did not allow that Federal agency to
proceed.
"Mr. Speaker, what this now means is that prior to
September 11, we had employees of the Federal Government in one of
our agencies who actually identified the Mohamed Atta cell and made
a specific recommendation to act on that cell, but were denied the
ability to go forward. Obviously, if we had taken out that cell,
9/11 would not have occurred and, certainly, taking out those three
principal players in that cell would have severely crippled, if not
totally stopped, the operation that killed 3,000 people in
America."
Something about this doesn't quite ring true: none
[.pdf] of the hijackers had a green card. Most came in on tourist
visas: some had made easily detectable false statements on their
visa applications, and might have been legally
deported.
And what does Waco have to do with anything? The
connection seems tenuous, at best. However, let us pass over that,
for the moment, and concentrate on Rep. Weldon's further remarks:
he avers that two weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks on
New York and Washington, his "friends" at the Army's Information
Dominance Center – "in cooperation with special ops" –
brought him a chart that had been created by a secret military unit
known as "Able Danger": using "data-mining" techniques, this top
secret military intelligence unit had identified Mohammed Atta and
three of the hijackers as being part of an al-Qaeda cell in the
U.S. This chart, with a visa photo of Mohammed Atta at its center,
was created a year before 9/11. Weldon says he took the chart to
Stephen Hadley, at the National Security Council, who said he had
never seen any such chart, and that he would bring it to "the man"
– i.e., the president.
Now it isn't all that surprising that neither
Hadley, nor the president, had any inkling of Operation "Able
Danger." What's truly startling, however, is that when Weldon
talked to those who made the chart, he discovered that not only had
they identified the New York cell of Mohammed Atta and two of the
other terrorists, but also that a recommendation had been made to
take out the cell – and it had been vetoed. By whom –
and why? As Weldon put it in his speech:
"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?"
A good question, one that was thoroughly ignored
for months, until something called the "Government Security News"
picked up the story, and this was followed by a piece in the New
York Times by Douglas Jehl, and one this [Thursday] morning, that
basically confirmed the outlines of Weldon's
story.
A "former defense intelligence official" involved
in "Able Danger" was cited to buttress Weldon's assertion, and he
claims in the first Times story that, yes, he brought the chart
produced by his team to Special Operations Command (SOC) because
"We knew these were bad guys, and we wanted to do something about
them." At SOC headquarters, in Tampa, Florida, however, they draw a
complete blank:
"Col. Samuel Taylor, a spokesman for the
military's Special Operations Command, said no one at the command
now had any knowledge of the Able Danger program, its mission or
its findings. If the program existed, Colonel Taylor said, it was
probably a highly classified "special access program" on which only
a few military personnel would have been briefed."
According to Al Felzenberg, former spokesman for
the Sept. 11 commission, investigators on his staff had been told
about the "Able Danger" program, but, he claimed, there was no
mention of Atta, which is why the 9/11 Commission report never
mentions the subject, even obliquely. However, the former defense
intelligence official cited in Jehl's first story begs to differ.
He says that Philip Zelikow, executive director of the 9/11
Commission, and three other members of the Commission staff, had
been briefed, and that
"He had explicitly mentioned Mr. Atta as a member
of a Qaeda cell in the United States. He said the staff encouraged
him to call the commission when he returned to Washington at the
end of the year. When he did so, the ex-official said, the calls
were not returned."
Jehl reported on Wednesday that, according to
Felzenberg, who had talked to former staff members of the
Commission,
"They all say that they were not told anything
about a Brooklyn cell. They were told about the Pentagon operation.
They were not told about the Brooklyn cell. They said that if the
briefers had mentioned anything that startling, it would have
gotten their attention."
The next day, however, the former Commission
staffers were singing a different tune. In their follow-up story,
Jehl and Philip Shenon report the Commission staff was indeed
briefed in a meeting held on July 12, 2004, at which Atta's name
figured prominently, and that this has been acknowledged by the
same officials who were denying everything 24 hours earlier. The
briefing had been discounted, these officials now claim, because
the information offered didn't "mesh" with what they thought they
already knew, and, besides, the 9/11 Commission report was all
ready to go to the printer. The addition of a piece of information
that would have substantially altered the content was apparently
not considered important enough to tell the printer to
wait.
The main thrust of the 9/11 Commission's findings
was that there was a "lack of actionable intelligence": the
terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center
represented a gigantic "intelligence failure," which blocked
attempts to take out Bin Laden in Afghanistan. But the point is
that what was needed was actionable intelligence in America, not
Afghanistan. In the aftermath, many lamented the fact that, if only
some version of the PATRIOT Act had been in place prior to 9/11,
the attacks might have been prevented. As I wrote when the
Commission first began its work, this
"Sounds superficially plausible, except when one
considers that there was plenty of actionable intelligence about
the 9/11 plotters: there were warnings galore, as we are beginning
to discover, not only from foreign intelligence agencies but from
our own agents and analysts.
"Yes, but these warnings were 'nonspecific':
that's the standard official excuse. Except it isn't true: the
ringleader of the 9/11 plot, Mohammed Atta, was under surveillance
by authorities the year before the attacks, in Hamburg, Germany.
Atta and his associates were well-known to law enforcement and
intelligence agencies, U.S. and foreign, long before the 9/11
terror attacks.
"What did they know and when did they know it?
That is a key question for the 9/11 Commission to ask, and
answer."
It is interesting to note that the Commission
staffer who received – and discounted – the "Able
Danger" information, Dietrich L. Snell, is the prosecutor who
convicted Abdul Hakim Murad in the "Bojinka" terrorist conspiracy
case, a 1995 plot to crash airplanes into several U.S. landmark
buildings, including the Pentagon and the World Trade Center
– a scheme that later morphed into the 9/11 conspiracy. Murad
offered to cooperate with investigators in return for a sentence
reduction, but prosecutors, led by Snell, turned him down. Go here
for the whole story.
