[philo]

This Is the original story that the major media networks have picked up

[HitmanLV]

This guy was just on Savage Nation - awesome!

[mewzilla]

I thought Weldon has said that he wasn't sure if the lawyers involved were DOD lawyers, or lawyers from some other branch of the gov't?

[Mo1]

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[GEC]

bump

[trubluolyguy]

Did DoD Lawyers Miss a Chance to Nail Atta?"

No. Clintons' justice dept. would not allow it. They were too busy shipping innocent children to island prisons and just outright burning others to death to worry about terrorists.

[JediForce]

Thanks for the posting...I am playing catch-up on this story...I heard Rush talk about it today but have not seen any news reports....has this made it to the lame-stream yet?

Looks like we are going to need a new 9/11 commission huh?

[Califelephant]

Another reason to hate lawyers.

[b4its2late]

September 2000..... Now who was President at that point?

[thoughtomator]

If David Koresh only had a green card, that regrettable incident need never have happened.

[SmithL]

Legacy

[soozla]

“Why did the 9/11 Commission not investigate this entire situation?” asked Weldon on June 27. “Why did the 9/11 Commission not ask the question about the military’s recommendation against the Mohammed Atta cell?”

Why did Sandy BERG-lar stuff documents down his boxers on his way out of the Nat'l Archives and why was Ms Jaime Gore-licker sitting ON the commission instead of IN FRONT OF it????? HHMMMMMM..........I think the answers to some of these questions will provide answers to the others!!!!

[operation clinton cleanup]

Forget Rove... bring on Reno! (and her puppet masters)

[plain talk]

I forget. Which admninistration was in charge leading up to the 2000 Presidential Election?

[syriacus]

Thanks for posting this interesting article.

[kittymyrib]

We should demand names of these bozos, who caused the attack on 9/11 to go forward. They are responsible for stonewalling and we need to know who they are and why they did it. It's way past time that someone pays for this horrible blunder.

[R W Reactionairy]

Savage barely touched on the key point. He kept repeating over and over that the DOD lawyers were treasonous. I hate to defend lawyers, but the lawyers were following the rules set forth by their superiors and Ms. Gorelick ... there are thousands of dangerous nut jobs in America and most of these dangerous nut jobs will never kill anyone leave alone thousands of people at a time.

Gorelick is a different matter. She has some serious explaining to do in terms of her willingness to serve on the 911 Commission when she was well aware that she had been instrumental in frustrating intelligence sharing that might have averted that mass murder. Her actions are obviously unethical and hopefully what she did was provably unlawful.

[Stew Padasso]

Well, it seems the FR has not even significantly picked this up. Look at the threads that are being bumped.

[StopGlobalWhining]

Why is Mrs. Gorelick still a member of the 9-11 committee and not a witness?

She is the one who wrote the infamous memo prohibiting the CIA from passing along information to the FBI. I would be very surprised if she wasn't leading the stone wall defense to prevent Able Danger information from being more widely disseminated.

Gorelick as a committee member is even a more blatant "in your face" insult to the American people than was Sandy Burger's lack of punishment for the violation of our national archives.

[Marine Inspector]

lawyers working for Special Ops decided that anyone holding a green card had to be granted essentially the same legal protections as any U.S. citizen.

Atta did not have a green card and green card holders don not have the same legal protections as U.S. Citizens. The lawyers for Special Ops should be disbarred!

[TomasUSMC]

In September 2000, one year before the Al Qaeda attacks of 9/11, a U.S. Army military intelligence program, known as “Able Danger,” identified a terrorist cell based in Brooklyn, NY, one of whose members was 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta, and recommended to their military superiors that the FBI be called in to “take out that cell,” according to Rep. Curt Weldon, a longtime Republican congressman from Pennsylvania who is currently vice chairman of both the House Homeland Security and House Armed Services Committees.


The recommendation to bring down that New York City cell -- in which two other Al Qaeda terrorists were also active -- was not pursued during the weeks leading up to the 2000 presidential election, said Weldon. That’s because Mohammed Atta possessed a “green card” at the time and Defense Department lawyers did not want to recommend that the FBI go after someone holding a green card, Weldon told his House colleagues last June 27 during a little-noticed speech, known as a “special order,” which he delivered on the House floor.

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Who were the folks in the White House then?

THE DUMBORATS.

Funny that this didn't hightlight the 911 commission. I guess this guy didn't have a book coming out.