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!

[kcvl]

Cover Up
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 27, 2005


Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Peter Lance, a five-time Emmy-winning investigative reporter and author of the bestselling 1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI -- The Untold Story. He is the author of the new book Cover Up: What the Government Is Still Hiding About the War on Terror.


http://tinyurl.com/bdyj6

[longtermmemmory]

Do we need a lone protester to follow her around the nation now?

Those are not Hilary's thunder thighs, those are the ABLE report papers....

[Freedom is eternally right]

http://tinyurl.com/7qgt4

(This is being said by Peter Lance)
I believe Dietrich Snell should answer publicly:

a) Why the last official body looking into the biggest mass murder in U.S. history left out probative evidence of an al Qaeda connection to the second biggest: TWA #800.

b) Why the DOJ initially kept the hunt for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed so secret and

c) Why they buried evidence that the 9/11 plot was created by Ramzi Yousef (the original WTC bomber) and his uncle as early as the fall of 1994.

What surprised you the most about the experience? What was the most frustrating aspect of the experience?

The frustrating part was sitting across from Dieter Snell who wouldn’t answer why he and his partner limited the scope of the Bojinka trial and never called Col. Mendoza.

In the end, the Commission reduced my findings to an end note and, still never mentioned Colonel Mendoza’s name. Why?

[McGavin999]

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

Did you ever think it might just be a matter of timing?

[kcvl]

in failing to stop KSM in 1995 and 1996 the DOJ sealed his name and kept the hunt for him secret until early January of 1998 when the 9/11 plot was well in motion.

The DOJ/FBI cover up in the late summer of 1996 also explains why lead intelligence officials apparently blew an opportunity to pursue the evidence of Col. Mendoza from the Philippines in 1995.

By 1996 it was in the interest of senior DOJ and FBI officials to minimize the importance of Ramzi Yousef as the architect of the 9/11 plot. First, they had him incarcerated and possessed enough evidence to put him away for 240 years. But more importantly, they didn't want the full story to come out about how the FBI could have stopped Yousef in the fall of 1992 prior to his first date with the Trade Center.

[kcvl]

On the night of 9/11 -- it was 13 hours ahead in the Philippines. As Col. Mendoza sat working on a report he got an text message on his Nokia cell phone. It said, "urgent turn on CNN." When he did, only to see the South Tower fall, the first words out of his mouth when he called backed his friend were "They have done it. They have DONE it..." That's how certain he was that Yousef's plot exposed to him by Murad in 1995 -- which he had warned the Feds about in the spring of 1995 -- had been executed.

FP: How does all of this tie in to the 9/11 Commission?

FP: Do you remember Dietrich Dieter Snell, the AUSA who was the co-prosecutor on the Bojinka case. Well, an FBI #302 memo from 3/7/96 on my website shows that he was a direct party to all of the Scarpa-Yousef intelligence on TWA #800. Yet in early April, 2004 when forensic investigators Angela Clemente and Dr. Stephen Dresch, presented these #302's to the 9/11 Commission, not a word of any of this showed up in their final report published in late July, 2004. The report nominated for The National Book Award.

Understand the significance of this. Here is evidence from the FBI's own files of al Qaeda involvement in the second biggest act of terror in U.S. history and the 9/11 Commission -- lead by investigators like Dieter Snell, flushes it all.

Furthermore, Snell took all of the evidence from Col. Mendoza in the Philippines, which I presented following my testimony to the Commission in March, 2004 -- evidence which sets the genesis of the plot with Yousef and KSM in the fall of 1994 and he reduced it all to a end note at the end the book pushing the genesis of the plot FORWARD to 1996 and claiming that KSM had acted alone and that only recently had he joined al Qaeda.

My authority was Col. Rodolfo Mendoza, the man who interrogated Abdul Hakim Murad for 67 days. I sent the 9/11 Commission a transcript of my interview with the colonel in March, 2002, the video tape of the interview and multiple declassified PNP memos showing that all of the Yousef-KSM Manila plots 9n 1995-95 -- Bojinka, the plot to kill the Pope and the plot executed on 9/11 -- were funded directly by OBL via his brother in law.