The list of "mistakes," glitches, and tales of
staggering incompetence that preceded the worst "intelligence
failure" since a certain wooden horse was brought behind the walls
of Troy, is getting rather suspiciously long. Here's
another:
"The National Security Agency intercepted two
messages on the eve of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon warning that something was going to happen
the next day, but the messages were not translated until Sept. 12,
senior U.S. intelligence officials said yesterday.
"The Arabic-language messages said, 'The match is
about to begin' and 'Tomorrow is zero hour.' They were discussed
Tuesday before the House-Senate intelligence committee during
closed-door questioning of Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, director of
the NSA, the agency responsible for intercepting and analyzing
electronic messages."
This Washington Post story, you'll recall –
and certainly Slate media columnist Jack Shafer will recall it
– was the occasion for a stern rebuke from the White House,
and especially from Vice President Dick Cheney, whose anger was
sufficient to spark an FBI investigation into who leaked the
truth.
As we approach the fourth anniversary of the 9/11
terrorist attacks, the official story of what happened that day,
and how it happened, is beginning to unravel is a spectacular
manner. The official version is that the nineteen conspirators,
acting alone and without the foreknowledge or even the suspicion of
any outside agency, pulled off a complex series of operations
involving at least four separate airplanes, all carried out within
minutes of each other, pirouetting in the sky in perfect
synchronicity before barreling down on their targets nearly
simultaneously. This fiery moment was the climax of years –
as many as five years – of plotting, preparations, and a
largely subterranean existence lived by the conspirators, until
they emerged, on that fateful day, like avenging angels of darkness
coming down from the sky.
However, the various anomalies that go unexplained
by this fanciful theory have begun to accumulate until the pressure
to revise what we know of the history of the 9/11 conspiracy has
become irresistible. The "Able Danger" revelations merely confirm
what we've been saying in this space for years: that revisionism in
this area of historical research is essential if we're going to
begin to understand 9/11, and all that followed from it. As Condi
Rice's appearance before the 9/11 Commission showed, the
administration knew a lot more than it ever told
anyone.
In December, 2001, Carl Cameron did a four-part
series on Fox News that detailed extensive Israeli spying in the
U.S., a report that proved prescient in light of recent
developments, and he started out his riveting account with a
bang:
"Since September 11, more than 60 Israelis have
been arrested or detained, either under the new patriot
anti-terrorism law, or for immigration violations. A handful of
active Israeli military were among those detained, according to
investigators, who say some of the detainees also failed polygraph
questions when asked about alleged surveillance activities against
and in the United States.
"There is no indication that the Israelis were
involved in the 9-11 attacks, but investigators suspect that they
Israelis may have gathered intelligence about the attacks in
advance, and not shared it. A highly placed investigator said there
are 'tie-ins.' But when asked for details, he flatly refused to
describe them, saying, 'evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is
classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been
gathered. It's classified information.'"
While the story was largely ignored in the U.S.,
Germany's Die Zeit followed it up, in 2002, with an account
entitled "Next Door to Mohammed Atta," in which the respected
German weekly detailed close surveillance of Atta and his crew in
southern Florida by Israeli intelligence in the months leading up
to 9/11.
In April, 2004, I wrote about another Die Zeit
piece by the same author, Oliver Schrom, entitled "Deadly
Mistakes," a fascinating chronology of the errors, bureaucratic
bungling, and seemingly deliberate obstructions that prevented U.S.
authorities from taking what they knew about the hijackers, putting
it together, and apprehending Atta and his gang before they could
pull off their deadly deed. From Schrom we learned that the fabled
Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) for August 6, 2001, whose title
– "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S" – Rice
famously blurted out at her appearance before the 9/11 Commission,
was originally much longer than the version finally declassified
and released by the White House. In the course of this account,
Schrom also revealed the following:
"Langley, August 23, 2001. The Israeli Mossad
intelligence agency handed its American counterpart a list of names
of terrorists who were staying in the US and were presumably
planning to launch an attack in the foreseeable future. According
to documents obtained by Die Zeit, Mossad agents in the US were in
all probability surveilling at least four of the 19 hijackers,
among them [Khalid ] al-Midhar. The CIA now does what it should
have done 18 months earlier. It informs the State Dept., the FBI
and the INS. The names al-Midhar and [Nawaf] al-Hazmi are promptly
put on an investigation list, as probable members of al-Qaeda.
Al-Midhar is expressly noted as a probable accomplice in the USS
Cole attack. The first acknowledgement arrives quickly. The INS
writes that according to its information, both men are currently in
the US.
"Now both men are pursued
vigorously…."
These individuals – Atta, Khalid al-Midhar,
Nawaf al-Hazmi, and Marwan al-Shehhi – are the very same
"Brooklyn cell" identified by the "Able Danger" data-miners. The
Mossad "observed" them for nearly half a year, and then, at the
very last moment, turned over their names to the Americans. Too
late, as it turns out: but is that really the end of the
story?
In both instances, you'll note, we have the same
sort of excuse – not quite airtight – for why we didn't
move to apprehend the 9/11 plotters. In the case of the "Able
Danger" operation, although the authorities had the legal means at
their disposal, they were supposedly restrained by the recent
memory of … Waco. This seems not at all credible: is there
really any comparison between the figures of David Koresh and Osama
bin Laden, either in terms of impact or importance? One was a
marginal messiah of a homegrown mini-cult, the other an
international terrorist leader of a well-financed and far-flung
military organization.
In the case of the Israelis' belated
intelligence-sharing, the rationale for inaction was supposedly due
to legal constraints that erected a "firewall" preventing the
sharing of intelligence procured by different agencies, notably the
FBI and the CIA. As critics of this excuse-making note, however,
law enforcement agencies failed to make proper use of the legal
tools available to them:
"On May 24, 2002, in response to an FOIA lawsuit
filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the FBI
released a confidential memorandum sent by a Justice Department
official to an FBI lawyer in April 2000. The memo voiced concern
about mistakes made by the FBI's International Terrorism Operations
Section, and in particular, by that Section's (UBL) Osama Bin Laden
Unit: 'You have a pattern of occurrences indicating an inability on
the part of the FBI to manage its FISAs [foreign intelligence
surveillance operations].' One well-publicized episode revealed
that an FBI agent had prevented Minneapolis agents from obtaining a
warrant to search Zacarias Moussaoui's computer just a month before
9/11. This, apparently, was not an isolated incident.
