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Posted on 08/14/2005 5:44:37 PM PDT by linkinpunk
On the phone last week, the former Able Team member I interviewed told a depressing story of that cooperation that never took place.
His story, he says, tells us just how close U.S. officials could have come to breaking up the 9/11 plot before it unfolded. But there was one problem: The U.S. government did not want to hear what this sleuth and his 10 teammates had to say - before and even after the 9/11 plot.
By mid-2000, the Able Danger team knew it had important information about a possible terrorist plot. Because of a peculiar series of computer links that went through Brooklyn, the team began referring to the four future hijackers as the "Brooklyn cell." Their movements and communications were raising too many suspicions.
The Able Danger sleuth, whose interview with me was arranged by the staff of Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., asked that his name not be revealed so he could maintain his top-secret counter-terror role. He emerged from the shadows of spying and intelligence analysis last week because he wanted to set the record straight.
One of his targets is the 9/11 commission. The commission's staff, he says, ignored him when he approached them on two occasions to spell out Able Danger's work.
Another target are Pentagon lawyers. The sleuth says he and other Able Danger team members became so concerned during the summer of 2000 that they asked their superiors in the Pentagon's special operations command for permission to approach the FBI. Their superiors approached Pentagon legal experts. Those experts turned down the request.
Is silence a form of incompetence or it is just the way things are?
Posted here too:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1463226/posts
About half of the American electorate thinks Clinton was the greatest. Given the fact that the MSM doesn't report anything except slanted news, that's not surprising. The American public is asleep.
troubling . . . and the incompetence continues?
"The Onion" prints more facts than the MSM.
First we had incompetent law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Now we have an incompetent 9/11 Commission. Some people need their butts kicked, if we are to survive.
your link doesnt go to that site, it comes back to this thread
Hillary in the Senate? Maybe she is there to block any real plan to expose her husband's dirty deeds. Something makes us think this is conflict of interest. How can someone objectively investigate a spouse?
?....What does 'Rush' have to say about this?
This story seems to have legs.
How long have you got?
Kerry Spot has some insight as well.
....But JPod is a Weenie.
"WE MAY OWE THEM A BIG APOLOGY (And other selections from NRO RE: Able Danger)"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1463397/posts?page=1
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