He was my beeber, before he got stuned.
Posted on 08/11/2005 5:57:46 PM PDT by TonyInOhio
It behaved disgracefully and in a nakedly partisan fashion, with former officials of the Clinton administration attempting to use the platform to damage the president's reelection chances. Then, after months of ludicrous conduct, out of nowhere came the brilliantly conceived and written report that set a new standard of eloquence and coherence for government documents, became a major bestseller and redeemed the commission's reputation.
Well, that didn't last long.
In a story filed at 7:10 PM, the Associated Press is now confirming all the particulars of what will now forever be called the Able Danger disaster. The 9/11 Commission staff did hear about intelligence-gathering efforts that hit pay dirt on the whereabouts of Mohammed Atta -- in 1999 -- and deliberately chose to omit word of those efforts.
And why? Because to do so might upset the timeline the Commission had established on Atta.
And why is that significant? Because the Mohammed Atta timeline established by the Commission pointedly insisted Atta did not meet with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague.
And why is that significant? Because debunking the Atta-Iraq connection was of vital importance to Democrats, who had become focused almost obsessively on the preposterous notion that there was no relation whatever between Al Qaeda and Iraq -- that Al Qaeda and Iraq might even have been enemies.
I was very skeptical of this Able Danger stuff about Atta, thought it was just sme way Rep. Curt Weldon was trying to sell a book. No longer. This is clearly becoming the biggest story of the summer -- the fact that, as Andy McCarthy alluded to, the "intelligence wall" set up by 9/11 Commissioner Jamie Gorelick when she was in the Justice Department did, in fact, cause the linchpin of the 9/11 attacks to evade capture by American law enforcement.
So was the staff a) protecting the Atta timeline or b) Jamie Gorelick or c) the Clinton administration or d) itself, because it got hold of the information relatively late and the staff was lazy?
More important, what will co-chairmen Tom (pound his fist on the table) Kean and Lee (look sorrowful) Hamilton do and say in the next 36 hours about this calamity?
Clark is a Clintonoid A$$wipe.
I have been racking my brain for an hour, trying to remember who said who was gonna have something hugh come on this fall...
THANKS for reminding me that it was Tony Snow referring to Clinton...
dang memory....sigh
BUT, if this were it...wouldn't Tony have said that this is what he was referring to? I haven't heard him say that.
RFLMAO
Then again....
Wasn't the 9/11 Commission the investigation that was referred to in Senator Rockefeller's leaked Intelligence Committee memo that spoke of stringing along the Republicans for as long as possible before "pulling the trigger" on an investigation, sometime in 2004?
Will this become another self-inflicted wound?
-PJ
Hannity brought up that the commission had been given the audio tape of Clinton giving a speech where he admits to having the Sudan offering Bin Ladin to him, and he passed up the chance..
I seem to remember that the 9/11 Commission dismissed that info like it didn't mean anything!
"I'm betting that not much will come of this."
Something had better come of it. I'm sick and tired of these people covering up for each other.
where did you find that info? Has it been published?
If so, this is absolutely something that Pat Roberts must push for immediately. Schedule it during Robert's hearing and watch the Dems squak.
They'll try and turn it into Dowingstreet, etc. but they won't have uniformed military intelligence on their side.
I think you mean Huge and Serious.
Spell check ping
I am of the firm conviction that if the American people knew the whole story behind 9/11 we'd be calling for public hangings in Washington DC.
He was my beeber, before he got stuned.
Hehehe...
Think Swift Boat Vets.
Buy air time to push the issue.
Only if the new media lets them...
We can't let that happen.
This isn't about partisan advantage, this is about justice. I want justice.
Shirely you can't be series????
We shouldn't overstate Ms. Gorelick's culpability in the Sept. 11 attacks. I think that her raising of the bar on communications between intelligence and law enforcement officials was probably a minor contributor; I suspect that her apparent involvement in the incorrect decision that it was illegal to use special ops troops to go after al Qaeda's leadership, when she was the head attorney for the Department of Defense, was far more significant.
Clinton administration just evicerated any honor from all who sat on the 9/11 Commission, especially Keen and Hamilton. They were in charge. They had subpoena power, they just didn't give a damn about the truth. So they have joined a long line of previously, heretofore honorable people and threw them and their reputation in the sewer. Would you believe Keen or Hamilton about anything they say regarding this investigation. Hell no. And Clinton and his bitch wife continue along their merry way. If Hillary is elected it will be a Bubba redux with more shame and more purlence than when the fat boy was in office
Holy shiite.
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