Congressman: Defense Knew 9/11 Hijackers (R-PA, Curt Weldon)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/9/05 | Kimberly Hefling - AP

[NormsRevenge]

Video image from Portland International Jetport security shows suspected hijackers Mohammed Atta (R) and Abdulaziz Alomari (C) as they pass through airport security 11 September, 2001. A year before the September 11 attacks, Mohammed Atta and three other bombers had been identified as likely members of a cell of the Al-Qaeda operating in the US by a military intelligence team that recommended sharing the information with the FBI, The New York Times said(AFP/Portland PD/HO/File)

[Mike Darancette]

Bush's fault.

[NormsRevenge]

Also on Yahoo titled as

Congressman: 9/11 hijackers were monitored

[numberonepal]

Can it get legs the second time around? First the front page of the Slimes, now this?

[MIT-Elephant]

"didn't forward the information to law enforcement"

I can see it now...the Pentagon alerts local cops about suspected Muslim terrorists. The ACLU sues over profiling. The chief knows which side his bread is buttered on and rolls over to avoid the bad publicity.

The New York Times opines that immigrants shouldn't be watched. The Village Voice condemns the Bush administration's 'racist, fearmongering' agenda. Noam Chomsky condemns Israel.

CAIR launches a PBS series documenting Balkanized Muslim-Americans. John Kerry reminds everyone that this wasn't how they treated Muslims when he was in Vietnam.

[konaice]

The Sept. 11 commission will investigate a claim that U.S. defense intelligence officials identified ringleader Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers as a likely part of an al-Qaida cell more than a year before the hijackings but didn't forward the information to law enforcement.

This commission is DISBANDED! Someone put a muzzle on them.

The Defense department was fallowing the law that the Democrats and Klintoon passed. Don't blame the grunts on the line.

[NormsRevenge]

Poster earlier today on FR

NEVER FORGET!


Clinton Admin. Knew of 9/11 Hijackers ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1459968/posts

[gov_bean_ counter]

Any serious movement on this would have cost Hillary dearly with a section of the electorate that was critical to her election.

[Archon of the East]

Jamie Gorelick and the real "wall of separation".

[ConsentofGoverned]

Clinton's years in office were such a disaster to our security..these lawyers should have to explain what happened and they should be identified..Clinton's team
has dodged the bullet once too often..Hey Sandi Berger were these some of the documents you stuffed down your pants??
what other evidence of clinton adm failures have been hidden from us..a disgrace ..a shame ..3,000 died on 9/11 because of these PC leftist lawyers.

[the_Watchman]

Notice that this Yahoo/AP article fails to mention the charge by Ashcroft that the failure was due to a "wall" explicitly constructed by Assistant Attorney General Gorelick who was appointed at Hillary's behest.

Even the Newsmax article on this posted earlier today failed to note that Gorelick as seated ON the 9/11 commission at the behest of the Democrats.

[NormsRevenge]

Here's a Yahoo Search Results with lots of info about The Gorelick Wall

and a FR Search Results for Gorelick Wall as well. :)

[My2Cents]

more than a year before the hijackings but didn't forward the information to law enforcement.

Hmmm...Let me see...That would be prior to Sept. 2000. Who was President back then?...

[Jim_Curtis]

I can see it now...the Pentagon alerts local cops about suspected Muslim terrorists. The ACLU sues over profiling.

There was a news story shortly before 9/11 that was about protesting profiling of Arabs at the airports. I don't remember if the ACLU was involved in that one, maybe it was CAIR. It got me to wondering afterward if that wasn't part of the 9/11 plot.

[Sam Hill]

"The Sept. 11 commission will investigate a claim that U.S. defense intelligence officials identified ringleader Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers as a likely part of an al-Qaida cell more than a year before the hijackings but didn't forward the information to law enforcement."

LOL

There was this little thing called a "wall." (Brought to you by Jamie Gorelick and Janet Reno.)

[popdonnelly]

There needs to be some explaining as to how Jamie Gorelick remained on this commission and how the commission failed to report on this so-called "wall". I smell Washington deal making at its rankest. If Rove is going to be trashed for no reason, then make the Democrat bunglers and their enablers pay.

[deltabravo225]

intel unit "able danger" is the cover name for isa
Intelligence Support Activity. This spec op unit is even more classified than delta force. go check any spec op website and you will see the description. isa does human and electronic intelligence. they helped bag pablo escober in colombia.

[Temple Owl]

I have known Weldon since he was the mayor of Marcus Hook, He is an egotistical RINO and nut case and should be voted out of office.

[Spook86]

Check the timeline...the info wasn't passed in 1999, on Bill Clinton's watch--which is exactly why the Dims will (ultimately) decide to take a pass on this one. Digging into this matter raises a lot of disturbing questions about Clinton's cuts in the intelligence budget, and that infamous "wall" that panel member Jamie Gorelick created between the counter-intelligence and law enforcement communnities.

As a political matter, I'd say go for it, just to make the Democrats squirm. But as a practical matter, I don't think we'd learn much from this. Clearly, there were massive cooperation problems between intelligence and law enforcement before 9-11...this "revelation" proves what we already know...