…
"We now know that two of the 9/11 highjackers were
on FBI watch lists of suspected terrorists, yet they were able to
enter the country and remain undetected. In March 2002 the media
reported that the INS had wrongly issued visa waivers for four
Pakistanis who arrived in the US on a Russian merchant ship and
quickly disappeared."
We're supposed to believe that, if only we'd
passed the PATRIOT Act before 9/11, and subjected ourselves to a
regime of total surveillance, giving up such remnants of our civil
liberties as still existed, we might have escaped the wiles of Bin
Laden and his fellow Islamist supermen, who single-handedly pulled
off a spectacular terrorist act that changed the course of history.
Now, according to this all-too-familiar refrain, we'll just have to
get used to having our email read, our phones tapped, and our every
movement kept under close surveillance by our beneficent and
all-knowing government. The only alternative is living at the mercy
of terrorists.
As we are beginning to learn, however, that is
lie, and a rather self-serving one to boot. It wasn't the lack of
information, or an inability to detect the death cultists in our
midst, that prevented us from stopping the plot dead in its tracks.
Rather, it was a persistent obstructionism coming from some
quarters. As Coleen Rowley, the FBI agent who blew the whistle on
the efforts of the FBI's Washington office to quash the
investigation into al-Qaeda, put it:
"I know I shouldn't be flippant about this, but
jokes were actually made that the key FBIHQ personnel had to be
spies or moles, like Robert Hansen, who were actually working for
Osama Bin Laden to have so undercut Minneapolis'
effort."
As the number of unfortunate "coincidences" and
"mistakes" begins to pile up, Rowley's quip is no longer a joke. Is
it possible that Bin Laden had allies, enablers, some of them
inside the U.S. government? In a September 13, 2001 New York Times
column that purported to give an exclusive window on what went on
inside the presidential bunker as the Twin Towers burned, William
Safire wrote:
"A threatening message received by the Secret
Service was relayed to the agents with the president that "Air
Force One is next." According to the high official, American code
words were used showing a knowledge of procedures that made the
threat credible.
"(I have a second, on-the-record source about
that: Karl Rove, the president's senior adviser, tells me: "When
the president said `I don't want some tinhorn terrorists keeping me
out of Washington,' the Secret Service informed him that the threat
contained language that was evidence that the terrorists had
knowledge of his procedures and whereabouts. In light of the
specific and credible threat, it was decided to get airborne with a
fighter escort.")
The terrorists could have had knowledge of top
secret U.S. security procedures only if they had moles –
spies – inside the government. How else would Bin Laden's
boys get direct access to our code words?
No one doubts that the nineteen highjackers, and
the al-Qaeda organization, financed, organized, and carried out the
9/11 terrorist attacks. But there is growing doubt that they did it
without at least the passive collaboration of a silent partner, one
who wielded considerable influence on our government – and
had ready access to its secrets. In retrospect, it appears as if
Atta and his fellow mass murderers had a guardian angel – or
rather, a guardian devil – watching over them. At every turn,
just when it seemed they would be apprehended, fate – or
whomever – intervened, obstructing the normal means of
interception and keeping the conspiracy on track. It's almost as if
they traveled in a security bubble, protected by – what? By
whom?
I can hear the skeptics now: It's a "conspiracy
theory"! Yikes! But what explanation for how and why 9/11 happened
isn't a "conspiracy theory," after all? Atta & Co. certainly
didn't advertise their plans. The question is, will we accept the
Official Conspiracy Theory, or an alternative one that comports
with all the known facts?
[ Edited Mon Aug 29 2005, 12:58AM
]
Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax
or Truth?
ewing2001, Mon Aug 29 2005,
02:17PM
PerpetualYnquisitive,
thx for this very interesting "Trailblazer"-Update
:)
Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax
or Truth?
PerpetualYnquisitive, Thu Sep 01 2005,
08:21AM
I found a link to a video where Curt Weldon is
talking about the army intelligence team knowing about 5 Al-Qaeda
cells, it even shows a chart of the cells connections, the
streaming video is 1:22 (1 hour, 22 minutes) long, but I can't get
it to play past the 35 minute point.
Anyone else wanna give it a try?
Breaking the Stovepipes: Improving Intelligence
Sharing for Homeland Security
May 23 (2002)
Featuring:
Rep. Curt Weldon (R – PA) United States
House of Representatives
http://www.heritage.org/Press/Events/2002archive.cfm
Direct link:
http://multimedia.heritage.org/content/lect020523a.ram
Edit:
I finally got to see the whole video, it's more of
a sales pitch for John (IranContra) Poindexter's 'Total Information
Awareness' System, than anything else.
[ Edited Sat Sep 03 2005, 08:10PM
]
Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax
or Truth?
PerpetualYnquisitive, Fri Sep 02 2005,
08:49AM
No.060-05 September 1, 2005
DoD Background Briefing on Able
Danger
There will be an Able Danger background briefing
at 2 p.m. EDT in the OSD Executive Conference Center , Pentagon
2C554, Room #7.
Journalists without a Pentagon building pass will
be picked up at the North Parking Entrance only. Plan to arrive no
later than 1:30 p.m.; have proof of affiliation and two forms of
photo identification. Please call (703) 697-5131 for escort into
the building.
http://www.defenselink.mil/advisories/2005/pa20050901-1782.html
Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax
or Truth?
ewing2001, Fri Sep 02 2005,
02:38PM
...new developments in the spin of the official
"plotline" for the alleged suspects:
Terrorist Known Before 9/11, More
Say
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/02/politics/02intel.html
By THOM SHANKER
Published: September 2, 2005
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 - A Defense Department inquiry
has found three more people who recall seeing an intelligence
briefing slide that identified the ringleader of the Sept. 11
attacks a year before the hijackings and terrorist strikes,
Pentagon and military officials said Thursday.
