Former commission chairman Thomas Kean and vice chairman Lee Hamilton said last week that the military official who made the claim had no documentation to back it up.
Those documents are long gone.
Posted on 08/16/2005 7:58:05 PM PDT by george76
Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer said the small intelligence unit, called "Able Danger," had identified Atta and three of the other future Sept. 11 hijackers as al-Qaida members by mid-2000. He said military lawyers stopped the unit from sharing the information with the FBI.
The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks left the Able Danger claims out of its official report.
In an interview with Fox News Channel and The New York Times, Shaffer said the panel was not given all the information his team had gathered.
"I'm told confidently by the person who did move the material over that the 9/11 commission received two briefcase-size containers of documents," Shaffer said in the interview, part of which was aired by Fox News Tuesday night. "I can tell you for a fact that would not be ... one-20th of the information that Able Danger consisted of during the time we spent."
Former commission chairman Thomas Kean and vice chairman Lee Hamilton said last week that the military official who made the claim had no documentation to back it up.
Shaffer rejected that remark. "Leaving a project targeting al-Qaida as a global threat a year before we were attacked by al-Qaida is equivalent to having an investigation of Pearl Harbor and leaving somehow out the Japanese," he said.
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BUMP!!!!
I think the San Francisco Chronicle thinks this makes Bush look bad
Bttt....
I guess we officially have ourselves a story thanks to Fox.
They probably think he took office Jan 2000.
"...and we are out of the gates!"
Its an AP story. Newspapers subscribe to the service and breaking AP stories are posted to their website. The're no editorial decision-making involved.
yup , The Slimes and The Carbuncle must have an angle ,... this should be quite good!!
Its an AP story. Newspapers subscribe to the service and breaking AP stories are posted to their website. The're no editorial decision-making involved.
"having an investigation of Pearl Harbor and leaving somehow out the Japanese"
9 of 10 New Yorkers believe that Moussollini bombed Pearl Harbor.
when it all comes out. that will be a tough sell.only the completely lost will but it. 20% at best.
Someone made the point they gave the information to FOX and the NYT's. This put each on the spot with the exact same information if one didn't cover it, the other might. Forcing both to cover the story with detail lest the other trump them. If The NYT's covers it, then the other MSM organizations and newswie services usually fall into line and do so at first. Only notable exception recently was the NYT's story that proved Rove's innocence that the rest ignored.
good point ! and speaking of rove.
Former commission chairman Thomas Kean and vice chairman Lee Hamilton said last week that the military official who made the claim had no documentation to back it up.
Those documents are long gone.
9 of 10 Democrats (and 10 of 10 Michael Moore-ons) believe that Donald Rumsfeld bombed Pearl Harbor to get us into war.... it fits with what they think they 'know'..... (though Rumsfeld was only around 9 yrs. old at the time).
Wow!
Michael Savage got the huge scoop tonight with an extended interview
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