Posted on 08/14/2005 1:44:29 AM PDT by smoothsailing
Jack Kelly: Able Danger -- now they tell us
The 9/11 commission report, once much lauded, now has an awfully big hole
Sunday, August 14, 2005
The report of the 9/11 commission, once a best seller and hailed by the news media as the definitive word on the subject, must now be moved to the fiction shelves.
The commission concluded, you'll recall, that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon couldn't have been prevented, and that if there was negligence, it was as much the fault of the Bush administration (for moving slowly on the recommendations of Clinton counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke) as of the Clinton administration.
Able Danger has changed all of that.
Able Danger was a military intelligence unit set up by Special Operations Command in 1999. A year before the 9/11 attacks, Able Danger identified hijack leader Mohamed Atta and the other members of his cell. But Clinton administration officials stopped them -- three times -- from sharing this information with the FBI.
The problem was the order Clinton Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick made forbidding intelligence operatives from sharing information with criminal investigators. (Gorelick later served as a 9/11 commission member.)
"They were stopped because the lawyers at that time in 2000 told them Mohamed Atta had a green card" -- he didn't -- "and they could not go after someone with a green card," said Rep. Curt Weldon, the Pennsylvania Republican who brought the existence of Able Danger to light.
The military spooks knew only that Atta and his confederates had links to al-Qaida. They hadn't unearthed their mission. But if the FBI had kept tabs on them (a big if, given the nature of the FBI at the time), 9/11 almost certainly could have..
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
Sorry, when a 'private' rebuke is reported by msnbc, I'm rather skeptical that it happened at all.
Sandy Burglar was trying to sanitize. What did he destroy and how much worse is it actually?
Perhaps FNC is being threatened with "denial of access"
Has anyone else noticed how FNC is not mentioning sources on the pannel? Anyone else notice how there is to Comment from Gorlick? The answer is because Gorlick IS the source and FNC can't say Gorlick is silent on this.
This story is like the fake guard memos went "no where". Keep pushing folks.
Clinton screwed and people died.
Can this story be condensed to a 2-word headline like the one that Crusty waved in the Senate? ("Bush Knew")
No, I think not.
The fix is in, people. It's a bipartisan coverup.
it seems sandy berger DID sanitize.
The staffers who went to the archives in the last few days finished the job.
WHOSE staffers went? Does anyone have the name of these staffers? The background of the staffers?
Junior Sandy Bergers do not bode well.
Remember folks, the MSM said the claims about the guard documents were just right wing conspiracy theories.
The WH sure didn't dispute the story at the time.
Cheers!
Fox will likely give it more airtime once someone is willing to come forward in Aruba and discuss it.
I do't know what the Commission reported about Atta...But the Senate Intelligence Report dated December 2002 says: Atta and al-Shehhi rented apartments in NY before going to Florida in early July of 2000.
Something is wrong here - having a Green Card makes you immune to action even if you're plotting a terrorist attack? Citizens aren't afforded that right!
Gorelick must have some very damaging material on the Clintons locked away in a safe place for an "insurance policy".
Absolutely right...the press hides these images of people jumping from the trade center (too harsh for our sensibilities don't you know)...these need to be in the face of the sheep who make up the 'moderate center' of this nation. The MSM and the Dems want the sleeping giant to doze off again.
Of course he wasn't "credible." He was a military officer. The Clinton White House generally had nothing but contempt for men in uniform. Congressional Democrats still have that attitude.
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.
I'm surprised the Post Gazette let this story see the light of day even in the OP/ED section.
Yeah...I'd like to see someone take a couple of 8x10 color glossies of those pictures and stick them in Cindy Sheehans face! Ask her if it would be fair to assume that her son died so that this may never happen on our soil again. Instead, she says that her son died for nothing!
It just makes me angry.
Fox News Sunday panel pretty much poo-poo'd the Weldon angle, especially Krauthammer who is usually even-handed...and Weldon crying 'wolf' again with questionable 'data'. I think 'Able-Danger' is so white-hot on both sides of the aisle that Weldon will be tanked and the story buried deep. What else did Able-Danger uncover and who else will it damage?
you might be right
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