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!

[Grampa Dave]

piasa, thanks posting more great data and the ping.

I am pinging a few other freepers so they can index this and ping their lists.

[Churchjack]

B U M P everyone oughtta see this today...

[B Knotts]

Saturday BUMP

[petitfour]

bump for later

[Freee-dame]

Only Zelikow and Gorelick reportedly are allowed to read classified intelligence reports — known as the presidential daily briefs — in their entirety.

Justs think how much truth would be exposed if FreeRepublic and the power of informed internet users had been in charge of the commission.

[pinz-n-needlez]

An earlier report I read this evening (they're all running together) about Snell points out that the German cell members covered for one another when some were out of the country so that their absence wouldn't be tracked.

Snell should have known this when he heard the briefing. Good grief!

Pinz

[pinz-n-needlez]

This same Scarpa, who was the mobster informant in the Yousef case, was the same Scarpa who was the informant telling officials about all of the explosives under Terry Nichols' house.

One degree of separation on two huge terror acts. Wonder if he bought a ticket for Flight 800?

How weird is that??? Coincidence???

Pinz

[Travis McGee]

KA-BOOM!!

[G Larry]

Bump, for later reference!

This is HOT!!!

[combat_boots]

"Rep. Weldon speaks about "Able Danger" to the House, May 21, 2002. No use of the phrase "Able Danger", and no mention of Atta. Was it still classified, or did the Able Danger team only learn later that they had Atta on their list? Ahh! Per Weldon, the Able Danger team briefed Gen. Shelton in January 2001, but what did they say? Presentation, notes, recollections, testimony please.



From the Times:

Mr. Felzenberg confirmed an account by Mr. Weldon's staff that the briefing, at the commission's offices in Washington, had been conducted by Dietrich L. Snell, one of the panel's lead investigators, and had been attended by a Pentagon employee acting as an observer for the Defense Department; over the commission's protests, the Bush administration had insisted that an administration "minder" attend all the panel's major interviews with executive branch employees. Mr. Snell referred questions to Mr. Felzenberg.

Now, in trying to find out about Mr. Snell, I came across this, which I pass on *WITHOUT ENDORSEMENT*:

But Philip Zelikow, Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission, shocked [Peter] Lance, [author of "Cover Up", about the 9/11 Commission] with the news that his information would be taken privately by Commission team leader Dietrich Snell. For in 1996, when he was Assistant U.S. Attorney, Snell himself had helped to prosecute Yousef in the Bojinka trial, in a way that systematically excluded not only Scarpa's testimony but all reference to both KSM and Bojinka II.

As Lance wrote later in Cover Up,

Under objective circumstances, Snell would have made an important witness before the Commission. But in the heavily conflicted world of the Commission staff, he was hired to be one of its senior attorneys and team leaders.

The cover-up Lance wished to discuss with Snell was not over.

[The Commission's] Staff Statement No. 16, co-written by Dietrich Snell, concluded that KSM didn't begin planning the 9/11 attacks until 1996. There was no mention of Yousef's involvement in the plot. . . . If this take on the story were true, it would let the Justice Department and the FBI off the hook for ignoring the evidence presented to them . . . in 1995 -- evidence showing that Yousef and KSM . . . were planning to hijack airliners and fly them into six U.S. buildings . . . including the WTC."

http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2005/08/able_i_was_a_sk.html

[cookcounty]

"If we had new media this would be devasting. But the clowns who pass themselves off as reporters could never allow the 24/7 Natalie orgy to be interrupted by anything so trivial."

Fox News is getting close to the point where its total time spent on the "Aruba Cataclysm" will surpass total reportage on the Twin Towers.

Is that the Aruba garbage dump that smells so bad, or is it Greta Van Sustrand?

[cookcounty]

"Only Zelikow and Gorelick reportedly are allowed to read classified intelligence reports — known as the presidential daily briefs — in their entirety.

So they not only control the information flow to the full Commission, they got to read the entire PDB's.

So, the vicious and dishonest dustup with Condi over the August 2001 PDB was launched by either Zelikow or Gorelick, who, at the outset, took parts of the PDB out of context to facilitate a smear of Condi Rice. Gorelick and Zelikow were the only ones who saw the whole thing, so they were the only ones who could have done the selective editing.

[Enchante]

Must have been Gorelicker, unless Zelikow harbored a secret grudge against Condi - 'cause Zelikow was far from a partisan 'Rat like Gorelicker. The criticism of Zelikow being appointed Exec. Director was that he had co-authored a book with Condi and had advised the Bush transition team. I think he's come off as a very bi-partisan character, but certainly he was not an obvious Democratic mole, and nothing I've seen about him suggests that he would be co-ordinating that assault on Rice and Bush.

Gorelicker, on the other hand, was/is a whore for the Clintons, so she easily could do it..... and if she and Zelikow were the only ones to have complete access to the PDBs, then it seems apparent that she and Ben Veniste worked together to prepare that loathsome ambush of Condi Rice. All the more reason that Gorelicker needs to be tarrred and feathered, publicly revealed as a prime architect of both failed intelligence policies/procedures in the '90s "the WALL" and then also of the cover-up called the 9/11 Commission.

[Peach]

Exactly so.

[beyond the sea]

wow!

[justshutupandtakeit]

If it gets much worst the Cause of Death on my Death Certificat will read "Disgust".

[justshutupandtakeit]

If you followed the developing story on FR then you will have noticed that we knew it was Osama Bin Laden immediately and also immediately pointed to the Clinton complicity/neglect as the cause. That was one amazing day.

[justshutupandtakeit]

At whose instigation was Snell put on the Commission?

[justshutupandtakeit]

geez