Skip to next paragraph
Threats and Responses
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But the officials said investigators who reviewed
thousands of documents and electronic files from a secret
counterterrorism planning unit had not found the chart itself, or
any evidence the chart ever existed.
The officials acknowledged that documents and
electronic files created by the unit, known as Able Danger, were
destroyed under standing orders that limit the military's use of
intelligence gathered about people in the United
States.
At a Pentagon briefing on Thursday, four
intelligence or military officials said investigators had
interviewed 80 people who served directly with Able Danger, a team
organized to write a counterterrorism campaign plan, or were
closely associated with it.
Of those 80, 5 in all now say they saw the chart,
including Capt. Scott J. Phillpott of the Navy and Lt. Col. Anthony
Shaffer of the Army, whose recent comments first brought attention
to Able Danger..."
Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax
or Truth?
PerpetualYnquisitive, Thu Sep 08 2005,
12:44AM
Just finished reading "Seeds of Fire" again, more
than 90% of the book is actually about the student uprising in
China in 1989 and subsequent massacre in Tianamen Square. The 9/11
related material is very sparse and basically says that China was
behind the financing of Usama bin Oswald and is working with the
Israeli Mossad to overthrow America as a world
superpower.
I think Mr. Thomas, like Mr. Ruppert has watched
too many Bond movies and some err, 'gadget envy.'
Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax
or Truth?
ewing2001, Thu Sep 08 2005,
02:36AM
...not sure, if posted here
already:
Monday, Aug. 29, 2005 1:22 a.m.
EDT
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/8/29/12430.shtml
Missing Able Danger 'Atta' Chart in 2002
Video
"...A copy of the Able Danger chart that
identified lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta as a terrorist operating
inside the U.S. a year before the 9/11 attacks is clearly visible
in a video of a 2002 speech by delivered by Rep. Curt Weldon to the
Heritage Foundation.
The Pentagon, the 9/11 Commission and the Senate
Intelligence Committee are currently seeking evidence that the
bombshell chart, featuring a photo Atta, ever existed - as claimed
by three members of the Able Danger team, along with Rep. Weldon.
But so far, no physical evidence of the controversial document has
surfaced..."
Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax
or Truth?
PerpetualYnquisitive, Thu Sep 08 2005,
03:06AM
The link at the bottom of the NewsMax article is
for the same video that is linked in the post above,
http://www.heritage.org/Press/Events/2002archive.cfm
I have the entire video on my hd and I for one
can't see Atta on that chart, it is too small and the 'faces' look
more like large dots.
Weldon never refers specifically to the name Atta
during the entire presentation, nor is the name "Able Danger" used.
He shows the chart itself at 33:33.
He keeps repeating the phrase "inept response",
following the official line of "intelligence failure", clearly this
is a distraction and serves little value.
He also attacks Cynthia McKinney during the Q
& A session and ridicules the idea of Israeli involvement/prior
knowledge.
[ Edited Thu Sep 08 2005, 03:09AM
]
Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax
or Truth?
ewing2001, Thu Sep 08 2005,
03:35AM
okay, thx for the info.
We still have to be carefully distinguish between
deliberate misinformations via "plotline", threataganda and actual
surveillance projects to keep their patsie story
straight...
Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax
or Truth?
PerpetualYnquisitive, Sat Sep 10 2005,
12:38AM
Weldon Doubts DoD On Able Danger
by Shaun Waterman
UPI Homeland and National Security
Editor
Washington (UPI) Sep 08, 2005
The congressman who first made public claims that
a secret Pentagon data mining project linked the Sept. 11 attacks
ringleader to al-Qaida more than a year before the attacks took
place says he does not believe the military's account of how the
results of the project's work came to be
destroyed.
"I seriously have my doubts that it was routine,"
Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Penn., told United Press
International.
Last week, Pentagon officials told a hastily
arranged briefing for reporters that much data generated by the
project - code-named Able Danger - was destroyed in accordance with
standard operating procedure for handling material that might
contain the names of Americans.
Weldon said he had asked the Pentagon for the
certificates of destruction that military officials must complete
when classified data is destroyed.
He said that there had been "a second elimination
of data in 2003," in addition to the destruction acknowledged last
week.
Weldon said that a hearing next week before the
Senate Judiciary Committee would hear testimony from the individual
who destroyed the data.
"For some reason, the bureaucracy in the Pentagon
- I mean the civilian bureaucracy - didn't want this to get out,"
he said.
Full article:
http://tinyurl.com/adyxe
Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax
or Truth?
freedomfiles, Wed Sep 14 2005,
02:31AM
DoD briefing on Able Danger program
:
U.S. Department of Defense
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Public Affairs)
News Transcript
Thursday, September 1, 2005
Special Defense Department
Briefing
Participating in this brief were: Mr. Bryan
Whitman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
(Media Operations)
Ms. Pat Downs, Senior Policy Analyst, Office of
the Undersecretary of Defense (Intelligence)
Mr. Thomas Gandy, Army G-2 Director of
Counterintelligence and HUMINT
Mr. Bill Huntington, Vice Deputy Director for
HUMINT, Defense Intelligence Agency
Cmdr. Christopher Chope, Center for Special
Operations, U.S. Special Operations Command
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2005/tr20050901-3844.html
[ Edited Wed Sep 14 2005, 02:33AM
]
Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax
or Truth?
PerpetualYnquisitive, Wed Sep 14 2005,
03:28AM
King, Weldon make last-minute
push
By Jonathan E. Kaplan
[excerpt]
The Steering Committee’s decision could
hinge on the lawmakers’ reputations from their work on
foreign-policy issues in which both lawmakers bucked conventional
wisdom and the establishment’s position.
But Weldon also has taken on the CIA and Pentagon.
He wrote Countdown to Terror: The Top-Secret Information that Could
Prevent the Next Terrorist Attack on America and How the CIA has
Ignored It, which was published this year and ridiculed in some
foreign-policy circles.
