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.

[Mia T]

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Why hillary clinton should never be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office... or any position of power--THE SERIES
REASON 1: MISSUS CLINTON HIRED JAMIE GORELICK

 

 

[Brilliant]

It wasn't credible because the National Archive documents which they said would corraborate the Able Danger findings were mysteriously missing.

[tarheelswamprat]

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

Commissioner Tom Kean also added, "As I said before, people need to mind their own business.

[petitfour]

Where in the Pentagon did the Able Danger folks work?

[petitfour]

I don't remember the criticism of Ashcroft by the President. Could you refresh my memory?

[petitfour]

But not the FBI? Or State Department?

Incredible.

[antonico]

Here's something to ponder: "The Gorelick Wall" went into effect in mid-June of 1995. Does anyone else think the timing of it's origin is more then a little suspicious, since it was less than 2 months after The Oklahoma City Bombing? And wasn't it Jayna Davis that did yeoman's work in trying to tell us all that there was a Middle Eastern Connection to that event? I might be off base, but it sure seems like this could tbe what "smells" about this whole "Gorelick Wall" startegy of the Clinton Administration.

[TomGuy]

Here, under

9/11 commission
finishes Bush, Cheney session

Bush chastises Ashcroft
in private statements
at the White House

NBC, MSNBC and news services

Updated: 7:27 p.m. ET April 29, 2004

"Ashcroft, Justice rebuked"

In opening remarks before commissioners began their inquiry, Bush told commission members he was disappointed with the Justice Department and its treatment of Jamie Gorelick, a commission member and a former Justice Department official.

NBC's David Gregory reported that Bush specifically criticized Attorney General John Ashcroft in connection with Gorelick's treatment. The president told commissioners he did not approve of the “fingerpointing.”

On Wednesday the Justice Department released internal documents on its official Web site; critics of Gorelick have said the documents raise questions about her serving on the commission. Despite the White House's admonishment of Justice, NBC's Pete Williams reported Thursday that the memos remain on the Justice Department's Web site.

Some Republican senators have argued that the commission's work won't be done until they interview Gorelick, whom they accuse of authorizing the “wall” between intelligence and law enforcement agencies some have said may have contributed to a climate that made the Sept. 11 attacks possible.

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And see Bryon York article of May 7, 2004

Ashcroft Helps Bush, Bush Hits Ashcroft
The 9/11 Commission makes for strange politics inside the administration.

[TXnMA]

...it's origin is more then a little suspicious, since it was less than 2 months after The Oklahoma City Bombing...

Now you're getting somewhere!

That -- and Gorelick's control over the FBI re OKC -- sheds considerable light on what we who independently investigated OKC documented as (31 pages of) "Government Improprieties". (OKBIC: Final Report)

[Peach]

Good job and do I ever agree with you, Mia T. 100%

[Peach]

Thanks for remembering that about the stewardesses, mike. Great memory.

[Peach]

Thanks, TomGuy. Someone will find a newspaper article printed on 9/12 which mentions Atta and others, I'll bet.

[Peach]

If anyone has not read Jayna Davis's book The Third Terrorist, I recommend it highly.

CIA Director James Woolsey has said of that book and Jayna's research that when the truth is known about OKC, the world will owe her a debt of gratitude.

[petitfour]

Thanks. I had forgotten this.

[cwb]

"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."

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The very fact that Atta was responsible for 9/11 means that what this man was claiming was indeed, very credible. What's incredible, are those who ignored it...and a Commission that finds it insufficient. These people are a fraud.

[johnny7]

“At last week's hearing, Attorney General John Ashcroft, facing criticism, asserted that "the single greatest structural cause for September 11 was the wall that segregated criminal investigators and intelligence agents" and that I built that wall through a March 1995 memo. This is simply not true.

First, I did not invent the "wall," which is not a wall but a set of procedures implementing a 1978 statute (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA) and federal court decisions interpreting it. In a nutshell, that law, as the courts read it, said intelligence investigators could conduct electronic surveillance in the United States against foreign targets under a more lenient standard than is required in ordinary criminal cases, but only if the "primary purpose" of the surveillance were foreign intelligence rather than a criminal prosecution.”

-Jamie GORElick, Washington Post 4/2004

[Stellar Dendrite]

Wow, thanks for that story. Bush has a lot of criticism for the wrong people, huh? The minutemen are "vigilantes" and we were told to stop criticizing Gonzales when we thought he might be the next SCOTUS nominee....

[True Capitalist]

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[cookcounty]

"......the Navy man wasn't "sufficiently credible."

...Unlike the rock solid CIA who would like you to know that the WMD screw-up was their only problem, and that they did the absolute best they could and the Gorelick wall really wasn't a problem because the FBI is worthless anyway.

And Thomas Keane and Lee Hamilton believe this..............

[Stellar Dendrite]

Firings? Nah....this calls for something a little more severe.