Quick - google Dietrich Snell. Explains a lot about AttaGate.

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[epluribus_2]

don't have time to elaborate - see for yourself. This guy was the one Able Danger team briefed who decided it was not worthy of inclusion into the 9/11 report or even to the ears of comittee members since it did not fit their conclusions about Atta. THIS NEEDS TO P*O*P!

[Alas Babylon!]

Help me out. Who is the "I" refered to here:

It was Snell who took my "testimony" after I "testified" before the Commission on March 15th, 2004. When I showed up in the closed door conference room at 26 Federal Plaza (the same building that houses the FBI's NYO) Snell was accompanied by Marco Cordero, an FBI agent on loan to the Commission.

Was it Peter Lance? Why would Lance provide testimony on the 9/11 attacks?

[Enchante]

Sorry, yes, I should have identified that quotation as coming from Peter Lance - it appears in the interview with Jamie Glazov of www.frontpagemag.com

I'm not certain why he was interviewed by Snell, but I suspect he initiated contact with the 9/11 Commission, telling them he had found some important info, etc. Snell would probably claim that's why he wasn't deposed under oath, etc. (if he wasn't giving 1st-hand testimony) but it would be very interesting to know if Lance is right that perhaps "90%" or so of people interviewed by the staff of the 9/11 Commission were handled in such an 'informal' way -- with no oath, no transcript or formal deposition, etc. That would be outrageous - anyone who had any 1st hand knowledge of words or actions by gov't officials, etc. certainly should have been under oath and formal depositions should have been part of the record created by the 9/11 Commission.... otherwise they are simply leaving many loopholes, gray areas, and soft spots where no one coming after the commission can know what the real evidence was.....

[Grampa Dave]

"We can see why the 'Rats have been so desperate to cover up their history of pre-9/11 treachery, ineptitude, and malfeasance, "but why have the Republicans allowed them to get away with it (so far)????"

The rats control the media and most of the judiciary. So they can get by with murder without the average citizen even being aware of it.

Look at this mess re ATTA. It has been talked about for 3 days on conservative talk radio, FOX news, the few conservative print outlets and of course on the internet.

Yet the MSM has not run with it nor will they. So the great middle knows nothing about it nor will they.

Blaming the republicans for not getting the word out about as wrong as what the libs have done. We don't control the media nor can we get the time for our side of the story.

I heard on the 5 pm ABC radio news on the way home, that the mediots are after Tom Delay again, still carrying Cindy's story, and nothing about this story.

[Grampa Dave]

"I really try to resist tin-foil theories, but the 9/11 cover-up seems like it leads back to quite a rats' nest of massive FBI negligence and outright malfeasance re: Oklahoma City bombing, TWA 800, and the mis-handling of all the info and suspects related to the original 1993 WTC bombing. Could this all be tied together?"

The biggest mistake that we can make is trying tie all of the Clintoon crimes into this.

We need to focus on how the Gore Licker Wall prevented us from doing anything about Atta and his fellow mass murderers.

[Enchante]

"The rats control the media and most of the judiciary"

Definitely.... but what I want to know is why the Republicans have not pushed these matters HARD in the two institutions where they could have prevailed if they had the will and the 'nads: (1) 9/11 Commission (it does appear that there was a least a tacit if not explicit agreement to avoid a partisan blood-letting, though Ben Veniste certainly went over the edge with is assault on Condi Rice), and (2) Congress - where the Republicans could have forced committee hearings (in any number of committees) with subpoena power at any time up 'till now.

I don't know if it's lack of will, or fear of mutual blood-letting, or ignorance about just how awful the Clintonista record is for these matters, etc.

[Enchante]

"We need to focus on how the Gore Licker Wall prevented us from doing anything about Atta and his fellow mass murderers."

Agreed. That's the point at which the most leverage can be applied now. A lot of other things may be unravelled eventually (let's hope), but this very specific story about how Atta's cell was known but not pursued in 2000 is the key point of vulnerability now for the Clintonista machine.

[Grampa Dave]

It is not the lack of will or the nads. It is the media that controls the level of knowledge out there.

They will spike the Atta story, recycle the De Lay story, the Rove lies, and of course Cindy will get a lot of time.

[Grampa Dave]

We couldn't get the Clintoons before re their crimes and sins of omission. So we need to forget those for now and go after this story. The MSM will try to spike it and forget it.

[Alia]

bookmark. Good finds, Peach.

[mercy]

The 9/11 Commission worked under the Bush Adminstration.

The Bush adminstration will do NOTHING to bring the criminals involved in the coverup to justice.

Sandy Burglar?

[Buckhead]

You're on a roll. Fascinating stuff. Thanks for the ping.

[Tunehead54]

Great post bump!

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Interesting how you came aboard just before 9-11. Are you on the inside? ;-)

[potlatch]

Read post #5

[Enchante]

"Interesting how you came aboard just before 9-11. Are you on the inside? ;-)"

ha ha, no, I'm so far on the 'outside' it hurts (I can have all kinds of ideas of what should be done but not the slightest influence on anything or anyone). I started lurking for a few weeks late that summer, and it was pure coincidence that I signed up the week before 9/11 -- but that time period helped to get me 'hooked' since I found much better info and analysis on FREEREPUBLIC than with any of the MSM....

[spycatcher]

bttt

[Tunehead54]

Belated welcome and thanks for adding measurably to "better info and analysis" than the MSM provides.

