Posted on 08/22/2005 6:57:09 PM PDT by wagglebee
A second member of an elite military intelligence team has come forward to corroborate claims that the group, code named Able Danger, identified lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta more than a year before the 9/11 attacks.
"Atta was identified by Able Danger in January-February of 2000," Navy Capt. Scott J. Phillpott told Fox News and the New York Times. "I will not discuss the issues outside of my chain of command and the Department of Defense," he insisted. "But my story is consistent . . . I have nothing else to say."
Phillpott's brief but emphatic comments back the statements of Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, who came forward last week to confirm claims by Rep. Curt Weldon that the Able Danger group had identified Atta.
Updating reporters on the Pentagon's own investigation of Able Danger, spokesman Lawrence Di Rita said that material turned over by Phillpott contained no evidence to support the Atta claim.
But additional corroboration for Shaffer and Phillpott's accounts was provided by James D. Smith, a former Defense Department contractor who said he worked on a chart for Able Danger before the 9/11 attacks.
Smith told the New York Times that he kept a copy of the chart, including a photo of Mohamed Atta, on his office wall at Andrews Air Force Base.
Able Danger Ping!!!
/snicker
"Navy Capt. Scott J. Phillpott told Fox News and the New York Times..."
And does the paper with "all the news that's fit to print" have anything to say about this?
Been wondering about that: can't or just won't yet?
My guess is they will bury this on something like page A38.
Well said!
But... but...WHAT DOES JPOD THINK?
/stoned-wall-sarcasm?
Did you see Slade Gordon on O'Reilly calling everybody liars,
and saying gorelick had nothing to do with the walls.
"But... but...WHAT DOES JPOD THINK? "
LMAO....but..but..Jpod said weldon needs to apologize to 9/11 commission!
Able Danger Ping!
Slade Gordon is leading the charge!
I haven't seen much out of the Pod in a while. Maybe he's been relegated.
I did notice that now Lowry is over at the Corner trying his best to bring sanity regarding the Iraqi Constitution.
What about the stuff Sandy BurgLAR stole? Whatever has happened to his case and the stuff he stole?
"Slade Gordon is leading the charge!"
So far we've got Shaffer, Phillpott, Smith, and the National Geographic documentary. If I was Slade, I'd be worried.
And I hope Gordon nails anyone who is involved in this coverup and, for good measure, broadsides Senator Inouye who's trying to squrim out of his previous statements about the Kaka Bill.
I still contend that it was William Jefferson Clinton who chose not to do anything about the danger in our midst prior to 2001 - I will always be of the opinion that he was a narcissistic, lying, adulterating, cowardly piece of garbage - a low-life who connived his way into the high-life of politics and charmed the people (the stupid people) into making him president (i.e., the pied piper) - I lost friends on 9/11 and lay the full blame for their deaths on him and I always will.
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