Posted on 08/13/2005 4:42:28 AM PDT by SueRae
WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug 12 - 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.”
let's not go off and start talkng down the only person (Weldon) who has done the most to try and forward this. the problem is that he isn't getting much support.
"she remains protected,eerily, by the wall she created"
There is nothing eerie about it. She set it up to protect the crimes committed by the clintons, and it will work for her too.
Must keep this front and center!
Fox News just did a short story on this, but it was as complete as this posting.
This could get knock the libs and the MSM off of the Judge Roberts attack and put them on defense through the '06 elections with impacts on the '08 elections.
Our new mascot should be a "Dog with a sock".
Ma'am, I love the way you think things through!! Nicely done!
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Hi and thanks. If you or any other freepers find information on when Atta and the other jihadists were first identified after 9/11, could you please ping me?
I think it was the first day. Or the morning of the second.
This is the talking point for the next elction. ALL of the Lib senate and congress knew of this and kept their crooked mouths closed. They are all guilty of murder.
Don't be a silly bugger! They don't want the truth to come out.It would hurt their chances to get re-elected. They would lose all that power, the fawning & sucking up, able to screw with people by siccing various federal agencies after them for being politically incorrect.
Remeber when Ellen Ratner said "I hope George Bush FAILS in Iraq". I wonder how many of our boys she wants to die???
The political class plain & simple.
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What I don't understand is how a commission that should have been under republican control could have allowed this to happen.
If Rush said that, then it's obvious he has started listening to Savage who has been saying this for a decade!!
This has nothing to do with the 9/11 commission, the MSM and every Dim politician covering up for Clinton and themselves. And I'm really sure that the Sandy Bergler thing had nothing to do with this either. Bush is the worse president ever and Clinton did nothing wrong. The mean-spirited, VRWC just hounded him for no reason.
I'm sure I don't need this but >sarcasm
Forget "shame"! IMNSHO, this calls for prison time -- if not a few (preferably public) executions!
It wasn't under Republican control was the problem. It was a 50-50 split in terms of Chairs (Co-Chairs) and membership.
You're right.
I'm starting to wonder what the colonels are thinking.
I'm beginning to wonder if Weldon needs a quality security detail.
It's good stuff.
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