Posted on 08/11/2005 12:43:23 PM PDT by Pikamax
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Sept. 11 commission knew military intelligence officials had identified lead hijacker Mohamed Atta as a member of al-Qaida who might be part of U.S.-based terror cell more than a year before the terror attacks but decided not to include that in its final report, a spokesman acknowledged Thursday.
Al Felzenberg, who had been the commission's chief spokesman, said Tuesday the panel was unaware of intelligence specifically naming Atta. But he said subsequent information provided Wednesday confirmed that the commission had been aware of the intelligence.
It did not make it into the final report because the information was not consistent with what the commission knew about Atta's whereabouts before the attacks, Felzenberg said. The commission has gone out of existence, although a follow-up organization called the 9/11 Public Discourse Project continues to follow closely the Bush administration's progress in implementing their recommendations.
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If she lies, then she can go to jail.
Gorelick is a criminal on so many levels.
So....the commission lied? Sakes.
So they had a pre-determined outcome and Able Danger information didn't fit how they wanted the report to read.
And another freeper heard a radio call today. It was a 9/11 family member who said that Gorelick and another Commission staffer controlled all the information that got presented to the full Commission. For Gorelick, it's all about damage control and protecting the Clinton legacy. And that's what Sandy Berger's stuffing documents into his pants was all about too.
Gorelick is an outright no-exaggeration traitor.
She wanted to be DCI. Thank God THAT never happened.
I fervently hope she has a suddent and unexpected "canoeing accident."
True, but that's hard to prove.
If someone really got tough with her, she'd just cry.
Then the Republicans would be in a world of hurt with the media and the soccer moms.
ITA
That commission should never have been put up in the first place.
Berger's job was to hide the Iraq connection to OKC.
The Republicans certainly should never have agreed to make it a 50/50 "bipartisan" commission, but they never fail to disappoint.
NYT and now AP. This has officially hit the fan. Hope it lands on the right faces.
Oooooh. this might be an interesting season after all...
In a "real' world, Gorelick should be face down with a boot on the back of her neck and a dozen weapons drawn on her skanky, liberal ..........you know what....
"the information was not consistent with what the commission knew about Atta's whereabouts before the attacks,"
What the commission knew about Atta's whereabouts is obviously wrong. Whitewash of the Clinton Administration.
This reminds me of the contention that Atta never went to Prague in August of 2001 - despite the insistence of the Czech government that he was there.
Gorelick not only built the "wall" between the intelligence agencies...she built the "wall" between the information and the 9/11 commission's findings...
Does everyone believe these 9/11 commissioners that say they have NEVER heard of this...and had no knowledge before now?
Rep. Weldon keeps saying that he believe Roemer and Lehman when they say that....but I don't know...they were so "point their finger and shake it" at Bush for not implementing their changes faster, that none of them are gonna want a "finger pointed and shook at them" for not doing a good thorough enough job....
Agreed
Wouldn’t it be nice if Saddam finally fessed-up and admitted the Iraqi involvement in OKC and 9-11 and called Clinton a big fat liar? Hey I can dream can’t I?
Try to imagine if these geniuses on the 9/11 Commission had been running the Warren Commission.
We would have had not only a magic bullet that hit Kennedy, zig-zagged, hit Texas Governor John Connelly, and then exited through Connelly's wrist, the bullet would have been fired by an unlucky hunter somewhere near Shreveport, bounced off a tree, tumbled through the air, passed through the Texas School Book Depository, out the window, just missing Lee Harvey Oswald as he finished up his box lunch of fried chicken and sody pop.
"For Gorelick, it's all about damage control and protecting the Clinton legacy. And that's what Sandy Berger's stuffing documents into his pants was all about too."
I agree with you completely on both points.
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