But Dietrich Snell's source for the genesis of the plote in 1996 -- two years later -- in which an alleged lone KSM came up with the plan -- was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed himself.


http://tinyurl.com/bqnuo

[Freedom is eternally right]

Well this quote from the link I posted above certainly doesn't give me hope for a good outcome of the Plame leak investigation:

Then click on the one for 3/7/96 and you’ll find an internal FBI memo showing that Snell and two other senior Department of Justice officials (Valerie Caproni, chief of the criminal division for the EDNY (Eastern District of New York) and Patrick Fitzgerald, head of terrorism and organized crime in the SDNY (Southern District of New York) knew of the intelligence coming from Yousef, in the spring of 1996.

And this is the answer to another question:

Commissioner Jamie Gorelick was deputy A.G. in 1996 at a time when I contend the Department of Justice engaged in a cover up of the al Qaeda links to TWA #800. She and Zelikow were the only representatives of the Commission (beyond the chair and co chair) who were given FULL access to all of the classified docs.

[kcvl]

In 1995, a Philippine colonel named Rodolfo Mendoza informed American authorities that he'd obtained a confession from Abdul Murad, a close associate of Yousef's, who revealed then that Yousef - in addition to assassination plots against the Pope and President Bill Clinton - was working on plans to send a hijacked airliner crashing into one or more of six possible targets in the United States. These included the Pentagon, the World Trade Center, a nuclear power plant, the Sears Tower in Chicago, and the Transworld Building in San Francisco. No date was set. In addition, Mendoza said Murad told him that Yousef had enrolled his accomplices in flight-training schools.

[Freedom is eternally right]

For future reference, names of committee members and staff (sorry for the format, just a copy and paste thing ):
Thomas H. Kean
chair
Richard Ben-Veniste
Fred F. Fielding
Jamie S. Gorelick
Slade Gorton
Lee H. Hamilton
vice chair
Bob Kerrey
John F. Lehman
Timothy J. Roemer
James R.Thompson
COMMISSION
MEMBERS

Joanne M. Accolla
Staff Assistant
Alexis Albion
Professional Staff Member
Scott H. Allan, Jr.
Counsel
John A. Azzarello
Counsel
Caroline Barnes
Professional Staff Member
Warren Bass
Professional Staff Member
Ann M. Bennett
Information Control Officer
Mark S. Bittinger
Professional Staff Member
Madeleine Blot
Counsel
Antwion M. Blount
Systems Engineer
Sam Brinkley
Professional Staff Member
Geoffrey Scott Brown
Research Assistant
Daniel Byman
Professional Staff Member
Dianna Campagna
Manager of Operations
Samuel M.W. Caspersen
Counsel
Melissa A. Coffey
Staff Assistant
Lance Cole
Consultant
Marquittia L. Coleman
Staff Assistant
Marco A. Cordero
Professional Staff Member
Rajesh De
Counsel
George W. Delgrosso
Investigator
Gerald L. Dillingham
Professional Staff Member
Thomas E. Dowling
Professional Staff Member
Steven M. Dunne
Deputy General Counsel
Thomas R. Eldridge
Counsel
Alice Falk
Editor
John J. Farmer, Jr.
Senior Counsel & Team Leader
Alvin S. Felzenberg
Deputy for Communications
COMMISSION
STAFF
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Philip Zelikow, Executive Director
Christopher A. Kojm, Deputy Executive Director
Daniel Marcus, General Counsel
Lorry M. Fenner
Professional Staff Member
Susan Ginsburg
Senior Counsel & Team Leader
T. Graham Giusti
Security Officer
Nicole Marie Grandrimo
Professional Staff Member
Douglas N. Greenburg
Counsel
Barbara A. Grewe
Senior Counsel, Special Projects
Elinore Flynn Hartz
Family Liaison
Leonard R. Hawley
Professional Staff Member
L. Christine Healey
Senior Counsel & Team Leader
Karen Heitkotter
Executive Secretary
Walter T. Hempel II
Professional Staff Member
C. Michael Hurley
Senior Counsel & Team Leader
Dana J. Hyde
Counsel
John W. Ivicic
Security Officer
Michael N. Jacobson
Counsel
Hunter W. Jamerson
Intern
Bonnie D. Jenkins
Counsel
Reginald F. Johnson
Staff Assistant
R.William Johnstone
Professional Staff Member
Stephanie L. Kaplan
Special Assistant & Managing Editor
Miles L. Kara, Sr.
Professional Staff Member
Janice L. Kephart
Counsel
Hyon Kim
Counsel
Katarzyna Kozaczuk
Financial Assistant
Gordon Nathaniel Lederman
Counsel
Daniel J. Leopold
Staff Assistant
Sarah Webb Linden
Professional Staff Member
Douglas J. MacEachin
Professional Staff Member & Team Leader
Ernest R. May
Senior Adviser
Joseph McBride
Intern
James Miller
Professional Staff Member
Kelly Moore
Professional Staff Member
Charles M. Pereira
Professional Staff Member
John Raidt
Professional Staff Member
John Roth
Senior Counsel & Team Leader
Peter Rundlet
Counsel
Lloyd D. Salvetti
Professional Staff Member
Kevin J. Scheid
Professional Staff Member & Team Leader
Kevin Shaeffer
Professional Staff Member
Tracy J. Shycoff
Deputy for Administration & Finance
Dietrich L. Snell
Senior Counsel & Team Leader
Jonathan DeWees Stull
Communications Assistant
Lisa Marie Sullivan
Staff Assistant
Quinn John Tamm, Jr.
Professional Staff Member
Catharine S.Taylor
Staff Assistant
Yoel Tobin
Counsel
Emily Landis Walker
Professional Staff Member & Family Liaison
Garth Wermter
Senior IT Consultant
Serena B.Wille
Counsel
Peter Yerkes

