Posted on 08/22/2005 9:33:38 PM PDT by mercy
Sticking to, but not penetrating, the wall
The New York Times reports that "an active-duty Navy captain has become the second military officer to come forward publicly to say that a secret defense intelligence program tagged the ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks as a possible terrorist more than a year before the attacks." According to the officer, Captain Scott Phillpot, "Atta was identified by Able Danger by January-February of 2000." Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer went public with this story last week, stating that analysts in the Able Danger project had been overruled by military lawyers, pursuant to the "wall" erected by the Clinton administration, when they tried to share the program's findings with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2000 in hope of tracking down terror suspects tied to Al Qaeda.
In addition, James Smith, a former employee of a defense contractor, says he helped create a chart in 2000 for the Able Danger program that included Mr. Atta's photograph and name. According to Smith, Atta's name and photograph were obtained through a private researcher in California who was paid to gather the information from contacts in the Middle East. Smith says he retained a copy of the chart for some time, posting it on his office wall at Andrews Air Force Base. Ironically, considering the apparent role of the Clinton administration's wall in this story, Smith recalls that the chart became stuck to his wall at the air base, and was impossible to remove when he switched jobs.
The Defense Department is still saying that it's been unable to validate the assertions made by Lt. Col. Shaffer, and now backed up by Captain Phillpott and Mr. Smith, about the early identification of Mr. Atta.
Hannity hit it pretty hard today if not with all relevant facts.
Katherine Herridge's report just now on FOX was longer and more detailed then ever. Dirctly countering recent Omission Commission members CYA efforts.
Excellent ping. Thank you.
Excellent ping. Thank you.
Medved lives in Washington, as does Gorton. I've got a hunch that friendship has something to do with it. For my part, I have always thought Gorton was a simp.
If German intelligence had both Atta and Benalshib, the Hamburg roomates, on their terrorist watch list prior to 9/11, and the German intelligence warned their Spanish counterparts that Benalshib would be visiting Taragona in July 2001, where he met with Atta, what was the CIA and FBI doing? Both were allowed into the USA without a problem in the days after that meeting and prior to 9/11. It would seem that foreign intelligence services knew a lot about the 9/11 terrorists. Is Gorton satisfied that his staff did all it could to comprehend the missed opportunities and intelligence failures vis-a-vis the US relationship with European agencies?
You can if the cop - let's just call him "Slick Willie" - insists on ignoring the known assassin so that he can just keep munching his doughnuts. Slick Willie is not guilty of the same crime as Atta, but he's guilty of malfeasance, beyond a shadow of a doubt.
He doesn't give a flyin frak! CYA is what matters.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1469114/posts
which I think is a topic of paramount importance. Please see my post #64 which is a paste of Bryan Preston's comments from Michelle malkin's blog.
Chilling
I agree, Bush has been far too protective of Clinton.
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