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Nite Nite. ;-)

[kcvl]

Dietrich Snell

ON CLINTON'S WATCH: Feds Nixed Deal for Plane Plot Tipoff

Published: 9/25/01
GREG B. SMITH

Terrorist told of plan to crash into CIA's HQ
Two years ago, federal prosecutors turned down a cooperation offer from a terrorist who claimed he was part of a well-financed 1995 plot to crash an airplane into the CIA headquarters.

Abdul Hakim Murad said he got his pilot's license after training at several American flight schools, including one that is now under scrutiny in the terror investigation. Murad was convicted in 1996 for his role in a highly choreographed scheme to blow up 12 U.S.-bound jetliners flying out of Southeast Asia.

The Pakistani-born man said that in addition to the jetliner bomb plot, he and his co-conspirators were looking into using his flying skills to crash an aircraft into the CIA headquarters in Langley, Va.

"It was not something that we focused on. It was something that he said," recalled Dietrich Snell, the ex-prosecutor who convicted Murad. "We took seriously what he was telling us, but what we were focused on was the plot to blow up the 12 airliners."

U.S. Attorney Said No Deal
Snell, who left office in 1998, did not recall Murad coming forward to offer information in return for leniency in sentencing. But court papers and two sources familiar with the situation confirm that Murad did try to cooperate with Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White's office. He was turned down, the sources said.

It's not clear whether Murad's claims of a plan to fly a jet into the CIA buildings have any ties to the Sept. 11 attack on America. Murad gave investigators information that both resembles and bears no resemblance to the Sept. 11 attack.

His plan to blow up jetliners collapsed when bomb-making chemicals that he and his co-conspirator, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, were mixing caught on fire inside a Manila apartment.

Murad was captured in January 1994 in Manila, where he told Philippine interrogators about a plot he called "bojinka," or "big sound." In that scheme, he, Yousef and at least 10 others planned to get off the planes at stops along the planes' routes. The bombs would be detonated by timers in sequence over the Pacific, and none of the terrorists would be killed.

Got Pilot Training Upstate
"The whole crux of bojinka was to have timed explosions and the operatives to be off the flights and escaping," Snell said. "That's a fundamental difference between what happened two weeks ago at the World Trade Center and bojinka."

But there are similarities. Snell recalled that Murad told investigators about the suicide mission to crash a plane into the CIA building. "I remember him saying he thought about maybe getting a small plane or somehow get access to a small plane and crash it into the CIA," Snell said, adding, "There was never any mention of hijacking." And Murad noted that he got his commercial pilot's license after training at several U.S. flight schools, including ones in upstate Schenectady and North Carolina.

Last week, FBI agents showed up at the same Schenectady flight school, asking questions about a student who trained there. And several of the suspected hijackers are believed to have studied at flight schools around the U.S.

Snell said he has no way to know whether Murad could have provided investigators with information that would be relevant to the probe of the Sept. 11 attack. "I think it's pretty unlikely, but I don't know," he said. "I'd be guessing like everyone else."

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[kcvl]

Snell and the Terrorist’s Plea Bargain

The Times promoted the “Quiet but Aggressive Staff” on the 9-11 Commission. The story’s lead character, Dietrich Snell, tells the Times that he heard a terror suspect promise revenge as he was led away. The New York Daily News had a slightly different story in 2001.

Reporters Jennifer 8. Lee and Eric Lichtblau began: “When Dietrich Snell first felt his office shake on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 — the reverberations from the first jetliner crashing into the World Trade Center down the street — he ran into the office of his boss, the attorney general of New York, Eliot L. Spitzer. Mr. Snell, who was a federal prosecutor in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing case, had a feeling that this was no accident. Gazing through the windows at the burning tower, Mr. Snell told his co-workers, Mr. Spitzer said, that one of the defendants convicted in a terrorism case had warned as he was being led away: ‘We're going to get them. We're going to get them.’”

But the New York Daily News had a slightly different and more detailed Snell story on September 25, 2001. From the viewpoint of the 9-11 commission and the widows that promote it, Snell was part of the problem. Greg B. Smith reported: “Two years ago, federal prosecutors turned down a cooperation offer from a terrorist who claimed he was part of a well-financed 1995 plot to crash an airplane into the CIA headquarters.”

"It was not something that we focused on. It was something that he said," recalled Dietrich Snell, the ex-prosecutor who convicted Murad. "We took seriously what he was telling us, but what we were focused on was the plot to blow up the 12 airliners."

“Snell, who left office in 1998, did not recall Murad coming forward to offer information in return for leniency in sentencing. But court papers and two sources familiar with the situation confirm that Murad did try to cooperate with Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White's office. He was turned down, the sources said.”

[kcvl]

one of the key players involved in the Yousef-Scarpa intelligence back in 1996 was Dietrich Snell, the Assistant US Attorney who co-prosecuted Yousef in the Bojinka case which I say was the genesis of the TWA #800 crash.

Snell, who should have been a WITNESS before the Commission, was appointed one of its team leaders. He was the senior counsel charged with writing the staff statement on the genesis of the 9/11 plot. He was also the man assigned by staff director Philip Zelikow to interview me when I testified before the Commission on March 15th, 2004.

Later, after the book went to press, I found an FBI 302 which I had not seen initially, which put Snell in the room with Gregory Scarpa Jr. as he was describing the Yousef intel several months before the Bojinka trial that Snell himself would prosecute.

Peter Lance, a five-time Emmy-winning investigative journalist


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[John Lenin]

What did she know and when did she know it ?