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]

Let me know what you feel about the book. I will be needing a couple of books for the fall season.

[federal]

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[Fedora]

Thanks for the ping!

[OldFriend]

I can't remember the name. It was a totally unfamiliar name.

Wish we could get a complete transcript of that interview. I don't even remember the name of the family member.

[sandydipper]

Mary Jo White - US Atty for South Manhattan - ain't she the one that no billed any Muslim connection to the TWA 800 debacle?

[eureka!]

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[DumpsterDiver]

Quick, read these results:

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Dietrich Snell actively participated in the following events: ... Dietrich Snell, the prosecutor who convicted Murad, says after 9/11 that he doesn't ...
www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=dietrich_snell

Context of 'February 1995' - Dietrich Snell, the prosecutor who convicted Murad, says after 9/11 that he doesn't remember any such offer. But court papers and others familiar with the ...
www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a0295thirdplot

Statement by Deputy Attorney General for Public Advocacy Dietrich ... Office of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. The People's Lawyer -- is dedicated to aggressively prosecuting and defending the interests of all ...
www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2002/sep/sep05b_02.html

9/11 Panel's Findings Strain German Case (washingtonpost.com) - Dietrich Snell, who headed the commission's team that investigated the origins and role of the Hamburg cell, told a panel of five German judges hearing the ...
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18219-2005Mar8.html

Manipulating the "Sharp" Decline -- April 29, 2004 -- TimesWatch.org - The story's lead character, Dietrich Snell, tells the Times that he heard ... Lee and Eric Lichtblau began: "When Dietrich Snell first felt his office shake ...
www.timeswatch.org/articles/2004/0429.asp

1115.org - West Coast Cap Peelers » » The 1115 Interview: Cover Up ... Your commission session with Dietrich Snell looks like a perfect example of all that is wrong with the Commission. You spoke with a DOJ lawyer who was in a ...
www.1115.org/?p=624

ON CLINTON'S WATCH: FEDS NIXED DEAL FOR PLANE PLOT TIPOFF - 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 ...
www.papillonsartpalace.com/on.htm

Investigator: Bin Laden Approved Plot Two Years Before 9/11 - The testimony by Dietrich Snell, a New York deputy attorney general, was based on the Sept. 11 Commission's report to the US Congress, which he worked on. ...
www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/3/8/134025.shtml

By Peter Lance Regan Books, an imprint of Harper-Collins; 2004 ... the former Deputy AG in New York Attorney General Spitzer's office, Dietrich Snell, who joined the 9/11 Commission staff as a 'team leader', ...
www.peterlance.com/911truth-review.htm

FrontPage magazine.com :: Cover Up by Jamie Glazov 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 ...
www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16795

[Enchante]

SCANDAL AND COVER-UP...and then there's this - between Jamie Gorelick, Dietrich Snell, and the blocking of info on "Able Danger" from the 9/11 Commissioners, this whitewash 9/11 report needs to be trashed and extensive new investigations are needed (both in and out of government):

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[quotes from Rep. Weldon's letter to 9/11 Commission Co-Chairs:

"The impetus for this letter is my extreme disappointment in the recent, and false, claim of the 9/11 commission staff that the commission was never given access to any information on Able Danger," Weldon wrote to former Chairman Gov. Thomas Kean (search) and Vice-Chairman Rep. Lee Hamilton (search). "The 9/11 commission staff received not one but two briefings on Able Danger from former team members, yet did not pursue the matter.

"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," Weldon added.

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'Able Danger' Intel Could Rewrite 9/11 History

Thursday, August 11, 2005

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,165414,00.html

WASHINGTON — The federal commission that probed the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks was told twice about "Able Danger," a military intelligence unit that had identified Mohamed Atta and other hijackers a year before the attacks, a congressman close to the investigation said Wednesday.

Rep. Curt Weldon (search), R-Pa., a champion of integrated intelligence-sharing among U.S. agencies, wrote to the former chairman and vice-chairman of the Sept. 11 commission late Wednesday, telling them that their staff had received two briefings on the military intelligence unit — once in October 2003 and again in July 2004.

