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THE 9/11 COMMISSION IN MORTAL DANGER
The Corner on National Review Online ^ | 08/11/05 | John Podhoretz

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?


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911commission; abledanger; atta; attagate; berger; clarke; clintonlegacy; coverup; gorelick; podhoretz; rockefellermemo; sandyberger; treason
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To: montag813; TonyInOhio; All
Even the goverment's cooperative star WoldCom witness got 5 years in the slammer today. If Berger does not get at least that much, both Bush and Gonzalez should be impeached. ----

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Agreed!

What about Gorelick........... 'Lady Ultimate Functionary'?

541 posted on 08/12/2005 2:22:02 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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To: Bahbah

Yeah, let us ask Michael Moore for his documentary on this, whaddaya think?


542 posted on 08/12/2005 2:24:02 AM PDT by Terridan (God help us send these Islamic Extremist savages back into Hell where they belong...)
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To: montag813

Great post!


543 posted on 08/12/2005 2:24:38 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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To: Laverne

"Her Heinous"


AHHHHHHHHAAAAAHHHHHHAHHHAAAAA,
I know, its late, your post was great, but this was precious!


544 posted on 08/12/2005 2:28:11 AM PDT by Terridan (God help us send these Islamic Extremist savages back into Hell where they belong...)
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To: popdonnelly

"The commission staff dismissed that report, saying a bank video camera in Florida pictured Atta withdrawing money five days prior to the supposed meeting in Czech Republic, and that records show Atta's cell phone was in use in Florida on the very date that Czech intelligence put him in Prague. "We do not believe that such a meeting occurred," the staff said."

http://www.factcheck.org/article203.html


545 posted on 08/12/2005 2:28:21 AM PDT by GoLightly
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To: concerned about politics
"Was there a deliberate attempt by 9/11 staffers to keep this info secret?"

No one will ever convince me that a few of those "commissioners" were not told. They are all PROFESSIONAL LIARS AND COVERUP ARTISTS.

546 posted on 08/12/2005 2:30:02 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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To: JediForce

I wish Sec. Rumsfeld would chime in on this one... Really, he along with THE ENTIRE MILITARY STATIONED OVERSEAS SHOULD CHIME IN ON THIS ONE....
Great post.


547 posted on 08/12/2005 2:30:12 AM PDT by Terridan (God help us send these Islamic Extremist savages back into Hell where they belong...)
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To: PhiKapMom

Beautiful... please, pass this on forever... great post!!!!
I will certainly pass this along!!!


548 posted on 08/12/2005 2:31:55 AM PDT by Terridan (God help us send these Islamic Extremist savages back into Hell where they belong...)
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To: Nita Nupress
Thanks.......... Weldon is a very good man. He is righteously indignant.

And for all those who may question Michael Savage from time to time, he's been ON FIRE the past two nights on this subject.

This story MUST NOT go away!

549 posted on 08/12/2005 2:34:41 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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To: Txsleuth
I heard Weldon on a talk show this morning...and he was asked how far the Republicans in the Congress would be willing to go with this..

Tarleton's Quarter! I wanna see blood.

550 posted on 08/12/2005 2:35:15 AM PDT by GoLightly
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To: jimbo123

Fox is still interviewing or rebroadcasting debate on the Sheehan story... unbelievable, God bless her son but we are at war. I am praying very much.


551 posted on 08/12/2005 2:36:20 AM PDT by Terridan (God help us send these Islamic Extremist savages back into Hell where they belong...)
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To: PhiKapMom

"Just get the feeling everything is tied together from the Clinton era."

Ditto! bingo! Aka, the Clinton error.


552 posted on 08/12/2005 2:39:01 AM PDT by SeaBiscuit (God Bless all who defend America and Friends, the rest can go to hell.)
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To: Grampa Dave; Alas Babylon!; Stellar Dendrite; PhiKapMom; jonrick46
Lets add one more question here. Why was this wall erected by Gorelicker, and who paid for that wall?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461458/posts

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553 posted on 08/12/2005 2:40:02 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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To: JDoutrider

I thought treason was punishable by death? Firing squad?


554 posted on 08/12/2005 2:42:23 AM PDT by Terridan (God help us send these Islamic Extremist savages back into Hell where they belong...)
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To: doug from upland

Thanks for post 519.


555 posted on 08/12/2005 2:44:53 AM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: GoLightly; Txsleuth
I heard Weldon on a talk show this morning...and he was asked how far the Republicans in the Congress would be willing to go with this..

Tarleton's Quarter! I wanna see blood.

Not to be the eternal pessimist, but we are talking about the very same Republicans whose FBI files are in the hands of Hillary Clinton.  They'll stomp and bloviate a few days, then this too will fall off the surface of the planet. I hope I'm wrong, but "hope" is a 4-letter word to me when it concerns those spineless blankety-blanks.

556 posted on 08/12/2005 2:45:51 AM PDT by Nita Nupress
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To: STARWISE

..."BRING BACK JOHN ASHCROFT TO QUESTION HER AND LAY BARE HER MANIPULATIONS, CONNIVING, COVERUP AND SINS TO THE WORLD."...

One can only hope that somebody big will be called in to take care of this and do so properly to keep the President and his cabinet focused on the war.


557 posted on 08/12/2005 2:46:47 AM PDT by Terridan (God help us send these Islamic Extremist savages back into Hell where they belong...)
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To: Peach; Mo1
Peach I don't know why people are doubting Weldon...he is a screwd politican he has the facts to back him up....or he wouldn't be claiming this.

Mo isn't Weldon from your area?

558 posted on 08/12/2005 2:46:59 AM PDT by Dog
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To: jimbo123

Hopefully, this will end Hildebeasts reign on New York.


559 posted on 08/12/2005 2:48:17 AM PDT by Terridan (God help us send these Islamic Extremist savages back into Hell where they belong...)
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To: Nita Nupress
Not to be the eternal pessimist, but we are talking about the very same Republicans whose FBI files are in the hands of Hillary Clinton.

If this was popping in the Senate, I'd prolly be as pessimistic as you are. The House is a little bit different animal.

560 posted on 08/12/2005 3:25:41 AM PDT by GoLightly
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