Posted on 08/12/2005 8:32:13 PM PDT by doug from upland
STATEMENT BY CONGRESSMAN CURT WELDON REGARDING THE OMMISSION OF ABLE DANGER FROM THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (12 Aug. 2005) - Today Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA), Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security Committees, released the following response to a statement by the former 9/11 Commission regarding the ABLE DANGER operation.
"ABLE DANGER was about linkages and associations of individuals identified with direct links to Al-Qaeda and not about dates and times.
To clarify, ABLE DANGER was a Department of Defense planning effort, tasked to Special Operations Command (SOCOM) by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). The task assigned to ABLE DANGER was to identify and target Al-Qaeda on a global basis and, through the use of cutting edge technology (data-mining, massive parallel processing, neural networking and human factors analysis) and enhanced visualization and display tools, present options for leaders (national command authority) to manipulate, degrade or destroy the global Al-Qaeda infrastructure.
The 9/11 Commission has released multiple statements over the past week, each of which has significantly changed - from initially denying ever being briefed to acknowledging being briefed on both operation ABLE DANGER and Mohammed Atta. The information was omitted primarily because they found it to be suspect despite having been briefed on it two times by two different military officers on active duty. Additionally, the 9/11 Commission also received documents from the Department of Defense on ABLE DANGER.
Despite their varied statements, two critical questions remain unanswered.
1) Why did the Department of Defense fail to pass critical information obtained through ABLE DANGER to the FBI between the summer and fall of 2000?
2) Why did the 9/11 Commission staff fail to properly follow-up on the three separate occasions when they received information on ABLE DANGER and Mohammed Atta?
I will continue to push for a full accounting of the historical record so that we may preclude these types of failures from happening again."
Jamie Gorelick
Bravo, Congressman.
I really like this guy...is he "Presidential" material...or has his patriotism smeared his ability to run?
Does he have a chance at the White House?
Jamie Gorelick...
among other Clintonistas like Barbara Bodine, who impeded the investigation of the USS Cole in Yemen and forced John O'Neill from the investigation.
If he lives long enough.
bttt
Thank God for Weldon, but I don't hear any other politicians speaking out. This should be front page news, and yet it is not. What's your take on it, dfu?
Thanks for posting. BTTT.
It seems that the 9/11 Commission made its own time-line with Jamie Gorelick being the one who probably was the architect...
and then, when they were told about Able Danger, and their findings, and their findings didn't square with the time-line that Gorelick and friends constructed...
Trash can, shredder, baby----we didn't need that information anyway!
And the whole time, Gorelick has sweat stains down to her waistband, hoping they would be duped---and they were.
we will have to see how this plays out. at the very least , if this is what alot of people think it is , he will set a tone. they will try to stop this , they could look like fools. hamilton and kean now claim ,oh ya atta. but we never heard about the other 3
.blah blah blah . it won't work. if there is anything going on , the demand will be unstopable.
The district actually went for Gore in 2000 and Weldon is a moderate Republican. The man, however, has guts. God bless him for keeping this important news story going.
Good job by Weldon -- now we've got to get lots and lots of people to keep the pressure on.
fwiw, here's why I think Jamie Gorelick will likely turn out to have fingerprints ALL OVER the scandals of (1) the original failures to pursue Atta and his cell, and (2) the insane refusal of the 9/11 Commission to properly investigate these matters:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1462429/posts?page=22#22
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1462140/posts?page=86#86
All right Doug!
BTT
Very good question, and FR is the finest vetter non pareil. We should see where he can go.
I heard that hugh is back on monday.Get ready for a whole new line of attack. i can't believe he won't be all over this.
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