Posted on 08/10/2005 9:13:33 PM PDT by Pikamax
9/11 Commission's Staff Ignored Military's Early Identification of Chief Hijacker By DOUGLAS JEHL and PHILIP SHENON
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 - The Sept. 11 commission was warned by a uniformed military officer 10 days before issuing its final report that the account would be incomplete without reference to what he described as a secret military operation that by the summer of 2000 had identified as a potential threat the member of Al Qaeda who would lead the attacks more than a year later, commission officials said on Wednesday.
The officials said that the information had not been included in the report because aspects of the officer's account had sounded inconsistent with what the commission knew about that Qaeda member, Mohammed Atta, the plot's leader.
But aides to the Republican congressman who has sought to call attention to the military unit that conducted the secret operation said such a conclusion relied too much on specific dates involving Mr. Atta's travels and not nearly enough on the operation's broader determination that he was a threat.
The briefing by the military officer is the second known instance in which people on the commission's staff were told by members of the military team about the secret program, called Able Danger.
The meeting, on July 12, 2004, has not been previously disclosed. That it occurred, and that the officer identified Mr. Atta there, were acknowledged by officials of the commission after the congressman, Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania, provided information about it.
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See this:
http://theanchoressonline.com/2005/08/10/able-dangersandy-berger-connection/
She links to Dr. Sanity and The Jawa Report; Dr. Sanity's got a timeline for the whole thing; Rusty (Jawa Report) has more.
http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2005/08/motive-for-bergers-bizarre-behavior.html
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/111281.php
I agree with you on Berger and Clark.
Also, for the past couple of weeks it seems we've had a thread a day about Clinton making a speech from some corner of the World. It's as if he's trying to pull the attention away from Washington for some reason or another.
The summer of 2000? President Bush should have taken action immediately that summer. Immediately! Oh, wait...
Mr. Felzenberg said staff investigators had become wary of the officer because he argued that Able Danger had identified Mr. Atta, an Egyptian, as having been in the United States in late 1999 or early 2000. The investigators knew this was impossible, Mr. Felzenberg said, since travel records confirmed that he had not entered the United States until June 2000.
Late 1999 would be around the millennium, now wouldn't it
I can't believe this was from the slimes. I hope Weldon keeps plugging away at this. We all deserve to know the truth about 9/11 and the warnings that were ignored ahead of it.
1964 - The Warren Commission
2004 - The 9/11 Commission
bump
Gorelick was responsible for the lack of intelligence shared between agencies, wasn't she? Didn't she author the memo in 1995 that preventing information sharing?
Bill Clinton was all about politics and ZERO about National Security. What else could explain why the Iraqi connection to the OKC Bombing was ignored, or why OBL on a silver platter was denied?
Bill Clinton was a coward, he and that useless moron Dick Morris never considered anything unless it was politically advantageous, and to Hell with what is good for the Country.
In the coming years, the Clinton Administration will be exposed and the History Books will not be kind to William Jefferson "Blythe" Clinton and the hundreds of "Fall Guys" he carefully chose to surround himself with
Yep!
Gorelick had no business being on that panel and should have been a witness
AND we would never have known about that memo if it wasn't for John Ashcroft brining it up at his hearing before the Commission
Gorelick went pale at that point
Jamie Gorelick, you are going down.
You can throw in the Church Committee and Torricelli in there for the down fall of our intell gathering
That's what I was thinking .. this sure doesn't sound like the Times.
BINGO, and Richard Clark is right behind her
There has to be an Able Danger paper trail regarding this information. If it no longer exists, then it should be reported and assumed that Berger destroyed the information.
I like the "travel records confirmed". What, they thought that knew exactly where he was every day of 1999?
Sounds more like it didn't fit into their notion of the problem, so they ignored it. A lot like the reason we didn't connect the dots before, and a lot like what happens so much in our government.
Here's a radical idea. Fire EVERY SINGLE CIVIL SERVANT. Then hire all new staff. You can re-hire the existing people, but the must be put in different departments.
Two years of hell, but after that, thousands of NEW IDEAS from people who don't know "how it is always done".
In my employment, they have a program which rotates people around. It hurts when you lose a good person out of your project, but it brings you new people who have a fresh perspective.
"Something really stinks in Washington when the republicans say nothing about Gorelicker and Sandy Burglar.They should have been raising hell over these two issues but instead they did nothing.The sellout just keeps rolling along."
I agree. I now want to see both parties destroyed.
The whole point of the 9/11 commision was to white wash the Clinton Administration.
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