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Did political correctness or political stupidity enable 9/11?
www.hotchicken.com ^ | 8-23-05 | www.hotchicken.com

Posted on 08/23/2005 9:04:45 AM PDT by thebiggestdog

Scott J. Phillpott is an Navy officer who has come forward to say that an intelligence program named Able Danger pegged Mohamed Atta as a terror suspect in 2000. When Phillpott and Colonel Shaffer, another officer tried to give the information on Atta to the FBI they were 'overruled' by military lawyers.

Lawyers? Yep the pencil pushers somewhere in the military put the kybosh on sharing military information with the FBI. Members of the Sept. 11 commission talked with Phillpott and concluded that Atta was a member of an al Quada cell in New York. Amazing. Back in 2000 we knew what Al Quada was about, we knew they had a history of death and destruction, but yet some moron decided not to tell the FBI. To add insult to injury, the commission concluded that Phillpott's intelligence program "did not turn out to be historically significant."

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: 911; abledanger; atta; fbi; military; phillpott; politics; shaffer
Military intelligence knew that Mohamed Atta had ties to an Al Quada operation in Brookly NY in early 2000, but military lawyers did not allow the information to be given to the FBI. It is a sad state of affairs when we have pencil pushers making decisions about the safety of our country.
1 posted on 08/23/2005 9:04:48 AM PDT by thebiggestdog
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To: thebiggestdog

Political correctness, political stupidity... a little redundant?


2 posted on 08/23/2005 9:06:50 AM PDT by RedBeaconNY (Vous parlez trop, mais vous ne dites rien.)
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To: thebiggestdog

I don't know, but Jamie Gorelick sure does know. Feel free to contact her at her swank DC law firm - http://www.wilmerhale.com/jamie_gorelick/.

She just wants to get to the "truth" concerning 9/11.


3 posted on 08/23/2005 9:07:57 AM PDT by GianniV
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To: thebiggestdog
"Did political correctness or political stupidity enable 9/11?"

Um....Yes.

4 posted on 08/23/2005 9:08:23 AM PDT by xcamel (Deep Red, stuck in a "bleu" state.)
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To: xcamel

Beat me to it!


5 posted on 08/23/2005 9:14:35 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Islam is not a religion, but rather a means of world conquest" - ALAN BURKHART.COM)
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To: thebiggestdog
... or was it something not quite so benign?


sandy berger haberdashery feint
(the specs, not the pants or the socks)


WHY DID BILL CLINTON IGNORE TERRORISM?
Was it simply the constraints of his liberal mindset, or was it something even more threatening to our national security?



Why hillary clinton should never be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office... or any position of power--THE SERIES
REASON 1: MISSUS CLINTON HIRED JAMIE GORELICK

6 posted on 08/23/2005 9:17:24 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: thebiggestdog

Political correctness was only a part of the story. Clinton also had no use for the military or any other agency that would actually take action in keeping America safe (Probably preferred that CIA & FBI & State Dept. were there as decorations on a Christmas tree) He was so involved in saving his own ass over the Lewinsky thing he couldn't possibly concentrate on getting terrorists in the US too. I think its wrong to claim stupidity (political or otherwise) when you're in the CIA< FBI or the Chief Executive of the United States.


7 posted on 08/23/2005 9:51:39 AM PDT by brooklyn dave (confirm Roberts NOW)
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To: thebiggestdog

I grew up in Bay Ridge Brooklyn (my mom still lives there) which has a large Arab pop. I really wonder how much Islamofascism is happening among all those folks. You see more women with the hijab (head shmatte)than I care to look at----some of their husbands would do better wearing the hijab.


8 posted on 08/23/2005 9:54:40 AM PDT by brooklyn dave (confirm Roberts NOW)
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