It's time to investigate Able Danger and the 9/11 Commission

National Review Online ^ | Andrew C. McCarthy

[alienken]

It’s Time To Investigate Able Danger and the 9/11 Commission Crucial questions have gone unanswered too long.

'Tis the season when annual performance awards are handed out. If there is one for chutzpah, could there possibly be a more worthy candidate than the 9/11 commission?

It appears that this panel, an astronomically overrated study in self-absorption, is finally going away. You can never be too sure, of course. Clinging to the last fading glimmers of limelight, the august commissioners have already once overcome statutory death. Resurrecting themselves as an ombudsman through the miracle of private financing, they've been keen to morph from our high-profile raconteurs to our high-profile conscience. What they are, though, is a high-profile debacle.

How fitting that in its last not-so-official act of self-promotion, the commission has seen fit to grade out a report card on everybody else in government — even as it continues to tap dance around its own inexplicable derelictions of duty. These are most recently, but by no means exclusively, illustrated by the scandal over "Able Danger," the Defense Department's circa 1999-2001 data-mining intelligence project.

Though consciously ignored by the commission, whose key conclusions it contradicts, Able Danger appears to have identified Mohamed Atta and

[alienken]

This needs to get back into the news. Don't let this story fade away.

[Roccus]

To quote an old tag-line of mine,
"Able Danger? What's an Able Danger?"
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[pgobrien]

ping for a later read

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

I think the best way is to name a special investigator to examine the contributions and obfuscations perpetrated by Jamie Gorelick (Hilliary's buddy) during her membership on this commission. IMO, it was near-criminal to appoint her (and Ben Veniste as well), and ignore her role in facilitating the freedom of terrorists to operate within the US and abroad.

[Piranha]

Would you share the details of what you're talking about on this thread?

[Mark Felton]

The 9/11 Commission is just another example of the 2 parties working together to protect their power.

There is an uber-party of senior Republicans and Democrats who work together to ensure that the public maintains confidence in the current 2 party system, and work to ensure every possible means is used to keep and grow their power.

If the public were truly educated and informed most of the Republican and Democrat politicians, particularly the senior politicians, would be in jail for criminal violation of the US Constitution.

And both parties would be disbanded because of racketeering, collusion, money laundering, mail fraud, sedition, influence peddling, ...

For instance, the parties use unequal application of the law to the steal from the wealthy and buy off the poor. Over 70% of the fed budget is unConstitutional because it is used for benevolence programs and social engineering;

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." -- James Madison, 4 Annals of congress 179 (1794)

[AirBorn]

Bumped.

Always something that should be RALLIED FOR for the next big Pro-Troop march planned too!

Add posters of ABLE DANGER to list of those that should be carried around!

DAB

[Piranha]

Thank you for posting these details. I remember the incident, and I also do remember posts on various blogs (and, I believe, Free Republic) about the way that the discovery of this would-be terrorist was misrepresented by Clark.

[alienken]

Yes, good post. We need reminders like this.The politicians,Dems but sometimes Reps., count on our lack of attention/memories.