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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?
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troubling . . . and the incompetence continues?
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.
?....What does 'Rush' have to say about this?
How long have you got?
= "rebuffed by government lawyers who feared possible legal complications of using military spying techniques to keep tabs on foreign visitors in the United States with legal visas even though they might be terrorists."
Same reason the Janet Reno legal "experts" did not allow Bin Laden to be extradited by the Sudanese government. After the first WTC attack in 1992, I have no doubt that if Reagan were POTUS, we would have found and completely destroyed Bin Laden and his nutty followers before they grew in capabilities. That Clinton did nothing makes him the worst president in US history in my opinion.
Maybe, just maybe, the MSM will quit with the absurd refrain of "It was an Intelligence failure!"
Nah, too much to hope for. But I rest easy knowing that my fellows in the intel world did their jobs well, and had Atta and his swine in their sights. But they were told to back down. Next time the Intel comunity issues a warning, maybe the next Admin will listen...
"The intelligence operatives tried to sound an alarm but were rebuffed by government lawyers..."
Sounds like the whole Clinton administration was a bunch of incompetents! Guess they were mimicking their leader.
Don't forget Jimmy Carter.
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