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NYP: 'POST-IT' BLUNDER - Spies forced to 'cover up' Atta
New York Post ^ | August 10, 2005 | IAN BISHOP

Posted on 08/10/2005 5:43:03 AM PDT by OESY

...Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), the No. 2 man on both the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees, revealed that an elite military-intelligence unit known as Able Danger identified Atta and three other hijackers as likely members of a terror cell in this country as early as 1999.

The spies wanted to turn the info over to the FBI in 2000, Weldon said, "so they could bring that cell in and take out the terrorists."

He claimed Pentagon lawyers rejected the recommendation because they mistakenly believed that since Atta and the others were in the country legally on visas, they could not be investigated.

In fact, U.S. law bars such intelligence investigations only of American citizens and immigrant "green card" holders — but visa-holders such as Atta and the other hijackers are fair game. ...

Another reason for the Pentagon lawyers' actions, Weldon said, was a pre-Sept. 11 barrier that prevented the FBI and U.S. spy agencies from sharing intelligence — a practice the 9/11 commission criticized last year in its final report.

Jamie Gorelick, a deputy attorney general under former President Bill Clinton and a commission member, codified the separation between investigative and intelligence agencies in a 1995 memo.

Weldon first made his allegations in an unnoticed floor speech in June.

The issue heated up Monday after a story ran in the bimonthly Government Security News, which covers national-security matters....

But Weldon suggested Able Danger's explosive findings had been hidden from commission members.

"Let's put the intelligence folks under oath and let them be cross-examined. And let's put the staffers on the 9/11 commission under oath and let those under oath tell what information they gave," Weldon said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; 911coverup; 911hijackers; abledanger; atta; berger; bryanwhitman; bubbaslegacyredux; chickenshometoroost; cia; clinton; datamining; fbi; felt; felzenberg; gorelich; gorelick; goss; jamiegorelick; nationalsecurity; pentagon; plame; rove; securitynews; weldon; wilson
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To: martin_fierro

How about 'Deported August 13, 2005'


21 posted on 08/10/2005 6:03:45 AM PDT by JustAnotherOkie
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To: meandog
QUESTION: Why didn't the 9-11 Commission address this "revelation"...I saw no such mention of "Abel-Baker" in the report?

Weldon was on Fox and friends this morning. He said that the Commission staff interview members of the "Abel-Baker" team, and that several members offered to tesify further. The commission staff never informed their bosses about this. Still being investigated as to why the staff hid it.

Pushing for Congressional investigation.

I think this smells very much like a Clinton cover up operation

22 posted on 08/10/2005 6:05:49 AM PDT by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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To: OESY

Gorelick and Benvenista weren't on the 9-11 Commission by accident. They were appointed for one specific purpose -- to protect Clinton. And Sandy Bergler's pants-full of documents were additional insurance to protect Clinton.

The Clinton Legacy continues.


23 posted on 08/10/2005 6:05:59 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: OESY

what did shrillary know and when did she ignore it?


24 posted on 08/10/2005 6:06:08 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (Mr. Chambers! Don't get on that ship! The rest of the book, "To Serve Man", it's... it's a cookbook!)
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To: meandog
"QUESTION: Why didn't the 9-11 Commission address this "revelation"..."


Because the 9-11 Commission was made up predominately of enemies of this Republic.



25 posted on 08/10/2005 6:06:53 AM PDT by G.Mason
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To: OESY

Gorelick and Berger, Clinton's thugs. Amazing. Now Sandy's got his own think tank, a perpetual propaganda machine with multo $$$$ benefits. (Jamie?)Gorelick is probably similarly well off, and Hill plans to run for President on Bill's 'record'. Naturally the record must remain sacrosanct, otherwise Hill has nothing to run on but her own wretchedness.


26 posted on 08/10/2005 6:07:22 AM PDT by hershey
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To: andyandval
Northeast Intel Report and Neal Boortz. NIR is the article that really connects the dots in this "Sandygate"/Able Danger link. The rat's will do anything in order to hide the truth.
27 posted on 08/10/2005 6:11:25 AM PDT by conservativecorner (It's a cult of death and submission to fanatics Larry!!)
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To: OESY
Earlier article for those following this ... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1460263/posts



28 posted on 08/10/2005 6:12:10 AM PDT by G.Mason
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To: G.Mason

I hate to use a frog word but TOUCHE'!!


29 posted on 08/10/2005 6:12:13 AM PDT by conservativecorner (It's a cult of death and submission to fanatics Larry!!)
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To: JustAnotherOkie
If this is true...Surely, Clark would would have been passed this to Bush in his "warning to Bush about terrorists" which he noted at the hearings.

It was very obvious that information at the 9-11 hearings were "selective" and controlled by the Dems. Condi's interview was just so obvious, it was disgusting. How dare he "TRY" to cut her off in the middle of a dissertaion which would leave the record tainted with what they "wanted to hear" and not the whole truth.

30 posted on 08/10/2005 6:12:39 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: bitt

those two pictures, sadly, tell it all. I hope some artist picks up on it and puts them together somehow.


31 posted on 08/10/2005 6:14:44 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (see my FR page for a link to the tribute to Terri Schaivo, a short video presentation.)
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To: OESY
It probably won't happen but I want to say it, "Put a post-it on Hillary saying Goodbye 2008.
32 posted on 08/10/2005 6:15:27 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (Mr. Chambers! Don't get on that ship! The rest of the book, "To Serve Man", it's... it's a cookbook!)
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To: w1andsodidwe
Still being investigated as to why the staff hid it.

I mean, hell -- this is HUGE stuff, and the staffers never passed it on? One would almost think that there was a partisan tinge to these particular staffers, wouldn't you?

You're right: cover-up is the best bet.

33 posted on 08/10/2005 6:16:05 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: OESY

I won't be surprised if the left comes back and says, "Well, if it was so important, they should have broken the law and gone ahead and shared the information."


34 posted on 08/10/2005 6:18:49 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (Mr. Chambers! Don't get on that ship! The rest of the book, "To Serve Man", it's... it's a cookbook!)
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To: TomGuy

Correct. Gorelick did her job and was well paid by the Clintons.


35 posted on 08/10/2005 6:22:10 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Scratch a Liberal. Uncover a Fascist)
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To: martin_fierro

That sticker would read guilty of treason


36 posted on 08/10/2005 6:23:01 AM PDT by tom paine 2
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To: OESY

Does anyone believe there will be congressional hearings on this?


37 posted on 08/10/2005 6:23:27 AM PDT by afnamvet
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To: conservativecorner
The rat's will do anything in order to hide the truth.

Surely they will.

Thanks for the resource.

38 posted on 08/10/2005 6:28:59 AM PDT by andyandval
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To: bitt

A disturbing collage, one that should be regularly posted as Her Heinous gears up her run.


39 posted on 08/10/2005 6:29:29 AM PDT by A message (RINOs and Democrats must be voted out of office for the safety of our nation.)
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To: afnamvet
Does anyone believe there will be congressional hearings on this?

Sure. 50 years after the death of the last person directly involved.

But it won't happen in our lifetime.
40 posted on 08/10/2005 6:30:06 AM PDT by TomGuy
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