Posted on 08/13/2005 8:45:23 AM PDT by george76
9/11 Probers Reject Claims on Lead Hijacker
Investigators for the Sept. 11 commission have found no evidence to support allegations by a House Republican that lead hijacker Mohamed Atta was identified by a classified Pentagon program before the 2001 attacks, according to a commission statement issued last night.
Commission leaders Thomas H. Kean (R) and Lee H. Hamilton (D) said in the joint statement that panel staff members have found no documents or other witnesses to back up claims made by a U.S. Navy officer, who told the commission staff in July 2004 that he recalled seeing Atta's name and photograph on a chart prepared by another officer. Panel officials also said they have found no evidence to support similar claims made to reporters by a second person, a former defense intelligence official.
"None of the documents turned over to the commission mention Mohamed Atta or any of the other future hijackers," the commission statement said. "Nor do any of the staff notes on documents reviewed in the [Defense Department] reading room indicate that Mohamed Atta or any of the other future hijackers were mentioned in any of those documents."
The statement marks the latest development in several days of public skirmishing between the commission and Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), who accused the panel of ignoring allegations that Atta and other hijackers had been identified by Pentagon analysts before the Sept. 11 attacks but that the information had not been shared with other agencies.
..."the commission staff concluded that the officer's account was not sufficiently reliable to warrant revision of the report or further investigation."
The Able Danger program is also not mentioned in the final report because "the operation itself did not turn out to be historically significant," the statement said.
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And the criminals will skate, as usual.
Now's the time for the Pentagon briefers to bring out the tapes of their conversation with the 9/11 staffers they briefed.
>>Rep. Curt Weldon said today on Fox News that there are 15 unexamined boxes of documents(!), and now 11 witnesses(!!), (NOT just 1), who are willing to testify under oath.<<
If this was going to be treated as it should be, as a criminal investigation, what would the next step be? Would Alberto Gonzales appoint a Special Prosecutor?
Yes and we will find out just how American our GOP'ers are.
Okay, all this means is that the Weldon-related documents may be somewhere else at THIS moment in time, it's not like they DON'T exist. Hate to parse here, but this latest rendition lacks credulity.
Nondenial denial
"...there are 15 boxes of information that the 9/11 Commission never looked at with regard to Able Danger?"
Yep, and do you remember when Kean was complaing that the WH was impeding them from obtaining information.. Seems Kean and fellow rats were only interested in obtaining info that wasn't damaging to the Rats.
He was just on Fox and he has said that he only found out 3 months ago that the commission staffers didn't forward the information given to them by the military intelligence officers. He gave a speech on the floor of Congress back in June which got buried...and was eventually picked up by the NY Times.
why do you suppose the NYT ran the story now? I think we can assume they have an agenda.
I'm trying to remember a story about documents. Someone took them home and they were stolen or something like that. Does anyone recall the specifics of that little scenario??
What version is it this week? The traitorous scum still deny responsibility for allowing terrorists to murder Americans.
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