[dts32041]

Do you two better listening on the Internet monitoring this thread listening to tony snow and monitoring his daily thread. True multi tasking, oh yes drinking a cup of coffee.

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You win, but I'm doing mine with a brain tumor, so there.

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Specter: We may have more hearings. Secretary of Defense is coming in to brief us at 4:00 (on something else, I think). With the testimony we've heard today, if the DOD heard info about Atta and a cell, wasn't it a mistake not to turn it over to the FBI?

Dugan: If the info was collectible under rules, they can retain it and disseminate it and that would be lawful.

Specter: SHould it have been disclosed.

Dugan: Yes. If properly collected.

Specter: Was it properly collected.

Dugan: I don't know. I haven't heard from the army. I understand why they aren't testifying.

Specter: Why was the decision made not to retain it.

Dugan: Because the 90 day period had run and hadn't made a collectibility determination within the 90 days.

Specter: Since you're the only rep from DOD, we can only ask you to make a determination whether DOD had info about an AQ cell and Atta. Was there a reason under posse comitatus they couldn't disclose to the FBI and was it a mistake to disclose and perhaps prevent 9/11.

Dugan: Did we have info that id'd Atta. I've heard the testimony here but I don't know.

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Specter: Well, we want you to find out. I understand that you were sent over in a limited capacity with perhaps the calculation that you didn't have this information and if you would undertake the task of finding out the answers, the committee would appreciate it.