Posted on 08/29/2005 3:53:39 AM PDT by johnny7
A copy of the Able Danger chart that identified lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta as a terrorist operating inside the U.S. a year before the 9/11 attacks is clearly visible in a video of a 2002 speech by delivered by Rep. Curt Weldon to the Heritage Foundation.
The Pentagon, the 9/11 Commission and the Senate Intelligence Committee are currently seeking evidence that the bombshell chart, featuring a photo Atta, ever existed - as claimed by three members of the Able Danger team, along with Rep. Weldon. But so far, no physical evidence of the controversial document has surfaced. Until now.
A third of the way through his May 23, 2002 address on data fusion techniques, the video shows Rep. Weldon unfurling a copy of the now missing document and displaying it to the Heritage audience. "This is the unclassified chart that was done by the Special Forces Command briefing center one year before 9/11," he explains. "It is the complete architecture of al Qaeda and pan-Islamic extremism. It gives all the linkages. It gives all the capabilities. . . ." Though Weldon never mentions Able Danger or Atta by name - and the video never zooms in on the chart to the point where Atta's photo is identifiable - it's clear from Weldon comments that the chart is the same one currently being sought.
Since the Able Danger story broke three weeks ago, the Pennsylvania Republican has repeatedly insisted that he gave a copy of the chart shortly after the 9/11 attacks to then-Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley. In the 2002 speech, Weldon told the same story in greater detail, standing beside a copy of what he said he gave Hadley. "I went to the White House. I don't mean to embarrass this guy cause he's a good friend of mine. But I took a mini version of this chart in Nov. [2001] and I turned it over to him - Steve Hadley, who works directly for [then-National Security Advisor] Condi Rice."
Weldon said Hadley was stunned after viewing the Al Qaeda-Atta document. "This is unbelievable - where'd you get this?" he wanted to know. After being told that the chart was prepared by military intelligence a year before the 9/11 attacks, Hadley said, according to Weldon, "I've got to show this to the man" - apparently referring to President Bush.
In the same speech, Rep. Weldon also revealed that then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Hugh Shelton received a briefing on the Able Danger chart in the closing weeks of the Clinton administration.
To view Rep. Weldon's entire 2002 speech to the Heritage Foundation, go to: http://www.heritage.org/Press/Events/2002archive.cfm He displays the al Qaeda-Atta chart approximately 34 minutes into the presentation.
Not really since by the time Bush came in Able Danger was history and his administration was never briefed. Then the RATs delayed confirmations of top terror people and even the FBI chief had just taken over a week before 9/11.
This lies ENTIRELY upon Clinton and was no secret to FReepers. His destruction of National Security was devastating.
Of course the Traitor Media will try and blame Bush but it doesn't wash.
Did you see photos? I didn't. Just an organization chart with boxes and lines. Admittedly, it was at a distance.
Your last sentence is simply not true. This is JUST starting.
How were you able to re-watch that program and will it be aired again?
I saw the chart at a distance. It is enough for me!
Have you viewed the video?
Atta had special skills via his Civil Engineering schooling....structural design, map reading etc. He is the man who could absorb and plot the course of the mission with Usama himself. It's what Atta and Usama had in common.
Atta was "obsessed", a real perfectionist" with an "I can do it better" than the 1993 Tower Dudes.
Wasn't Atta's plane the FIRST to make the "Perfect Hit"...which would not only leave a marker for the second plane but stimulate the others. Because of the "perfection" necessary for the first hit, he HAD to do it.
DC was different. Anyplace in DC in the Capitol Mall area would produce a disaster.
The plane that went down in Pennsylvania was to be the Final Blow. But the terrorists underestimated the "LOVE OF COUNTRY" by the people of the United States. Thank those folks everyday! Thank the fireman, policemen who went INTO the Towers and many other brave folks. ALL SOLDIERS FOR GOD AND COUNTRY!!!
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Even my simple mind would have thought to MAKE A FREAKIN 'COPY' or 2 of the dang chart, even if doing breaks the law. . . Individual CYA supercedes the law.
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Please, read the whole thread or at least the posts #162 and onwards.
I also believe that people working on a project take documents home all the time. Weren't secret documents stolen from some government employee's car in NYC??
From your link to the Washington Monthly:
As for Atta, is it really possible that Weldon put up a gigantic chart in front of a big crowd at a Heritage event for half an hour — along with the passionate claim that our intelligence agencies were completely inept for not acting on this information — but failed to mention that Mohamed Atta, the most famous terrorist of our time, was named on it? Furthermore, that no one at the event happened to notice Atta's name on the chart?
It is hard to disprove a negative. I don't know what was on this chart (Weldon said it was the unclassied version during his presentation), but the fact that two military members of AD and the contractor who supplied the photo state that MA's picture was on the presentation they developed for SOCOM is good enough for me. Anyone who has watched the video understands the context of the chart in Weldon's presentation. He never said it was the same one that was used for SOCOM nor did he go into any great detail on what was on it.
I agree. Unless there is a side to Rice, which I don't believe exists, just working for Stanford shouldn't trigger any anxt. At the time she was not in government. She was an academic who was basically friends with the govenor of a southern state. Besides, as I understand her academic background, she is a soviet studies expert.
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