Posted on 08/23/2005 8:51:26 AM PDT by Niks
I don't believe these two officers are lying, they would have too much to lose. The Pentagon, the gov't. and the 9/11 Commission are engaging in a massive cover-up, probably to protect Gorelick.
The only part about this entire story that I kinda question...is that they waited...and waited...and waited. It seems rather odd that they would wait this long, and now raise the flag. I'm willing to give them a open door...but they wait almost six months after the report was released to say this.
Another odd thing...this Able Danger group likely dragged up hundreds of individuals or tips...and how they seem to remember this one guy (Atta) and rattle off their statement is kind of amazing. They must have kept notes or something.
I have to agree with what you say!
No, they are not "warning shots". They are military officers on military business, not political partisans.
The political partisans can use them as they can, but the officers are not making statements to pursue a political agenda. They are simply telling the truth.
The political Pentagon "spokesman" has no business to be challenging their veracity the way he is. The Administration knows these men are telling the truth. They do not have the right to challenge their veracity, therefore, when they know it is true. That they are doing it in their logrolling game makes them skunks.
They did NOT wait.
They briefed their chains of command. Military officers do not give press conferences. They do not enter into the political arena. They perform their duties. These men forwarded this information up the chain. Scott Philpot was briefly interviewed by the 9/11 Commission. The political classes who sit atop the military, and who sat in that Commission, were not interested in what Captain Philpot had to say, and they were not interested in what was reported up the chain of command either.
What happened here was that a young officer, the LCDR, got sick of the bullshit and the lies of the political classes, both parties, and seeing that the lie was going to become the official truth, he broke ranks and told the truth.
And rather than let him be hung out to dry, his superior, Capt. Philpot, unenthusiastically stepped forward - when the malignant politicians of BOTH parties (let's keep this straight here; the Republicans are in command and they have not stood by these officers but have made statements that undermine them) made it clear that the LCDR was going to be destroyed and the truth denied, and his commander said "No, he's telling the truth. That's what happened."
So, Captain Philpot and this LCDR both just ended their careers, because they told a truth that the Democrats and Republicans both want to supress and massage for their own reasons.
They deserve medals. Instead, the Republican establishment is going to cashier them. The buck stops with the men in charge. And the men in charge on September 11, 2001, and the men directing DiRita, are REPUBLICANS, not Democrats.
Philpot came forth because he wasn't going to let his junior officer be eaten alive for telling the truth. So now they are both going to be eaten alive by the bastards in the Democratic Party. But I am going to focus on the bastards in the REPUBLICAN party who, instead of standing by their officers, are playing the discrediting games.
How these officers are treated will tell you everything you need to know about the honesty of the Bush Administration. They are telling the complete truth, as far as they knew it. They have reported this, in due course of business, up the chain and been ignored. The Administration controls the mechanism that can protect these people. If they don't, if instead you see Captain Philpot twisting in the wind, you will know - if you are discerning enough to listen to the Truth and understand it when you are being it told it - that the Bush Administration are lying snakes no better than the Clintons.
This is the Bush Administration's Billy Dale moment. Billy Dale is Scott Philpott. Watch what happens to him. If Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld are honorable, Philpott will be praised and protected. If they are Clintonesque, Philpott will be called "in error", and hung out to dry.
To those who can see, this is the great test.
Thank you for making my point.
It's you... he looks great!
LLS
lets see. 22 years = pension. I dont blame them for waiting for their pension to come in.
Their impact is even greater this way watching gore-lick fall into the trap.
Great idea about involking FOIA.
I bet these files are in the hands of the same DOD Clintonista Lawyers.
A conflict of interest for sure.
Time for a Special Investigation
4th anniversary of Sept. 11 will probably be awash in MSM's studious ignore of AD, but, like the Swift Boat Vets sub-MSM tidal wave, AD will underscore the anniversary for more of us than are researching it now. I predict even Jim Lehrer mentions AD prior to Sept 11.
Able Danger Dudes---do all you can to piss on the Clinton legacy
When watching him walk away from the camera, I'd say all his bicycling pays off in the end.
BTW--9/11/05 would be the perfect date to take out an add in the NY SLIMES to highlight ABLE DANGER'S account of things and remind the nation how Bill Clinton was engaged in more important activities.
Ditto......
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