Weldon also has alleged that analysts working for
a Pentagon program called “Able Danger” had identified
Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers in 1999 but that Pentagon
lawyers did not share the information with the FBI. The Pentagon
has disputed the allegations.
Whatever the outcome in the contest for the
Homeland Security chairmanship, Weldon is scheduled to testify at a
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing next week in which he said a
witness will testify that he was ordered to destroy thousands of
pages of computer data relating to Atta and that the person will
state who gave him the order to destroy that
information.
[excerpt]
http://tinyurl.com/7v98f
Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax
or Truth?
PerpetualYnquisitive, Wed Sep 14 2005,
09:38PM
Sept. 11 Commission Rejects Atta
Claim
By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press
Writer
WASHINGTON - Former members of the Sept. 11
commission on Wednesday dismissed assertions that
a
Pentagon intelligence unit identified lead
hijacker Mohamed Atta as an member of al-Qaida long before the 2001
attacks.
The ex-commissioners also criticized the
government for not putting in place changes recommended last year
in homeland security and emergency response. They pointed most
notably to the failure to improve communication systems, which they
said might have saved lives after Hurricane
Katrina.
Rep. Curt Weldon (news, bio, voting record),
R-Pa., had accused the commission of ignoring intelligence about
Atta while it investigated the attacks. The commission's former
chairman, Thomas Kean, said there was no evidence anyone in the
government knew about Atta before Sept. 11, 2001.
Two military officers, Army Lt. Col. Anthony
Shaffer and Navy Capt. Scott Phillpott, claimed a classified
military intelligence unit, known as "Able Danger," identified Atta
before the attacks. Shaffer has said three other hijackers were
identified, too.
Kean said the recollections of the intelligence
officers cannot be verified by any document.
"Bluntly, it just didn't happen and that's the
conclusion of all 10 of us," said a former commissioner, ex-Sen.
Slade Gorton, R-Wash.
Pentagon officials said this month that they could
find no documents to back up the claims.
According to Weldon, members of "Able Danger"
identified Atta and three other hijackers in 1999 as potential
members of a terrorist cell in New York City. Weldon said Pentagon
lawyers rejected the unit's recommendation that the information be
turned over to the
FBI in 2000.
Weldon's spokesman, John Tomaszewski, said no
commissioners have met with anyone from Able Danger "yet they
choose to speak with some form of certainty without firsthand
knowledge."
Separately, the former commissioners criticized
Congress for not updating communications rules to help police,
fire, and rescue personnel in a crisis such as
Katrina.
"It is a scandal in our minds," Kean
said.
The commissioners also faulted state, local, and
federal authorities responding to Katrina for not having a clear
chain of command, leading to some of the same confusion that
plagued the Sept. 11 rescue effort.
http://tinyurl.com/7662h
Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax
or Truth?
ewing2001, Fri Sep 16 2005,
10:04PM
Updates from the plotline of "Able
Danger"
'9/11' Hijackers ID's Known Before
Attacks?
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=9_11&id=3448686
September 16th
"...There are claims this noon that government
officials knew the identities of some of the "9/11" hijackers and
the danger they posed two years before the
attacks.
Officials say the classified document titled "able
danger" identified Mohamed Atta and four other
hijackers.
Eyewitness News has learned there are also claims
by one congressman that following the attack of a Pentagon employee
was ordered to destroy the document. That employee is set to
testify next week before the senate judiciary
committee.
Members of the "9/11" commission have denounced
the man's claims. ..
The FAA 1998 warnings
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/nationworld/story/5176359p-4706311c.html
September 14th
"...American aviation officials were warned as
early as 1998 that al-Qaida could “seek to hijack a
commercial jet and slam it into a U.S. landmark,” according
to previously secret portions of a report prepared last year by the
Sept. 11 commission...
...The newly disclosed material ... adds
significant new details about the nature and specificity of federal
aviation warnings over the years...
...Some of the details were contained in
confidential bulletins circulated by the agency to airports and
airlines, and some were in its internal
reports..."
[ Edited Fri Sep 16 2005, 10:05PM
]
Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax
or Truth?
freedomfiles, Fri Sep 16 2005, 10:17PM
Weldon: Atta Papers Destroyed on Orders
DONNA DE LA CRUZ/Associatd Press | September 16 2005
A Pentagon employee was ordered to destroy documents that
identified Mohamed Atta as a terrorist two years before the 2001
attacks, a congressman said Thursday.
The employee is prepared to testify next week before the Senate
Judiciary Committee and was expected to identify the person who
ordered him to destroy the large volume of documents, said Rep.
Curt Weldon (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa.
Weldon declined to identify the employee, citing confidentiality
matters. Weldon described the documents as "2.5 terabytes" —
as much as one-fourth of all the printed materials in the Library
of Congress, he added.
A Senate Judiciary Committee aide said the witnesses for Wednesday
hearing had not been finalized and could not confirm Weldon's
comments.
Army Maj. Paul Swiergosz, a Pentagon spokesman, said officials have
been "fact-finding in earnest for quite some time."
"We've interviewed 80 people involved with Able Danger, combed
through hundreds of thousands of documents and millions of e-mails
and have still found no documentation of Mohamed Atta," Swiergosz
said.
He added that certain data had to be destroyed in accordance with
existing regulations regarding "intelligence data on U.S.
persons."
Weldon has said that Atta, the mastermind of the attacks of Sept.
11, 2001, and three other hijackers were identified in 1999 by a
classified military intelligence unit known as "Able Danger," which
determined they could be members of an al-Qaida cell.
On Wednesday, former members of the Sept. 11 commission dismissed
the "Able Danger" assertions. One commissioner, ex-Sen. Slade
Gorton, R-Wash., said, "Bluntly, it just didn't happen and that's
the conclusion of all 10 of us."
Weldon responded angrily to Gorton's assertions.
"It's absolutely unbelievable that a commission would say this
program just didn't exist," Weldon said Thursday.
