Posted on 08/11/2005 6:13:03 AM PDT by YaYa123
So, find out which Commission members were letting staffers do the work they were responsible for, and throw them out!
What a damning article. I still can't believed the NY Times is actually publishing it; no doubt to take heat off of their skullduggery into Roberts children's adoption records.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/11/politics/11intel.html?ex=1281412800&en=3c4c0f2346a58391&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
This was excerpted this morning from the NY Times which points at the staff ...Al Felzenberg, who served as the commission's chief spokesman, said earlier this week that staff members who were briefed about Able Danger at a first meeting, in October 2003, did not remember hearing anything about Mr. Atta or an American terrorist cell. On Wednesday, however, Mr. Felzenberg said the uniformed officer who briefed two staff members in July 2004 had indeed mentioned Mr. Atta....
Mr. Felzenberg said the commission's staff remained convinced that the information provided by the military officer in the July 2004 briefing was inaccurate in a significant way....
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.
"There was no way that Atta could have been in the United States at that time, which is why the staff didn't give this tremendous weight when they were writing the report," Mr. Felzenberg said. "This information was not meshing with the other information that we had."
But Russell Caso, Mr. Weldon's chief of staff, said that "while the dates may not have meshed" with the commission's information, the central element of the officer's claim was that "Mohammed Atta was identified as being tied to Al Qaeda and a Brooklyn cell more than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, and that should have warranted further investigation by the commission."
Mr. Caso: "If Mohammed Atta was identified by the Able Danger project, why didn't the Department of Defense provide that information to the F.B.I.?"
Mr. Felzenberg confirmed an account by Mr. Weldon's staff that the briefing... had been conducted....
I would say Gorlick rises to the top for sure. Not sure about Hamilton, he seems genuinely angry.
Lehman and Rohmer did not hear of this report because Weldon said both are livid.
Other than that, who knows but we need to find out. I am shocked at the NY Times on this.
Gorelick needs to be held accountable for her cover up. What's the next step?
Gorelick is surely behind the blocking of this information--she had to protect not only the Clinton admin and policies, but her own rear end. I wish I could be optimistic about some punishment coming to these people, but so far the Bush admin has been too busy making nice to lower the boom.
I was right on both counts.
I remember that as well. Commission still trying to cover up if you ask me but this one has legs.
"We, The People" have been lied to!
And at the risk of our national security!
I'm dumbfounded. ...and mad as hell.
I'm spittin' mad too. I have even less faith in our government to keep us secure.
It's not just Gorelick. Everyone on that commission needs to be eyeballed. Gorelick wasn't the only one with some incredibly unsavory conflicts of interest.
bttt
CAVUTO had a BIG segment on this last night....it has to go mainstream........
brings new impetus to finding out what was in Sandy's socks!
Yes, but in my estimation, she has the most to lose--next to the Clintons themselves.
That alone leaves me skeptical that any subsequent investigation will produce the truth and convict the guilty.
Burger’s sentence was delayed? I thought he got a $10K fine and a slap on the wrist.
I don't know, this is pretty fortuitous...the anniversary of 9/11 is just around the corner and the MSM will be refocusing on it....Rep. Weldon, God bless him, has been a bulldog on this and is not going to let it be covered up quietly -- this is a United States Congressman, and not some "right wing crackpot" bringing all this up now. He commands attention and will get it.
Criminally and/or civilly.
IMO, they've been purposely ignoring it.
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