Weldon said he was upset by suggestions earlier Wednesday by 9/11 panel members that it had been not been given critical information on Able Danger's capabilities and findings.

"The impetus for this letter is my extreme disappointment in the recent, and false, claim of the 9/11 commission staff that the commission was never given access to any information on Able Danger," Weldon wrote to former Chairman Gov. Thomas Kean (search) and Vice-Chairman Rep. Lee Hamilton (search). "The 9/11 commission staff received not one but two briefings on Able Danger from former team members, yet did not pursue the matter.

"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," Weldon added.

On Wednesday, a source familiar with the Sept. 11 commission — formally known as the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (search) — told FOX News that aides who still had security clearances had gone back to the National Archives outside Washington, D.C., to review notes on Atta and any information the U.S. government had on him and his terror cell before the Sept. 11 attacks.

The source acknowledged that the aides were looking for a memo about a briefing given to four staff members by defense intelligence officials during an overseas trip to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in the fall of 2003.

Staffers apparently did not recall being told of the Able Danger information at that meeting and wanted to double-check their records.

Former commission spokesman Al Felzenberg told The New York Times in Thursday editions that Atta was mentioned to panel investigators during at least one meeting with a military officer. That briefing came in July 2004, less than two weeks before the commission's final report was issued to the public.

Felzenberg said the information about Atta was considered suspect because it didn't jibe with many other findings. For example, the intelligence officer said Atta was in the United States in late 1999, but travel records confirmed that he did not enter the country until late 2000.

"He wasn't brushed off," Felzenberg told The Times about the military officer's briefing. "I'm not aware of anybody being brushed off. The information that he provided us did not mesh with other conclusions that we were drawing."

But Weldon said that argument was not good enough.

"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," Weldon wrote in his letter Wednesday night.

"Therefore it is no small irony," Weldon pointed out, "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."

On Thursday, Weldon told FOX News that the military official, who was under cover when he was in Afghanistan for the October 2003 briefing, is certain he told the staffers about Atta at that time.

The military intelligence officer who attended that meeting with staffers "kept notes of that meeting and will testify under oath that he not only told" the staffers about Able Danger's mission, but about Atta.

Hamilton, a former Democratic congressman from Indiana, told FOX News on Wednesday that if Atta's name had been mentioned in the October 2003 briefing, it would have jumped out at staffers.

He said that the commission did not include the claims by Able Danger in the definitive report of the events leading up to Sept. 11 because it had no "information that the United States government had under surveillance or had any knowledge of Mohamed Atta prior to the attacks.

"It could be a very crucial incident in terms of the lead-up to 9/11. It could reveal flaws in the intelligence sharing or the lack of intelligence that we have not yet focused on," Hamilton said of the military's tracking of Atta and its inability to get domestic intelligence agencies to follow up.

Hamilton told FOX News that the commission team would get to the bottom of the confusion over what the United States knew about Atta and whether it played into the commission's investigation.

"I think the 9/11 commission's obligation at this point is to review our records very, very carefully and make very soon — we hope within the next few days — a complete statement about what happened during our investigation," Hamilton said.

Weldon said that he personally knows five members of the commission and is not attacking the integrity of any of them. He said he discussed the matter with two commissioners who told him they were never briefed about Able Danger.

"I have to ask why. I would hope there was not a deliberate attempt by someone on the 9/11 commission staff to keep this information" from the commissioners, Weldon said, adding "I find no fault right now with the commissioners."

A commission spokesman told FOX News that the panel expected to issue a statement before the end of the week.

Among the most critical facts to be determined, if the information about Atta did exist in 2000, would be who then blocked the intelligence from going to the FBI, which could have tracked down the terror cell.

"Team members believed that the Atta cell in Brooklyn should be subject to closer scrutiny, but somewhere along the food chain of administration bureaucrats and lawyers, a decision was made in late 2000 against passing the information to the FBI," Weldon wrote.