Pentagon officials said this month they had found three more people
who recall an intelligence chart identifying Atta as a terrorist
prior to the Sept. 11 attacks.
Two military officers, Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and Navy Capt.
Scott Phillpott, have come forward to support Weldon's claims.
[ Edited Fri Sep 16 2005, 10:19PM
]
Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
PerpetualYnquisitive, Sat Sep 17 2005, 11:25PM
Pentagon Wants 'Able Danger' Hearings Closed
Friday, September 16, 2005
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is pressuring the Senate Judiciary
Committee to close to the public next week's hearings on a former
secret military intelligence unit called "Able Danger," two
congressional sources have confirmed to FOX News.
Witnesses from the Pentagon are expected to testify at that
hearing; that's why they want it classified. FOX News has learned
that committee Chairman Arlen Specter's office is vigorously
resisting the request.
Some former Able Danger analysts and Rep. Curt Weldon (search) say
the formerly clandestine intelligence unit identified Mohammed Atta
(search) and three other of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers one year
before the attacks that left over 3,000 people dead. They also
claim that their repeated requests to turn over the information to
the FBI were ignored.
Weldon said a former Army officer will testify next week that he
was also ordered to destroy data that included reference to
Atta.
"In the summer of 2000, he was ordered and, or, he would go to jail
if he didn't comply," the Pennsylvania Republican said. "He was
ordered to destroy 2.5 terabytes of data specific to Able Danger,
the Brooklyn [terror] cell and Mohammad Atta. He will name the
person who ordered him to destroy that material."
Other witnesses will include an FBI agent who will testify that she
set up three meetings in 2000 between the FBI's Washington field
office and the Able Danger, but each was cancelled at the last
minute, Weldon said.
The Pentagon has changed its position on this story, from
originally questioning the very existence of Able Danger (search)
to now confirming that the Defense Department has identified five
former members of the unit who all say they remember Atta's picture
or name, on a chart in 2000.
Full article: http://tinyurl.com/dp2zc
Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
PerpetualYnquisitive, Sat Sep 17 2005, 11:43PM
Press Conference of Rep Curt Weldon: 9/11 Conmission and Operation
"Able Danger"
9/11 Commission suppressed the evidence
September 17, 2005
US House of Representatives
WELDON: Good afternoon.
I'm Curt Weldon, and I'm here to provide a response to the 9/11
Commission in their statements this week about Able Danger and the
outrageous statement made by Slade Gorton that it just didn't
exist.
And it is absolutely outrageous, especially from a commission that
I supported, that spent $15 million with 80 staffers to give the
American people and the Congress a full and complete understanding
of what happened prior to 9/11.
They have maintained there is no information about Able Danger or
the data mining work. They couldn't find anything.
So I brought some charts for you. These are all original charts.
None of these charts were made after 9/11. These charts were all
made before 9/11.
Now, granted, they're not all about Able Danger. They're not all
about Mohammed Atta, nor Al Qaida.
They're about drug trafficking. They're about terrorist cells.
They're about crime in Russia. They're about crime in Serbia.
They're about the World Trade Center bombing in '93.
So this information is a compilation of work being done by the
Army's LIWA Center, as well as some of the work being done by Able
Danger on Mohammed Atta and Al Qaida.
It's absolutely unbelievable to me that a commission would come out
and say that this program just didn't exist.
The Pentagon has acknowledged now, publicly, that they have
identified five defense employees who either vividly remember
identifying Mohammed Atta prior to 9/11 or seeing his name linked
with a Brooklyn cell prior to 9/11.
We have Scott Philpott (ph), a Navy commanding officer, who's
commanded one of our naval warships, an Annapolis graduate, who has
come out publicly and risked his entire career to say what he'll
say next Wednesday under oath: that he specifically remembers
identifying Mohammed Atta in January and February of 2000,
specifically; that he would stake his career on it. And that he was
the leader of Able Danger.
We have Lieutenant Colonel Tony Shaffer -- who's outside in the
hallway, who I couldn't bring into the House Gallery because of
House rules, but who's available for you to talk to, outside -- who
will testify under oath on Wednesday before the Senate that as a
DIA liaison to Special Forces Command for Able Danger, he attempted
to present information to the FBI on three occasions in September
of 2000 about the Brooklyn cell and Mohammed Atta.
WELDON: We've identified the woman at the FBI who set those three
meetings up. She will testify under oath at the Senate hearing next
Wednesday that she actually organized three meetings. She knew the
topics of the meetings because there had been other discussions
that occurred prior to the attempt to set up those three
meetings.
And in each of the cases of those three meetings, they were
abruptly canceled by Pentagon lawyers hours before those meetings
were to take place.
I asked the Pentagon had they talked to that FBI person. They said,
"No."
And, by the way, the Pentagon did not conduct an investigation.
There were no subpoenas. There were no witnesses under oath. It was
an inquiry. There's a big difference between an inquiry and an
investigation, as my colleagues on the Armed Services Committee
brought up when we had a briefing last week with six or seven
members of the committee.
What will be the added dimension to the Senate investigation and
hearing that will take place on Wednesday is not just the five
people that the Pentagon has confirmed, identified and knew about
Mohammed Atta prior to 9/11, but we'll bring out the person who
actually did much of the data analysis. Actually, his name, I
think, has already been brought out in the public. That's J.D.
(ph).
But the person who's not been brought out in the public yet, this
individual who will testify that he was actually the one who
destroyed 2.5 terabytes of data about Able Danger that included the
Brooklyn cell and Mohammed Atta.
Now, I'm not a computer expert. I don't know what 2.5 terabytes of
data are. But, John, I read your story. You called the Library of
Congress.
And the Library of Congress, if we can believe this great reporter
down here who I trust fully, told him that it's basically
one-fourth of all the printed material that the Library of Congress
has in their collection. Now, that's a lot of material.
So what we will have is a person who will testify under oath, on
the record, that in the summer of 2000, he was ordered -- or he
would lose his job and/or go to jail if he didn't comply -- he was
ordered to destroy 2.5 terabytes of data specific to Able Danger,
the Brooklyn cell and Mohammed Atta.
