WELDON REJECTS 9/11 COMMISSION CLAIM THEY NEVER HEARD OF "ABLE DANGER"

email from Weldon's office | 8-10-05 | Weldon office

[doug from upland]

I received this via email from Congressman Weldon's office. My contact there will be updating us. I told them that the FReepers are ready to help in whatever way we can.

[doug from upland]

The message is Aug. 11. I should have put that date, not Aug. 10, at the top of this piece.

[advance_copy]

Congressman Weldon is doing the right thing for our country. Here's a link to this letter on the Congressman's web site:

http://curtweldon.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=32193

[GianniV]

Why isn't the NY Times camping out in Jamie Gorelick's front lawn, demanding answers from her? Where are the Jersey Girls?

[TravisBickle]

Why is it that since the November election, the 9/11 Commission doesn't seem to get the same press coverage that it used to?

Maybe it's just me.

[stuckinNY-NJ]

This is what happens when liberals roll RINOs. National Security becomes compromised as the left chases Bush and Company (truth be damned they had a Presidential election to win) and the RINO's on the Commission sat back and let it happen.

[Peach]

The 9-11 Commission took a very high-profile role in critiquing intelligence agencies that refused to listen to outside information. The commissioners very publicly expressed their disapproval of agencies and departments that would not entertain ideas that did not originate in-house. Therefore it is no small irony that the Commission would in the end prove to be guilty of the very same offense when information of potentially critical importance was brought to its attention. The Commission's refusal to investigate Able Danger after being notified of its existence, and its recent efforts to feign ignorance of the project while blaming others for supposedly withholding information on it, brings shame on the commissioners, and is evocative of the worst tendencies in the federal government that the Commission worked to expose.

What a beautiful paragraph.

Let us know how we can help. I want Congressional hearings with under oath testimony as to why the information provided by Able Danger was ignored.

Let us know who to pressure. bbl

[airborne]

NOW THEY'RE ADMITTING THAT THEY DID!


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461205/posts

[BayouCoyote]

I told them that the FReepers are ready to help in whatever way we can.

I'm ready.

[XJarhead]

Weldon is doing the right thing. I'm not so sure about the headline attached to this post, however.

Weldon's email makes it abundantly clear that it was Commission staffers, not Commission members themselves, who were briefed on this. Weldon's email confirms that by specifically asking why those staffers did not pass that information on to the actual members of the Commission.

The problem is that some people are incorrectly reading and repeating this story as if the members of the Commission themselves were briefed, and we have no evidence of that. In other words, people are spreading some bum scoop about this that is going to create an issue where none need exist.

[doug from upland]

Maybe FReepers are the ones who should camp in front of Gorelick's and demand answers.

[Sunshine Sister]

There sure seems to be a lot of 911 stuff apprearing here today. I'm kind of curious...........why now? I'm also curious why the people who are responsible for the obstruction of information are not being held accountable for their actions. Doesn't anyone have to take responsibility any more?

[Peach]

Much as I'd love to do that, given the geography, I can't do that.

There must be people we can call and pressure.

[doug from upland]

I used when they provided in the email to me. Call his office and give your perspective.

[doug from upland]

"what" they provided in the email

[Boundless]

> Why isn't the NY Times camping out in Jamie Gorelick's
> front lawn, demanding answers from her?

Because they'd have to get in line behind the Clintons.

Jamie was on the Commish precisely to prevent this sort
of information from ever seeing the light of day.
She blew it.

[technomage]

Why isn't the NY Times camping out in Jamie Gorelick's front lawn, demanding answers from her?

Because she is not a Republican. So, it's okay to ignore this information that lead to the deaths of over 3,000 Americans and drew America into the War on Terror.

The NY Slimes and the libs would rather see this country completely wiped off the face of the earth rather than ever admit a liberal did something wrong. A childish, immature, ignorant and dangerous way to think and it borders on aiding and abetting the enemy.

[doug from upland]

Are you daring to question their patriotism? Yes. It is about damn time.

[homeywhite]

The NYT is too busy looking into adoptions. Get your priorities straight man!

[devolve]

On this date, Aug, 11, 1945 (VJ Day) The ship I served on during the War had been doing carrier plane guarding for a battle group in the Pacific.

When the Atomic bomb was dropped on Japan on Aug 6th, 1945, my ship was immediately ordered back to Pearl Harbor,  Arriving there on Aug 11 we were treated to the fantastic once in a lifetime spectacle  of one of the most impressionable fire power demonstrations one could imagine.

Every ship in the harbor lit the night sky with every kind of star shell, tracers. H/E and just plane small arms fire. This went on for hours.

This was a scene I shall live with forever and will never forget.

I was sitting in the old Pompano high school auditorium where  we listened to President Roosevelts speach declaring war on Japan in 1941 and here I was in 1945 in the very place it started and ended. 

I doesn't get any better than this.

 



Bud Garner