would ever find fault with their golden boy, Clinton.
Posted on 08/23/2005 8:01:30 AM PDT by pabianice
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 - An active-duty Navy captain has become the second military officer to come forward publicly to say that a secret intelligence program tagged the ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks as a possible terrorist more than a year before the attacks.
The officer, Scott J. Phillpott, said in a statement on Monday that he could not discuss details of the military program, which was called Able Danger, but confirmed that its analysts had identified the Sept. 11 ringleader, Mohamed Atta, by name by early 2000. "My story is consistent," said Captain Phillpott, who managed the program for the Pentagon's Special Operations Command. "Atta was identified by Able Danger by January-February of 2000."
His comments came on the same day that the Pentagon's chief spokesman, Lawrence Di Rita, told reporters that the Defense Department had been unable to validate the assertions made by an Army intelligence veteran, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, and now backed up by Captain Phillpott, about the early identification of Mr. Atta.
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would ever find fault with their golden boy, Clinton.
I think I may have just heard "the other shoe being dropped!" This thing is now getting some real legs and I imagine the sh** is fixin' to hit the fan!
Does anyone really think that the Clinton Administration didn't know what was coming down the pike? Looking at evidence, past and present, it sure looks like they staved off a 9/11-like attack with as little effort as possible, while knowing the results of their ineptitude would happen on someone else's watch.
I wish I had more faith that this situation has "legs." I just don't see anything coming of it that's going to place the blame squarely where it belongs once and for all. Anyone you care to name in this mess is a liar, and the others will swear to their lies. (Geeze! I sound like a crazed Bush-basher, LOL!)
And talk about bad timing! Isn't there to be a movie released soon about the 9/11 Commission? Anyone? Thought I heard an ad for it the other day.
Our paper in southwest Ohio the 'Cincinnati Enquirer' carried the NY Times story today ... however, it was buried on page 6A.
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