He will name the person who ordered him to destroy that material.
And, furthermore, he will note that a commanding general from SOCOM
-- Russ, what was his name?
STAFF: (OFF-MIKE)
WELDON: General Lambert was incensed when he found out that
material that he was a customer for was destroyed without his
approval.
So here we have a case where General Lambert at SOCOM was not told
that an employee had been ordered to destroy all the material that
he was a customer for. And that material related to Able Danger, it
related to Al Qaida and it related to Mohammed Atta.
In addition, I urge you to go back and review, on the Heritage
Commission Web site, a speech that I gave on May 23rd of 2002. That
speech, which is one hour and 20 minutes long with questions, is
about stovepipes. In fact, you'll see a chart there that I referred
that I can't find.
WELDON: That chart refers to Able Danger.
Full article: http://tinyurl.com/a46fj
TERROR ALERT WKS. BEFORE COLE ATTACK
September 17, 2005 -- WASHINGTON — Members of a secret
Pentagon intelligence unit known as Able Danger warned top military
generals that it had uncovered information of increased al Qaeda
"activity" in Aden harbor less than three weeks before the attack
on the USS Cole, The Post has learned.
In the latest explosive revelation in the Able Danger saga, two
former members of the data-mining team are expected to testify to
the Senate Judiciary Committee next week that they uncovered
alarming terrorist activity and associations in Aden weeks before
the Oct. 12, 2000, suicide bombing of the U.S. warship that killed
17 sailors.
Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, the Defense Intelligence Agency's former
liaison to Able Danger, told The Post that Capt. Scott Phillpott,
Able Danger's leader, briefed Gen. Peter Schoomaker, former head of
Special Operations Command and now Army chief of staff, about the
findings on Yemen "two or three weeks" before the Cole attack.
"Yemen was elevated by Able Danger to be one of the top three hot
spots for al Qaeda in the entire world," Shaffer recalled.
Shaffer and two other officials familiar with Able Danger said
contractors uncovered al Qaeda activities in Yemen through a search
of Osama bin Laden's business ties.
The Pentagon had no immediate comment.
http://tinyurl.com/cdsv2
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Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
PerpetualYnquisitive, Tue Sep 20 2005, 06:45AM
Monday, September 19, 2005 - 03:29 PM
Posted by: khence
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 11th Advocates Statement
Regarding Senate Judiciary "Able Danger" Hearing
September 19, 2005
We were stunned to learn that the Pentagon is calling for the
Senate hearing regarding "Able Danger" scheduled for Wednesday,
September 21st, to be closed to the public.
Recall that Able Danger was the data mining operation run out of
the Defense Intelligence Agency that allegedly identified four of
the 9/11 hijackers one year prior to the attacks. There has been
much controversy surrounding these findings and their significance
cannot be overstated. This information, relating to Able Danger,
changes the entire 9/11 "story" and would therefore impact many of
the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations. After attempting to
seek the truth for four years, it would be a travesty to keep the
facts surrounding this operation from the public. The insistence on
secrecy by governmental agencies only makes their motives suspect
and ultimately serves to keep the American public at risk.
* * *
September 11th Advocates
Kristen Breitweiser
Patty Casazza
Monica Gabrielle
Mindy Kleinberg
Lorie Van Auken
P.S. When I called the 9/11 Commissioner's Deputy for
Communications, Al Felzenberg, for a response to the CitizensWatch
debate challenge to the Commissioners, he volunteered without
prompting, before I could ask him about the challenge that if asked
to appear to testify, 'they would.' Yes, I agree, let's get the
most compromised member of the Commission, Philip Zelikow, up 'on
the stand', before the Senate Judiciary Cmte and see him 'not
recall' if Lt. Col. Shaffer mentioned the Brooklyn Cell, Atta or
the other three hijackers that were identified by Able Danger. And
then let's hear Michael Hurley, a third unknown staffer, and the as
yet to be publicly identified White House Counsel who was present
at the October '03 Bagram meeting in Afghanistan to all repeat what
they apparently told Felzenberg for the Public Disource Project
press release on the subject which was essentially "they ALL didn't
recall!" Not very definitive -- very carefully worded, no?
I think better yet, given statements like that from Commissioner
Gorton insisting "It (Able Danger) just didn't happen" we better
get the three Commission staffers and the White House lawyer to
take lie detector tests. And of course do the same to the five
military intelligence personnel who have some forward to insist
that indeed Able Danger did happen and it did identify Atta and the
other hijackers a year before the attacks. Where the Commission
failed to resolve discrepencies in testimony (for example Richard
Clarke's account in his book Against All Enemies of Myers and
Rumsfeld being very much in the loop even as each of them insists
they weren't in the loop, and this UNDER OATH), the Congress and
especially now, Senators Arlen Spector and Patrick Leahy must
not.
Furthermore we must insist Congress dig deep on this one. The
stakes are huge given the broad sweeping agenda that emerged from
the Commission's work and cover-up. We must ask ourselves why the
Commission was and remains so committed to a timeline that didn't
put Atta in the U.S. until half way into 2001? What are they
hiding? What was Atta doing in Las Vegas? The Commission doesn't
know and said so. What was he doing on the indicted Republican-tied
lobbyist Jack Abramhof Casino cruises in Florida before 9/11 (this
according to an AP story)? The Commission failed to mention this
altogether. And what about the Newsweek story that said that Atta
had attended Maxwell Officer's School? Was that really a different
M. Atta as they claimed but never substantiated? Come on folks! We
are looking at the beginning of the dissembling of the lies
surrounding 9/11 and the emergence of a scandal of epic proportion,
especially if someone actually saved even a small piece of hard
documentation for the Able Danger data-mining project.
-Kyle F. Hence
http://tinyurl.com/7jnne
This is further proof for me that "Able Danger" is a red herring
supreme deluxe, with a cherry on top.