[John Lenin]

The GOP better start playing hardball. Time to put the country ahead of a few political careers.

[mercy]

I have zero faith.

[kabar]

From the Washington Post:

HAMBURG, March 9, 2005 -- The U.S. commission investigating the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, found no direct evidence that the Hamburg-based radicals who hijacked the four airliners shared details of the plot with a Moroccan man on trial here, an attorney for the commission testified Wednesday.

The statements by Dietrich Snell, who headed the bipartisan panel's investigation into the Hamburg cell and was on the stand for a second day, bolstered the alibi given by the defendant, Mounir Motassadeq, who is being tried on more than 3,000 counts of accessory to murder for allegedly aiding the hijackers.

Motassadeq has acknowledged being friends with three of the hijackers in Hamburg. But he has denied knowing anything about the Sept. 11 conspiracy before the attacks.

Prosecutors were hoping that Snell, one of the authors of the final report issued by the commission last July, would shed more light on Motassadeq's involvement with the Hamburg cell. But the U.S. lawyer said the commission found no concrete signs that the plotters shared their plans with the defendant.

"What emerged from our investigation was essentially a sketchy pattern," Snell said, explaining that there were hints that outsiders may have known what the hijackers were up to but nothing solid.

Motassadeq, 31, is the only person so far convicted for playing a role in the Sept. 11 attacks. In 2003, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison, but the verdict was overturned last year by a German appellate court, which ruled that the evidence against him was too weak to justify the conviction.

The commission's findings about the workings of the Hamburg cell were based largely on the interrogations of two captured al Qaeda leaders whom investigators consider to be central organizers of the plot: Ramzi Binalshibh and Khalid Sheik Mohammed. The U.S. Justice Department has provided the Hamburg court with summaries of statements made by Binalshibh and Mohammed, both of whom said that Motassadeq and others in Hamburg were intentionally kept in the dark.

German prosecutors have tried to challenge the veracity of the statements, pointing out inconsistencies in what they said and arguing that Binalshibh and Mohammed had a motive to lie to cover up for their friends. Snell, during his two days in the witness chair, urged the court to use caution in evaluating the detainees' statements, saying that the commission had suspected that the al Qaeda leaders might be trying to protect other conspirators.

The report found several instances in which Binalshibh "attempted to exonerate individuals," Snell said. A five-judge panel of German judges is hearing Motassadeq's retrial. A verdict is due in May.

[McGavin999]

Well, I just think there is a time for everything. First things first....Afghanistan and Iraq, then comes the UN and the Oil for Food, then we start with the home front.

