I agree. This story has had me rattled from the beginning. If security is the concern with this, then Rep. Weldon would not have spoken publicly about this would he? If he did know and he spoke publicly anyway, isn't that unAmerican? So much of this is hard to fathom.
But I keep going back to the fact that the identity of the hijackers were known so soon after the 9-11 attacks.
Well .. the hijackers didn't hide their identity on 9/11 - which made them easy to trace since we already had been watching these guys .. but evidently we weren't watching them close enough.
And .. with Gorelick calling Weldon's office and saying, "I didn't do anything wrong", when Weldon had not accused her of doing anything wrong .. well .. that has me rattled.
What if allowing testimony before the Congress would lead to revealing more information that the Pentagon feels is best for the national security interest?
What if those contacts were an involved network that currently allows us to find out about threats BEFORE they happen and then to prevent them happening?
I tend to trust Rumsfeld if he is saying no. He is not trying to protect Clinton - it would be to protect his confidential assets that are in play now for our security. Once the Congress gets access, the contacts are blown and we know we have subversives in our Congress.
And, these people involved in revealing this information - know this too. If they were involved, they have to know that Atta was not the only one - there would be more that may be currently under surveillance.