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To: johnny7; Peach; Fedora; Grampa Dave; STARWISE; justshutupandtakeit; Lancey Howard; Howlin; xzins; ..

Good stuff from Weldon -- hope he can shake up DC and the intel agencies enough to accomplish something! I just bought his book. People who think he's doing this as some cheap "book promo" just have it all backwards -- he describes how he's spent many YEARS trying to reform intel agencies working "within the system" and how he tried in 1999 to have the kind of all-agency threat assessment center set up that could have used ABLE DANGER-type software to track all the myriad tidbits that come into different agencies.... INS, CIA, FBI, DIA, etc. each had relevant pieces of info that could have stopped 9/11 or similar plots in the future, but it's so difficult to get the intel bureaucracies to work together well (and Gorelick's 'wall' is only one part of the problem, because the turf battles are legendary).

Anyway, I've just begun reading the book and I don't know how reliable his main source 'Ali' is for all the info on Iran, but Weldon is definitely fighting the good fight, trying hard to improve our intel and counter-terrorism before we have attacks even worse than 9/11.


9 posted on 08/27/2005 8:16:21 PM PDT by Enchante (Kerry's mere nuisances: Marine Barracks '83, WTC '93, Khobar Towers, Embassy Bombs '98, USS Cole!!!)
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To: Enchante

Anyone who has not read the interview Michael Savage had with Col. Schaeffer wrt Able Danger should do so. I am no fan of Savage but this interview was a real service to the Nation.

This is deadly serious stuff more so than anything I can recall in decades.


15 posted on 08/28/2005 1:40:43 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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