It takes a lot of time to build a case that will be airtight. Years! When you are dealing with our court system, you'd better have all your ducks in a row.

[Enchante]

I've been perusing the bios of 9/11 Commission members and staffers. The following may be in need of close scrutiny for possible Democratic biases and/or conflicts of interest. The commission's website does not indicate party affiliations, so a lot of this is my guesswork, but the ones listed below strike me as at least worthy of more research. Certainly Jamie Gorelick and Richard Ben Veniste never should have been on the commission in the first place, but it would be interesting to know more about the staffers who were doing a lot of the legwork. I hope most of them were doing their patriotic and professional duty, but from what we saw of the public hearings and now this "Able Danger" fiasco, it's not hard to suspect that there were some 'moles' working more on behalf of the Clintons and the DNC than for the country.

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http://www.9-11commission.gov/about/bios_staff.htm

Jamie Gorelicker and Richard Ben Veniste -- 9/11 Commission members who are obvious political hacks selected for their loyalty -- and in Gorelicker's case, because she certainly knew what avenues of inquiry must be blocked, distracted, diverted, etc.


Some selected 9/11 Commission Staffers possibly deserving closer scrutiny:


Daniel Marcus, General Counsel
Daniel Marcus, General Counsel of the Commission, was for many years a partner in the Washington law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering [ALSO JAMIE GORELICK'S LAW FIRM], serving on the firm's Management Committee from 1995 to 1998. During the Carter Administration Mr. Marcus was Deputy General Counsel of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture. He returned to Government service in 1998 [DURING MONICAGATE HE BECOMES "SENIOR COUNSEL" TO THE CLINTON WHITE HOUSE] as Senior Counsel in the White House Counsel's office. From 1999 to 2001 he held several senior positions at the Department of Justice, [SO HE GETS REWARDED FOR HIS LOYALTY AFTER THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL.... HMMMMM....] including Associate Attorney General.


Christopher Kojm, Deputy Executive Director
Christopher Kojm served from 1998 until February, 2003 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence Policy and Coordination in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He served previously in the Congress on the staff of the House International Relations Committee, under Ranking Member Lee Hamilton as Deputy Director of the Democratic staff (1997-98), as Coordinator for Regional Issues (1993-1997) and under Chairman Hamilton on the Europe and Middle East subcommittee staff (1984-92).



[don't know for sure which of these are Democrat loyalists, but all seem to have either a possible conflict of interest with previous work done for Clinton's national security apparatus and/or some political connection that could indicate a reliable Democratic 'fixer' for the 9/11 inquiry]:


Scott Allan. Counsel. Former special counsel to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. Practice and legal studies focused on international law. Law clerk for the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

John Azzarello. Counsel. Former attorney at Carella Byrne in New Jersey. Former Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division in the United States Attorney’s Office in Newark and a former legal commentator on Court Television Network.

Caroline Barnes. Professional staff member. Former Senior Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Analyst in the FBI's National Security Division. Most recently on special assignment from FBI to the Department of Energy, serving as founder and Director of the Department's Counterintelligence Analysis Program.

Warren Bass. Professional staff member. Former Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, directing the Council’s special terrorism project. Author of Support Any Friend: Kennedy’s Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance (Oxford UP).

Dianna Campagna. Manager of Operations. Former principal director of Housing and Urban Development’s Executive Secretariat. Held management positions in real estate. Managed the paper flow and office systems in the White House Counsel’s office and, prior to that, at the White House Office of the Staff Secretary.

Lance Cole. Consultant. Assistant Law Professor at Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law. Served as Deputy Democratic Special Counsel for the Senate Whitewater Committee.

Marco Cordero. Professional staff member. FBI Special Agent the last seven years assigned to investigate counterterrorism matters the last four years. Formerly with the U.S. Border Patrol.

Raj De. Counsel. Former litigation associate at O'Melveny & Myers and former trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice. Served as a law clerk to the Honorable A. Wallace Tashima of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

Nicole Grandrimo. Professional staff member. Former regional affairs officer in the Office of Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the State Department.

Barbara Grewe. Senior Counsel. Associate General Counsel GAO, working on investigations of fraud in government operations or contracts. Served as Special Investigative Counsel for DOJ Inspector General’s 9-11 review. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

Len Hawley. Consultant. Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, NSC Director for Multilateral Affairs, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acting).