Maestro, Cue the Disinfo Dancers .
o1o o1o o1o
Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
ewing2001, Wed Sep 21 2005, 06:47PM
Hopsicker on Able Danger
(Admin: Please note, that Hopsicker's personal conclusion supports
the official plotline, where i respectfully disagree.
Also, every surveillance projects had nothing to do with the actual
military operation itself.
That's what we also try to establish with this thread, including
the possibility that Able Danger indeed did exist or is just a red
herring to distract from the military operation and reinforce the
official story)
http://www.madcowprod.com/09192005.html
September 20,2005-Venice, FL.
by Daniel Hopsicker
Mohamed Atta may have been under U.S. military surveillance until
just days before the 9.11 attack, long after the Tampa-based Able
Danger military intelligence operation currently under scrutiny was
disbanded, in early 2001.
On August 6, 2001, the same day Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi returned
to Venice after renting a car at Warrick's RentaCar in Pompano
Beach, FL, and picking up Siad Al-Jarrah at the airport in Miami,
the MadCowMorningNews has learned that a self-described former NAVY
SEAL named Joe Gesell applied for and was hired as the night driver
(they only need one) at Venice Yellow Cab.
Gesell squired Atta around Venice and Sarasota in his cab on a
number of occasions. What raises suspicions that he may have been
working for more than just tips is this: after starting his new job
on the day of Atta's return, Gesell quit a month later, just one
day after Atta left town for the last time.
If Gessell is shown to have taken part in unacknowledged U.S.
military surveillance of Atta continuing until just before the
attack, it would not be uncharacteristic...
[ Edited Wed Sep 21 2005, 06:52PM ]
Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
ewing2001, Wed Sep 21 2005, 10:54PM
Pentagon nixes 9/11 hearing testimony
9/21/2005, 3:41 p.m. PT
http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/washingtonstate/index.ssf?/base/politics-8/1127306941167771.xml&storylist=washington
By KIMBERLY HEFLING
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman
said Wednesday he would look into whether the Pentagon obstructed
his committee by refusing to allow testimony from five people who
had knowledge of a secret military unit named "Able Danger."
Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
freedomfiles, Thu Sep 22 2005, 01:39AM
Isn't this most likely the background of 'Able Danger' ?
Thesis :
Problem
The Pentagon (military intelligence) is restricted in spying on
domestic targets.
Reaction
When members of Able Danger made their presentation at command
headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base, Weldon said, the legal team
"put stickies on the faces of Mohammed Atta on the chart," to
reinforce that he was off-limits.
"They said, "You can't talk to Atta because he's here on a green
card,"...
A story is fabricated (Able Danger) which alleges that the lead
hijacker of the September 11th attacks was already identified by
the Pentagon, but that military intelligence analists witheld
information from the FBI, because they are not allowed to gather
intelligence on domestic targets (US Citizens and others residing
within the US legally).
Solution
New legislation is introduced, or existing legislation is amended
to allow/increase possibilities for the Pentagon (military
intelligence) to gather intelligence on domestic targets.
Possibly also measures to facilitate information sharing with the
FBI and other agencies.
[ Edited Thu Sep 22 2005, 02:16AM
]
Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
PerpetualYnquisitive, Thu Sep 22 2005, 02:56PM
Specter Wants Answers About 'Able Danger'
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Chairman Arlen Specter (search) said Wednesday he wants answers
from the Defense Department about Able Danger, a secret military
unit that is said to have identified four of the Sept. 11 hijackers
more than a year before the terrorist attacks.
Pentagon officials blocked five key witnesses from testifying in
the Able Danger (search) hearings on Capitol Hill Wednesday, citing
security concerns.
"I think the Department of Defense owes the American people an
explanation about what went on here," Specter said. "The American
people are entitled to some answers."
The testimony was expected to offer information on the secret
military unit and its identification of Mohamed Atta (search)
— the lead hijacker during the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Full article:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,169991,00.html
:p
Get ready for the magic hijacker theory©.
Well you see it's like this, the persons that were reported to be
hijackers that are still alive, well they were being impersonated
by somebody else. Uhm, yeah, Atta was really 8 or 9 hijackers. He
was in possession of advanced, ah, ah, technology.
That's right, he had a prototype All-CIA-Duh super-weapon. It was a
quantum, spectral transmogrifier. Yeah, uhm, that's what it was. It
even had special teleportation functions, which uhm, ah, allowed
Atta to actually pilot all 4 planes, that is why the hijackings
were sequential, in a row, you know.
From files found on a laptop found in uhm, that place, uhm,
Talibanistan, we know the device had high-end communications built
into it, the diagram clearly shows a piece of string connecting TWO
DIXIE cups and even had an automatic FALAFEL warmer.
grin)
Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
PerpetualYnquisitive, Sat Sep 24 2005, 08:50AM
Pentagon, Senate committee bicker over 9/11 probe
Fri Sep 23, 9:06 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The
Pentagon and the Senate Judiciary Committee squabbled publicly on
Friday about whether lawmakers could question five key witnesses in
public about their claims the U.S. military identified four
September 11 hijackers long before the 20001 attacks.
The Defense Department came under fire from Republican and
Democratic lawmakers this week when it prohibited the same
witnesses, including members of a secret military intelligence team
code-named Able Danger, from appearing before the judiciary panel
at a public hearing on Wednesday.
The panel's chairman, Republican Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio,
voting record) of Pennsylvania, said at Wednesday's hearing the
Pentagon could be guilty of obstructing congressional proceedings.
Other lawmakers accused the Defense Department of orchestrating a
cover-up.
On Friday, the Senate committee announced the Pentagon had reversed
its position and would allow the five witnesses to testify at a new
public hearing scheduled for October 5.
The Pentagon denied anything had changed, despite behind-the-scenes
negotiations to reach a solution agreeable to both sides.
Full article: http://tinyurl.com/aa8ec
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Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
ewing2001, Sat Sep 24 2005, 03:40PM
Claim Atta Was Named Debated
Security Chief Denies Getting Chart Identifying Hijacker
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