9/11 PANEL: ATTA TALE WAS BUM TIP

NY Post ^ | 8/13/05 | DEBORAH ORIN

[jimbo123]

The 9/11 commission yesterday defended its decision to ignore a Navy officer's report that military spies targeted lead hijacker Mohamed Atta more than a year before the attacks — and claimed the Navy man wasn't "sufficiently credible."

The statement from commission chiefs Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton came after a flip-flop, in which the panel's staff first denied and then admitted it was told Pentagon spies had linked Atta to an al Qaeda cell in New York in 2000.

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"The commission's staff concluded that the officer's account was not sufficiently reliable to warrant revision of the report or further investigation."

A skeptical Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) said the statement does nothing to answer why the Able Danger warning wasn't passed on to the FBI.

[rolling_stone]

What else is the commission covering up?

More magic bullets....

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
My opinion is that W is doing anything he can to stave off a civil war while we deal with the global WOT, the invasion from the Third World and the attempts by the DemocRATs to bring him down.

Trying to juggle too many balls may just be impossible.

Michael Frazier

[FReethesheeples]

;^)

[SeaBiscuit]

Thanks for the ping.

"This in turn may lead to other higher up Clinton Administration officials being revealed as complicit or culpable under discovery, deposition and courtroom testimony."

Sadly, for that reason I tend to think this may become just another in the long list of Clinton & Co.'s eerie and alarming ability in dodging the bullets they sorely deserve. And yet I find myself still hanging on to the hope that someday justice will be served.

[iconoclast]

This website has an extensive timeline. It seems to lean somewhat anti-Administration, but it has a wealth of data.

Uh, doesn't the buck usually stops at the administration in charge?

[Chaguito]

There comes a point where it is impossible to distinguish between incompetence and malice.

[iconoclast]

They could have taken action in 2000, and they didn't do it.

And, Bush could have done something about it in 2001, yada yada.

Did he clean house ... hell no .... in fact he kept a number of the "old hands" on!

What do elections mean? Anything?

[iconoclast]

And didn't a Colleen somebody from the FBI testify to the 9/11 Commission that they'd been watching them and were receiving reports from flight schools that the guys only wanted to learn to fly, not land?

Didn't Colleen get transferred to Anchorage or something for her trouble?

[iconoclast]

There a guy on C-Span2 right now pointing out that little has changed since 9/11 and, generally speaking, PC nonsense rules.

[Dawgreg]

Think anything will come of it? I doubt it, but I'm praying. This outrage should be on the front burner and not let go of until the Clinton administrations' band of totally inept minions AND the Clinton's are made to explain just what in the hell were they thinking!!!!! The Demonrats are STILL trying to protect the terrorists to this day. What's it gonna take, people??

[Sacajaweau]

Bubba was absolutely flip about Mr. Burglar. I found it quite inappropriate....like what a kid does to hide something from "Mom". There was nothing humorous about Berger's, bungled, burglary.

[hershey]

The whole thing smells to high heaven. Now if the families of 9/11 victims could sue Sandy Burglar, Clinton, the whole gang, Jamie G., and get punitive damages, that might persuade somebody to talk.

[iconoclast]

The Demonrats are STILL trying to protect the terrorists to this day. What's it gonna take, people??

Golly, I dunno.

We've elected a Republican House, Senate, and President and these damned Democrats still have the country screwed up. Beats all, don't it?

[AmishDude]

Ashcroft was actually sworn in on Feb. 2, 2001. But you are right, it was a contentious hearing and the Democrats threatened to filibuster it. There were 42 no votes.

[AmishDude]

I don't think there was any quid pro quo. In fact, the WH recognized that it was a political event and were just happy when it didn't degenerate into a food fight. Nobody expected the hearings to produce anything useful.

[Dawgreg]

LOL! You said it!

[indthkr]

"...but he didnt have the top top clearances that Sandy had..(and will have again just in time for Hillarys WH campaign)."

The fact that there is any chance that Berger will get his clearances back for destroying Archives documents boggles the mind. If some rank-and-file government employee had done the same thing, they would lock'em up and throw away the key.

[Enchante]

Yeah, and Gorelick's little whitewash op-ed was thoroughly refuted within a matter of days, as I recall. The issue was not the existence of the 1978 FISA law (though in itself that law was too restrictive for counter-terrorism cases), but that the Gorelick/Reno regime had shackled the FBI with much tighter restrictions than even that law required. Gorelick's own memo noted that she was doing "more than the law requires" and the most experienced prosecutor of terrorists in the USA at that time, Mary Jo White in NYC, protested (June 13, 1995) that Gorelick's wall would hinder work on counter-terrorism cases. Gorelick is GUILTY as charged.

[Enchante]

"(9:59 a.m.): Clarke Told Some Hijackers Have al-Qaeda Connections"

Wonderful, the CIA, FBI, and NSC knew within the first hour of 9/11 that they had blown it big-time. Then the task was for people like Clarke, Gorelick, and Ben Veniste to make sure that blame would fall primarily upon the Bush administration, which had only been in office a few months and had only had a lot of its 'team' (such as key Pentagon appointments held up by a-hole Senator Levin) in place for a matter of weeks. Meanwhile, the 9/11 Commission, with the inside help of Gorelick-Snell-Ben Veniste, makes sure there is no significant focus upon failures of the 8 YEARS that the Clintonlites had to work on these issues, while Clarke and the MSM create a hyper-partisan atmosphere against Rice, Bush, Cheney, et al. Much hype is wasted upon the nearly meaningless PDB of August 6, 2001 -- the MSM acts as though Bush should have.... done WHAT, exactly? Ordered extra scrutiny of all Arab/Muslim males trying to board commercial airliners??? Hell, we can't do that even AFTER 9/11..... but just be sure that no attention is given to Gorelick's wall, 8 years of Clintonlite inaction, Clarke's inability to get Clinton-Gore-Berger to take terrorism seriously, etc. etc.

[johnny7]

Yeah, and Gorelick's little whitewash op-ed was thoroughly refuted within a matter of days, as I recall.

Well... it WAS refuted here, and on talk-radio but only a few sentences on FOXNews. The MSM was silent.

No Republicans demanded her resignation from the 9/11 Committee. I called and emailed Kean & Hamilton 5 times... to make her a witness and not keep her on as a member. I never got the courtesy of a reply.

While I commend Weldon on his diligence... he's the only one doing the talking.