Christine Healey. Senior Counsel. Formerly with the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the U.S. House of Representatives, serving most recently as Democratic counsel and chief of staff.

Walt Hempel. Consultant. Former Senior Special Agent with INS, served as a regional task force coordinator for narcotics and counter-terrorism. Most recently, special projects manager at DHS responsible for Federal, state and local law enforcement integration.

Michael Hurley. Senior Counsel. CIA officer and attorney. Served two tours at the National Security Council as director of Southeast European Affairs with responsibilities for Kosovo and Bosnia. Served in Afghanistan during 2002-2003.

Dana Hyde. Counsel. Former attorney with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (London) and Zuckerman Spaeder (Washington, DC). Served as special assistant to the deputy attorney general and as special assistant to the president for Cabinet Affairs in the Clinton administration.

Bonnie Jenkins. Counsel. Fellow at Harvard’s JFK School’s Belfer Center. Assistant director of the State Department’s Kosovo History Project from 1999 to 2001, formerly worked on the National Commission on Terrorism (1999-2000) and as general counsel for the Commission on the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Also a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve.

William Johnstone. Professional staff member. Served for over 20 years as a senior Congressional staff member, most recently as senior policy advisor and legislative director for Senator Max Cleland. Formerly with the Department of Labor.

Stephanie Kaplan. Special assistant. Former assistant director for international security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a former associate with the Aspen Strategy Group, a policy program of The Aspen Institute.

Daniel Leopold. Staff assistant. Recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin’s La Follette School of Public Affairs. Interned at the State Department’s Bureau of European and Regional Affairs, the Foreign Service Institute, and the Defense Department’s Office of Public Affairs.

Charles Pereira. Consultant. Currently Senior Aerospace Engineer in the Vehicle Performance Division of the National Transportation Safety Board, with responsibility for investigating aviation, rail, and marine accidents. Some prior aviation investigations include the 1991 mid-air collision involving Senator John Heinz, the 1994 intentional crash of a Cessna 172 into the White House area, TWA Flight 800, USAir Flight 427, the USAF 737 crash in Croatia involving Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, the Aviation Charter, Inc. crash in Minnesota involving Senator Paul Wellstone, and the crash of the Space Shuttle Columbia.

Peter Rundlet. Counsel. Former attorney in the Political Law Group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Former associate counsel to the President and White House Fellow, serving in the Office of Chief of Staff to the President.

Dietrich Snell. Senior Counsel. Deputy Attorney General, New York, Division of Public Advocacy. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York. Criminal Division.

Yoel Tobin. Counsel. Veteran attorney at the Department of Justice, working for the last seven years in the Counterterrorism Section of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

[little jeremiah]

I hope this man has someone at his back.

[Freedom is eternally right]

Something that jumped out immediately is that Christopher Kojm "served from 1998 until February, 2003 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence Policy and Coordination in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research". That is the same bureau that Greg Thielmann was in, but Thielmann was in the proliferation department.

[nutmeg]

I admit I haven't had time (and don't have time now) to look at this thread closely, but it sure appears to be interesting. Start with post #5...

[nopardons]

bttt

[Freedom is eternally right]

From the American Bar Association October, 1996

Ms. Healey is the Senior Counsel (Minority Staff) of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where she previously served as staff director of the Subcommittee on Legislation. A graduate of Harvard University and the Georgetown University Law Center, Ms. Healey served for six years as a senior legislative assistant to Representative Barbara B. Kennelly (D-Conn.).

http://tinyurl.com/9mf4x

[Enchante]

YUP, she's certainly square in the middle of Democrat intel and security issues in the mid-to-late-90s.... no conflict of interest there!

Way back when, I naively imagined that while both parties would want to get "their people" onto the 9/11 Commission, that they would deal with the obvious conflict-of-interest issue by going back more than a decade, say, to people like Lehman who served in the '80s.... but to have all these Clintonistas and people from the Democratic staffs of the '90s.... well, the conflict-of-interest is too blatant -- they not only have to evaluate their own party members, they are being asked to evaluate THEMSELVES and their closest friends and colleagues.