Posted on 08/16/2005 10:28:31 AM PDT by spycatcher
This guy cannot say for sure this is a non-story, yet he's running around like a headless chicken spouting nonsense about people who know for a fact that there's a story here to some extent and want an investigation into the details!
What a moroon!
Weldon has a book coming out on Able Danger and I suspect he hyped the story to sell his book.
That's nice. Why should we?
Congressman Billybob
Gosh, I hope he's wrong. If he is, I'll feel like Charlie Brown after Lucy pulls the football away for the umpteenth time.
So Weldon pulled a Rather, eh?
Yeah, it's not like the turf defenders in government pound on whistleblowers like cheap cutlets or anything like that.
This is seems to be the common refrain over at NRO, with the possible exception of Andy McCarthy.
This is all going to go down the memory hole just like Atta/Prauge and Janya Davis/OKC, the political class won't dare be exposed.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1464369/posts
did you read the entire article?
you must have missed:
UPDATE: I'm told that Tony Snow recently announced that one of the Able Danger team members will be doing an interview with Catherine Herridge today, and that he (Tony) has a radio interview with the gentleman scheduled for tomorrow. AJ Strata points to a article indicating that Weldon told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity, "I can guarantee you that you will be able to have one on your show. You might want to go with your TV show with this, because it will be a major story. And you can interview him directly."
Weldon's book is irrelevant to the independent facts at hand and the Commission's strange shifting incomplete explanations. It's really just a backhanded smear of Weldon.
CYA Geraghty
So Rummy is dumping cold water on the Able Danger story? Doesn't want his shop to get any of the blame for it? As the man says, we shall see.
"that Able Danger had picked out four of the 9/11 hijackers and recommended they be picked up by the FBI."
It was an open source data mining operation. Without a massive amount of following up and infiltration it could never have led to a $5.00 a week drug dealing operation, let alone an AQ cell.
I would'nt go that far.
We have yet to find out what and why Sandy Berger did his unusual antics to take documents. And we have never heard Jame Gorelick on the stand. 2 things that need to be cleared up imo.
No, it's just some NRO blogger with an ax to grind who's smearing Weldon prematurely for supposedly pulling a Dan Rather.
And yes, Andy McCarthy is an oasis of sanity on NRO now. If he wasn't posting there I'd wonder if Jamie Gorelick had taken over editorial duties.
If there is nothing to this story then why is clinton trying to preempt it by issuing a statement that he woudl have gotten OBL
"No, it's just some NRO blogger with an ax to grind who's smearing Weldon prematurely for supposedly pulling a Dan Rather. "
If this story snowballs and turns into a hugh event, these NRO naysayers will look like idiots...and we will remember their efforts.
I read that part also, and the future tense in that update means that no confirmation yet exists.
I'll be the first to eat my words, though. I'm wrong so much of the time, it's not even painful anymore.
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