Posted on 08/15/2005 8:04:11 AM PDT by JediForce
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PASS THIS ON.
JEDI.
PLease post the transcript when you can.
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I would have...but the system would not let me....more than 300 words and to edit it would wipe out the most important parts....transcript is available at CNN.com...CNNTV..click late edition from sunday....transcript is near the bottom left....this interview is near the bottom of the page...
Sorry....didn't have time to argue with the computer....had to get this out though...
JEDI.
yes...your link goes to CNN's mainpage...nothing here to see or work with.
Curt Weldon was on Fox News on Saturday and basically laid it all out. 3 times in September 2000 Sr Military intelligence officers attempted to pass information to the Justice Department/FBI specificially about Mohammed Atta and they essentially wouldn't accept the information. He (Weldon) also said that he had been trying since 1998 to get the President to approve a project he worked on to allow more open sharing between agencies. CLinton had 2 years to sign it and didn't. He said it was finally signed by President Bush in January 2001. What does that mean? Within 10 days of taking office President Bush started cleaning up the messes from his predecessor AND tried to make out country safer.
I am now holding my breath, and turning blue, for the MSM to start pointing out this quick action on Bushes part.
Your link goes to he main CNN site, and I don't see an article about it.
Has Cohen not to take this bullet for Clinton?
Fine, there'll be a time when the American people want this story covered, maybe we'll have FRTV up & running by then.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0508/14/le.01.html
BLITZER: Do you know anything about this? You were the defense secretary.
COHEN: I'm not aware of any such identification of Mohammed Atta.
I would say that if they did have this special report that we have to consider that it was before 9/11. And before 9/11 we had a lot of restrictions imposed by law upon the Pentagon, the executive branch, in terms of sharing information on people who were in this country. So that changed after 9/11.
But prior to that time, we -- I'll give you one example. Back in 1997, 1998 the Joint Chiefs of Staff wanted to propose that we create a special command for the United States to deal with this emerging scourge of terrorism. And right away it was shot down saying this violates (inaudible) you're now going to get the military involved in domestic law enforcement.
And so there were a number of restrictions that may very well have been a comment or recommendation coming out of a lawyer to someone in the Pentagon. I was not aware of it, but it's altogether possible.
BLITZER: Did you know about this unit called Able Danger, these special operations forces that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Hugh Shelton, had created?
COHEN: I'm not -- I don't have a recollection specifically of that.
I certainly know that there were a number of special forces that were set up to gather information. I don't recall receiving that particular report, though.
BLITZER: But you do recall that there were prohibitions on the U.S. military informing the FBI of potential threats out there? Because that sounds pretty outrageous to the average person out there.
COHEN: I'm not sure there was a prohibition against that. All I'm saying -- there were a number of prohibitions in terms of what information the CIA could share with the FBI and the FBI with the CIA, what the Pentagon could do, what our military could do in terms of enforcing or using military forces to protect the country domestically.
All that has been changed now by 9/11, but prior to that there were a number of restrictions. This may have been one of them. I'm not familiar with it.
BLITZER: All right, we'll have to leave it there. Secretary Cohen and Secretary Kissinger, always good to have both of you on "LATE EDITION." Thanks very much for joining us.
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BLITZER: Did you know about this unit called Able Danger, these special operations forces that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Hugh Shelton, had created?
COHEN: I'm not -- I don't have a recollection specifically of that.
With all due respect, this doesn't look like he's admitting anything.
Agreed. But as Sec of Defense shouldn't he have known about something like this? Shouldn't this have been brought to the attention of the Sec of Defense if they were having problems getting people to listen?
More obfuscation...
A lot of double talk. Admitting it without admitting it.
BLITZER: Did you know about this unit called Able Danger, these special operations forces that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Hugh Shelton, had created?
COHEN: I'm not -- I don't have a recollection specifically of that.
I certainly know that there were a number of special forces that were set up to gather information. I don't recall receiving that particular report, though.
Cohen is worthless.
And yet, I've had some naysayers on FR tell me that President Bush did nothing to change the Wall. Well isn't this interesting.
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