Posted on 08/18/2005 6:04:42 AM PDT by OESY
An Army intelligence officer yesterday publicly charged that the unit in which he worked had indeed identified two al Qaeda cells — and 9/11 ringleader Mohamed Atta more than a year before the terrorist attacks.
Properly handled, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer says, that information might have prevented the terror attacks.
And Shaffer insists that his unit, code-named Able Danger, provided that information to the 9/11 commission headed by former Gov. Tom Kean — which failed to include it in its final report.
Moreover, the officer's revelations come as newly declassified documents show that State Department analysts warned the Clinton administration as early as 1996 that Osama bin Laden's move to Afghanistan "could prove... dangerous to U.S. interests."
Those assessments also are missing from the 9/11 report — portrayed as the definitive history of the worst terrorist attack on America.
Kean and other commission staff in recent days finally have admitted, after earlier denials, that they were told of the Able Danger information — but continue to dismiss it as "historically insignificant."...
Kean & Co. are going to have to do better than that.
Because, it's becoming clear that the commission's failure to delve into Able Danger has less to do with the unit's credibility than it does with protecting commission member Jamie Gorelick.
Gorelick, then a deputy attorney general under Clinton, put into place the "wall of separation" that precluded sharing intelligence on terrorists with law-enforcement agencies.
Still, the problem transcends Gorelick.
Shaffer disclosed that his unit tried three times in 2000 to meet with agents of the FBI's Washington field office— only to have the meetings canceled each time at the direction of military lawyers concerned that Able Danger might have violated the privacy of terrorists legally present in the U.S....
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These are dangerous times. Whenever the left is about to be nailed something big happens to divert attention.
Yes they want to protect Gorelick, but she is the cut-out, the cat's paw, for Clinton. Protecting Clinton is the Commission's ultimate purpose.
Politics again..here is a commission created to help America....and it was all politics...when can we get some statesmen back..instead of politicians...it saddens me to think the Unites States takes a back seat to these people...but then again they do not know a small statement that starts with " I pledge alligence to the flag of the United States of America"
AGAINI ASK WILLSOME JOURNALIST PLEASE ASK WHY THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION IMPLEMENTED THIS WALL IN THE FIRST PLACE ?
THIS MY FRIENDS IS WHERE THE REAL SCANDAL IS ,CHINESE MONEY POURING INTO THE DEMOCRAT COFFERS FOR OUR NUCLEAR AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE DOZEN CIA AND FBI INVESTIGATIONS INTO THIS ,THERFORE ERECT THAT WALL, BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good point.
I always come back to same question: If Iraq has nothing to do with Al Qaeda, why does it upset Al Qaeda so much that the US is trying to bring human rights and democracy to Iraq? ....Because Iraq has everything to do with this war of ideas!
Look, if after 9/11, the US attacked Columbia, then that truly would have been a distraction from the war on terror. Al Qaeda and the Dems would have been happy if Bush did that.....guaranteed!
Any word from the Jersey Girls on these revalations?
AGAIN WILL SOME JOURNALIST PLEASE ASK WHY THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION IMPLEMENTED THIS WALL IN THE FIRST PLACE ?
THIS MY FRIENDS IS WHERE THE REAL SCANDAL IS ,CHINESE MONEY POURING INTO THE DEMOCRAT COFFERS FOR OUR NUCLEAR AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE DOZEN CIA AND FBI INVESTIGATIONS INTO THIS ,THERFORE ERECT THAT WALL, BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And cash still works. Although I wish we'd get back to allowing $500's and and thousands in bill or coin.
Hilary Clinton, you mean?
Only hope is that that since they didn't develop it themselves, they've left out or skipped some important and necessary social ordering thereby making the "gift" poison to them long term.
No, President Clinton, whose reputation affects the Democrats generally and Mrs. Clinton in particular.
1.) It doesn't blame Bush
2.) The blame points to GORElick... and ultimately, Clinton
After 1 & 2 happen, the 'Jersey Girls' will demand silence from all... in respect for the dead.
From everything I have read about this issue it seems there were a few things being covered up by the Comission. First off, Gorelick's appointment to the Comission is a sure sign of the cover up. Let her cover up the mess she created at the request of her puppet masters the Clintons (Bill and Hillary, as she was appointed by Hillary). It also seems they wanted to cover up the methods by which Able Danger was able to obtain it's information. According to another thread, they used the same techniques that were implemented in 2003, but the program came to a halt due to an uproar from media and critics.
It seems to me all Comission members, Demorcat and Republican need to be held accountable for these omissions and explain honestly and openly to the American people why they did so.
Then we can get on with the business of reopening the FBI and CIA cases dealing with the Chinese Government's illegal contributions to the DNC in exchange for top secret nuclear technology. Then we can throw Bill and Hill in the can...but when Gorelick ends up dead, will the media turn their heads away once again?
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