"Fear of tarnishing the commission's legacy cannot be allowed to override the truth. The American people are counting on you not to 'go native' by succumbing to the very temptations your commission was assembled to indict," he added.

[SueRae]

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[Peach]

Why Gorelick created that wall for Clinton:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461567/posts?page=2#2

[CatQuilt]

Somebody ought to send this info to the Jersey Girls. They used to have a web sight. They were media darlings during the election. With info like this they might feel a bit used. Nothing is worse than the wrath of scorned woman. As much as I hate to see Kristin Breitweiser on tv she might just be the one to give this things legs.

LOL! Kristin would only be interested if it vilified President Bush...

[nuffsenuff]

After 9/11, Snell goes on to become Senior Counsel and a team leader for the 9/11 Commission

WHAT!!!!?????????!!!!!

[aposiopetic]

"Team members believed that the Atta cell in Brooklyn should be subject to closer scrutiny, but somewhere along the food chain of administration bureaucrats and lawyers, a decision was made in late 2000 against passing the information to the FBI," Weldon wrote.

Late 2000.

[BARLF]

Dietrich L. Snell

Sr. Counsel & Team Leader

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks/911 commission

[tsmith130]

Felzenberg said the information about Atta was considered suspect because it didn't jibe with many other findings. For example, the intelligence officer said Atta was in the United States in late 1999, but travel records confirmed that he did not enter the country until late 2000.

Hamilton, a former Democratic congressman from Indiana, told FOX News on Wednesday that if Atta's name had been mentioned in the October 2003 briefing, it would have jumped out at staffers.

Maybe I'm not reading this closely enough but don't these two statements contradict each other? The first statement speaks to the information about Atta's travel records. I would presume that means that his name was mentioned in the briefings.

[SueRae]

Thanks Peach! I'll bookmark and read this later.

[Peach]

Oh, and it's worse. He KNEW that jihadists were planning a 9/11 style attack on Washington YEARS ago. And from all accounts, he didn't actually tell anyone.

Peter Lance considers him the clean-up/sanitize guy for the 9/11 Commission.

And what makes me angry, for all the complaining we do about our intelligence agencies failures, how can we say that anymore after hearing about operation Able Danger?

The FBI was watching Atta, but couldn't share the info with anyone because of Gorelick's wall.

The Defense Department through the special operation was watching the mastermind (Atta) and 4 others and couldn't share information with anyone, although they tried.

All because Gorelick built that damn wall to protect Clinton from prosecution.

Why Gorelick created that wall for Clinton:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461567/posts?page=2#2

[nuffsenuff]

Man I wish I knew some reporters and / or people in the FBI...

This is absolutely ridiculous. The 9/11 Commission was a friggin joke... and a cover up operation.

All this and the Berger thing? It's all connected.

[Peach]

Definitely connected. It's all about Clinton's legacy. And the wall was built to keep him from being indicted to begin with. Once he had that in place, he was golden.

[Enchante]

former Atty. General John Ashcroft, testifying to 9/11 Commission:

I believe that the understanding of the wall that was prevalent in the Justice Department and among attorneys was that individuals who shared information from a criminal file or from an intelligence file to a criminal file might be subject to serious discipline. And the memorandum of which I spoke, which was crafted in 1995, specifically indicated that it was based on an understanding at that time held that the law would not countenance certain exchanges. I believe it was a mistaken impression of the law which was later corrected by the rulings of the FISA court of appeals.

But if you look through the history of what happened just in the cases surrounding 9/11, time after time you find individuals being advised by their superiors that they could not or should not be involved in activity because such involvement would breach the wall.

I cited both the Mihdhar and Hazmi cases together with the Moussaoui case, each case where advice was given to individuals who wanted to be more active in their pursuit of individuals, that they should restrain themselves in their pursuits because of the wall.

So it's my clear belief that the wall itself developed this culture which restrained in a substantial way the exchange of information in the intelligence and law enforcement communities.

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