"Col. Shaffer he said he had met with Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone and Lt. Gen. Norton Schwartz, the staff director for outgoing Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Richard B. Myers.
"They knew that this would be the next logical step," Col. Shaffer said, and the officials did not ask him to refrain from going public."
So far, the MSM is doing a nice job spiking this story.
I wonder how much longer they can hold out.
Have you seen this? Interesting...
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NEVER FORGET
CLINTON let BIN LADEN Slip Away and Metastasize
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1467967/posts
NEVER FORGET
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That said. . .I guess the Dems never thought the Repubs would have the 'whatevers' to do precisely this. Some real surprised Demrat players, no doubt.
Anyone notice the national geographic special last night on 9/11 didn't mention klinton til after the Cole bombing?
Why do Congressmen have more balls than Senators?
I kept thinking this fellow soldier wasn't just a cut above stupid! He is a real crackerjack and I'm damned glad he's on our side! We need more true honest and able folks to come forward and start telling us the truth-WE CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH !! I'm like most Americans, I'm sick of the bullshi* we've been fed, and I'm damned sick of the lies we've been told. Thank God for soldiers like Col. Shaffer.
Coverup 101...by 'toons' inept administration....
MULTIPLE SOURCES AVAILABLE:
This is up on Captains Quarters Blog now:
The Washington Times reports that although Col. Tony Shaffer remains the only person connected to Able Danger to willingly part with anonymity, several other sources met with the press on August 8 when the story went public, including members of the AD team. The meetings with reporters came with the explicit blessings of key Congressmen and the "tacit" approval of the Pentagon, Shaffer says:
House Republican leaders approved in advance plans by a military intelligence official to go public with details of a top-secret Pentagon project code-named Able Danger. ...
"I spoke personally to Denny Hastert and to Pete Hoekstra," Col. Shaffer said. Mr. Hastert, Illinois Republican, is speaker of the House, and Mr. Hoekstra, Michigan Republican, is chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
"I was given assurances by [them] that this was the right thing to do. ... I was given assurances we would not suffer any adverse consequences for bringing this to the attention of the public," Col. Shaffer said.
Col. Shaffer said his conversations with Mr. Hastert and Mr. Hoekstra took place before he and members of the Able Danger team spoke as anonymous sources to reporters in the offices of Rep. Curt Weldon, Pennsylvania Republican, on Aug. 8.
This last paragraph gets repeated by Shaun Waterman as fact later in the article, saying that "members of the Able Danger team" joined Shaffer on at least one occasion on August 8. This should change some evaluations of this story. Now we have multiple sources, including people who had their hands on the data, telling reporters what they know about the identification of Mohammed Atta and three other 9/11 hijackers over a year before the attacks. Up to now, the assumption has been that only two sources came forward, one of which (Shaffer) only worked in a liaison capacity.
This explains why the New York Times and other media ran the story despite the anonymous sourcing. It also explains some of the inconsistencies between the first reporting on the story and Shaffer's interviews later. We had all assumed that Shaffer and the Navy captain were the only two original sources for the story. However, the original articles on Able Danger just mention "sources" as a generic term, and if the team members took part in this press conference on August 8th as the Washington Times says, then the information gleaned would have had more detail than Shaffer knew from first-hand experience.
We need to have these witnesses come forward publicly. At the least, we need the Times and other media outlets that participated in this August 8 meeting to confirm the number and nature of these sources, even without their names
FR is not doing a very good job of riding this horse.
This is a much more important story than Sissy Sh*theel. It needs to stay constantly before the blogosphere at least. It'd be nice if even talk readio would hold up its end but it's not.
The major ping list operators need to get on this.
Better for the Pentagon to go slowly and not disclose things that should not be disclosed.
Does anyone know how to contact Col. Shaffer?
E-Mail, snail mail or phone?