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Weldon Says Witness Will Tell of Destroying Data About Potential Terrorists
John Batchelor Show.com (from The Congressional Quarterly) ^
| Posted September 09, 2005
| By John M. Donnelly
Posted on 09/10/2005 4:51:51 AM PDT by Perdogg
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09/10/2005 4:51:52 AM PDT
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Perdogg
To: Perdogg
To: Perdogg
Maybe in coming weeks, the Katrina mess will move a little further toward the back of the stove and this situation will gain the attention that it deserves.
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posted on
09/10/2005 4:54:45 AM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(I'm sitting here on the Group W bench)
To: Perdogg
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posted on
09/10/2005 4:56:06 AM PDT
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petercooper
(Mark Levin for Supreme Court Justice.)
To: petercooper
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posted on
09/10/2005 4:57:43 AM PDT
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Perdogg
To: petercooper
The face that launched Sandy Burglar.
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posted on
09/10/2005 5:04:55 AM PDT
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Eric in the Ozarks
(Troubled by NOLA looting ? You ain't seen nothing yet.)
To: petercooper
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posted on
09/10/2005 5:20:31 AM PDT
by
Dark Skies
("The only way to find yourself is in the fires of sorrow." -- Oswald Chambers)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Isn't his sentencing coming up soon?
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09/10/2005 5:22:32 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: Perdogg
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posted on
09/10/2005 5:23:00 AM PDT
by
CarlEOlsoniii
(If one young republican reads my posts and knows he is not alone, I have done my job)
To: Perdogg
Can some insightful Freeper please hypothesize about what was really going on here?
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posted on
09/10/2005 5:25:37 AM PDT
by
zeebee
To: nuconvert
I know they upped his fine from 10K to 50K, but I don't know if that's the end of it.
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posted on
09/10/2005 5:26:55 AM PDT
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Roccus
(Able Danger? What's an Able Danger?)
To: Past Your Eyes
As one 'old fart' to another, I wish I shared your optimism.
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posted on
09/10/2005 5:28:38 AM PDT
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Roccus
(Able Danger? What's an Able Danger?)
To: Perdogg
"...U.S. persons' names."
Notice that they weren't citizens but "persons."
The Clinton swine were protecting the terrorists.
To: texas_mrs
To: Reactionary
The Clinton swine wanted "no mention of trouble with terrorists" Ignore it and let's look good. Well, thank you, that is not the job description of
American president!
To: zeebee
There has been some speculation in the blogosphere that the data miners were TOO good at their work, meaning that in addition to finding links between Islamic terrorists and US citizens, that they also found links between US politicians and foreign nationals, and that those links involved major $ transfers. [Remember Sen. Fred Thompson's trying to connect dots between Clinton campaign fund donations and what appeared to be big foreign spenders w/links to Chinese intelligence services? The mysterious transfer of Loral space technology to China (a major Dem. donor was involved), and China's interest in acquiring control of both the Panama Canal and facilities in the port of Long Beach? This is the kind of stuff that data mining is intended to look at...]
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09/10/2005 6:13:14 AM PDT
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Clioman
To: zeebee
I would say that the bureaucracy in both the FBI and the DoD knew something about this data collection effort that transcended legal boundaries, and they either completed what they needed to find out (unrelated to Atta), or they found out out something they were not supposed to know. For example, perhaps the mining effort was being used against Clinton's political enemies, but instead found out about some Clinton malfeasance. Tinfoil hat off, I don't know.
Regardless, it should be put in the context of then-upcoming 2000 election, not just 9/11 - if this was done late in the year FOLLOWING Bush's win, it will be a very serious charge indeed. This would mean that there a deliberate effort to keep the Bush WH from have access to the material and the science. If it was earlier, I would think it became too hot to handle politically. Note that it was the civilian contractors involved who dictated the data be destroyed; we have still not heard who they were or who they were actually working for - if they reported to the Reno DoJ, the DoD, the CIA, etc. The contractors were not military employees beholden to the nation itself.
So, at this point, while we know it generated info on Atta, we have no clue what else was contained in those 2.5 tetras. It has come to light because of Atta, but my feeling is that he is a merely a symptom, not a cause. This could indeed become a huge scandal if anyone can honestly get to the bottom of it.
I know that Weldon is sincere, but as for 'Magic Bullet' Specter and the others politicos looking into it, I am not hopeful we will ever get to the truth. There are too many powerful people in DC that could be implicated if someone begins asking the right questions. As for the witnesses and hands-on employees, those guys had better be watching their backs; people can get killed for knowing about this sort of thing...
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posted on
09/10/2005 6:18:28 AM PDT
by
Amalie
(FREEDOM had NEVER been another word for nothing left to lose...)
To: Clioman
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09/10/2005 6:20:28 AM PDT
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Balding_Eagle
(God has blessed Republicans with really stupid enemies.)
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