Posted on 10/20/2005 6:42:44 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
Curt Weldon was just on the Dom Giordano radio show again this evening (~8:15 - 8:30), and he was on fire. From memory, here are some of the points he emphasized, along with some things he said were new:
1. Curt recently met and spoke with John Lehman, and Lehman told Weldon to keep after the Able Danger angle, because "if you don't, nobody else will".
2. Weldon praised other Congressman and Senators for staying interested and helping to get the ball rolling on the investigation. Specifically, Weldon mentioned Sensenbrenner, Specter, Biden, along with some others.
3. Curt discussed the debriefing of Scott Philpot (sp?) in July 2004 by Gorelick staffer Dietrich Snell, and how Snell apparently spiked the whole thing. Lehman and the other commissioners (at least SOME of the other commissioners) were left totally in the dark about the existence and importance of the Able Danger program and the information that it had turned up prior to 9/11.
4. Curt again mentioned the bizaree tale of Gorelick calling his office from her vacation in Boston and telling Weldon's Chief of Staff to "tell the Congressman that I did nothing wrong". Tonight Weldon revealed that Gorelick had ALSO called Specter's office TWICE and made exactly the same claim - - "I did nothing wrong". Curt said it was extremely puzzling since nobody had accused Gorelick of anything. Curt implied that what these calls did was raise serious suspicions about Gorelick (and her staffer, Snell). Curt said that the 9/11 Commission needed to be investigated!
5. In the week before the Cole attack, the Navy was warned TWICE to keep ships out of the Yemen harbor where the Cole was attacked. Able Danger had turned up information that indicated that a terrorist attack on Navy vessels in that area were imminent. The warnings were apparently ignored, and American sailors died.
6. Weldon has found a SEVENTH witness of "impeccable credentials" who ran a separate Able danger program. He will testify that Mohammed Atta was identified by name prior to the 9/11 attacks. He did not mention the witness's name, but he told Dom, "You will know who he is".
7. Curt was most disgusted at the treatment that Tony Shaeffer (sp?) is getting at the hands of the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency). The DIA has revoked Shaeffer's security clearance and told him that they were cutting him and his family off from all benefits, etc. They have hung him out to dry, and Weldon is absolutely livid. Shaeffer was fired. Part of the excuse used for firing him was his handing out government pens to his school classmates when he was 15 years old. I think Tony's father had gotten the pens while working at an embassy somewhere (?). Following the DIA's telling Shaeffer to take a hike, they sent him back several boxes of personal stuff, and whaddaya know? - - those boxes were loaded with CLASSIFIED letters and documents (some of which belonged to another DIA officer!), a GPS system, and..... 25 government pens. (You can tell that Curt's head is about to explode as he relates all this.)
8. Curt Weldon is a pitbull on this. He again said that if Congress refuses to get to the bottom of this scandal, then he will resign because he would no longer want to be a part of an institution which would cover up the facts behind the murder of 3,000 American citizens. Curt said again that by the time this is all over, "Watergate will look like a Sunday school picnic".
9. Weldon urged everybody in Dom's audience to contact their Senators and Congressmen relentlessly. (In a funny aside, Curt said to contact Specter "even if you don't like him".)
10. Most of Weldon's disgust was reserved for the DIA and the tactics that that organization is using to intimidate people and cover up their own disgraceful malfeasance. He said that one guy, a guy who is now Deputy Director at the DIA, was in a meeting years ago where Able Danger information was being revealed and the guy threw up his hands and said, "I don't want to hear this, I can't hear this", at which point he left the room! Curt thinks that the coverup is being orchestrated primarily to protect a bunch of suits like that guy who failed miserably at their duties and who, by their incomptence and negligence, allowed the unecessary mass murder of 3,000 citizens.
Okay, that's enough for now. It's tough to drive and listen and try to remember everything. As I think of more things that Curt mentioned, I'll add them to the thread. Weldon was on a roll, talking non-stop, and Dom Giordano, to his credit, let Curt go on and on without interruption. It was truly great radio.
Regards to all who want to stand with Congressman Weldon, LH
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I heard him on Hannity's radio show this afternoon. Now, will the world ever hear this???
BTTT!! And contact Congressmen and Senators.
Dom said that the New York Times, but NOT the Philadelphia Inquirer (surprise, surprise), have been on this story. It WILL continue to pick up momentum.
Victoria Taft Show just had him on. DougFromUpland is on right now, just mentioned FR.
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We need to call our reps, call talk shows and write letters to editors.
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BRAVO for remembering & posting all those details!
Please join the effort to support Weldon by using this Tagline (as suggested by Randy Larsen):
I BELIEVE CONGRESSMAN WELDON !!!
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My thanks to Lancey for the thread.
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