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Specter: Pentagon may be obstructing committee
CNN ^ | September 21, 2005 | unattributed

Posted on 09/21/2005 1:37:31 PM PDT by YaYa123

Specter: Pentagon may be obstructing committee Officials ordered witnesses not to testify about secret program.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Department of Defense "ordered five key witnesses not to testify" about a secret Pentagon unit that some claim identified several of the 9/11 hijackers more than a year before the attacks, Sentate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said Wednesday.

"That looks to me as it may be obstruction of the committee's activities," Specter, R-Pennsylvania, said at the start of his committee's hearing into the unit code-named Able Danger.

Before Wednesday's hearing, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the Pentagon was concerned about discussing a classified program in an open hearing and it had worked with the committee to provide a Department of Defense representative to testify. That representative was the acting assistant to the secretary for intelligence oversight, William Dugan

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abledanger; abledangerhearing; gorelick; kleinsmith; specter
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1 posted on 09/21/2005 1:37:32 PM PDT by YaYa123
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To: YaYa123

I never thought I'd say this but, Go Arlen!


2 posted on 09/21/2005 1:38:26 PM PDT by NeoCaveman ("Government is not the solution, it is the problem" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: YaYa123

I called it.

I said the media would focus on the blocking of witnesses more than the fact that the data was deleted back in May / June of 2000.


3 posted on 09/21/2005 1:38:44 PM PDT by nuffsenuff (Don't get stuck on Stupid - General Russ Honore Sept 21, 2005)
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To: YaYa123

Well, whaddaya know? CNN covers today's Able Danger Hearing, at least with this unattributted, online article.
I hope someone can tell us if Wolf Blitzer mentions it on air.


4 posted on 09/21/2005 1:39:40 PM PDT by YaYa123 (@ God Bless President Bush As the MSM and Democrats Seek To Destroy Him.com)
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To: YaYa123

I told you they wouldn't mention that the data was deleted while Clinton was in office.


5 posted on 09/21/2005 1:40:19 PM PDT by nuffsenuff (Don't get stuck on Stupid - General Russ Honore Sept 21, 2005)
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BUMP


6 posted on 09/21/2005 1:45:22 PM PDT by krunkygirl
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To: nuffsenuff

Well, nuffsenuff, so far, the media hasn't paid much attention to any of it! I took notes of today's hearing, you can read them here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1488759/posts

The Pentagon sent Dugin to testify on behalf of his boss, Rumsfeld. Specter noted how evasive and non-responsive Dugin was.


7 posted on 09/21/2005 1:45:40 PM PDT by YaYa123 (@ God Bless President Bush As the MSM and Democrats Seek To Destroy Him.com)
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To: YaYa123

Rumsfeld had better get out in front of this or the 9/11 families and the MSM will be out for blood. And before someone says this is the Rove plan, just so he can turn around and blame it on Clinton, forget about it.

We've been saying that for 5 years and it hasn't happened yet. That's not how Bush operates.


8 posted on 09/21/2005 1:48:24 PM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: YaYa123

That "United States of America" thing was an interesting experiment in self government. Too bad it didn't last long.


9 posted on 09/21/2005 1:49:34 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: YaYa123
Personally I suspect plenty of CYA from both sides of the aisle and I don't care who gets embarrassed as long as we get the truth.
10 posted on 09/21/2005 1:52:47 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: YaYa123

I still can't find reports of today's hearing at MSNBC or ABCNews.com, or CBSNews.com Still looking, but only found mention at FOXNews.com and much later, CNN.


11 posted on 09/21/2005 1:52:47 PM PDT by YaYa123 (@ God Bless President Bush As the MSM and Democrats Seek To Destroy Him.com)
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To: YaYa123

Meanwhile back on the Animal Farm.


12 posted on 09/21/2005 1:57:30 PM PDT by Waco
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To: Peach

"Pentagon gags 'Able Danger' team
UPI, by Shaun Waterman"

was an article posted earlier today on Lucianne.com, but it disappeared too quickly for me to be able to read it, much less post it here.

I think it's accurate to say the MSM is not interested in today's hearing.


13 posted on 09/21/2005 2:08:56 PM PDT by YaYa123 (@ God Bless President Bush As the MSM and Democrats Seek To Destroy Him.com)
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To: dubyaismypresident
Call me cynical, but I think Arlen coreographed this little studder stip. Arlen got with DOD and they decided before any hearings this would be their strategy. For 15 months and even before the 9/11 Hearings, every day, that is all we heard about. The Jersey Moms,...now the Jersey Moms declare themselves democrats first and mothers second, with their silence. The old saw, "The coverup is always worse than the crime" no longer seems to fit when the dems are gonna be revealed. This is disgusting. If Arlen wants conservatives to support him, he needs to be up front and very, very loud in his denunciation of these people being ordered to be silent.

If Arlen wants to listen to these people, he can ask the committee to vote global immunity to anyone who testifies. Then the military is without excuse.

14 posted on 09/21/2005 2:12:02 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter (E)
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To: Peach

I don't think the MSM will be out for blood on this one. Too risky, they will just continue to bash Bush on Iraq, NO, and the high prices at the pump.


15 posted on 09/21/2005 2:15:33 PM PDT by TBall
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To: YaYa123

Congress is going to make this much more confusing than it needs to be. Congress makes the laws that make it nearly impossible for covert agents to do their jobs, especially if any of the covert stuff is happening in the US or involves any contact whatsoever with an American citizen.

We really only need a few basic questions answered:

1) Was Atta or the Brooklyn cell identified before 9/11.

2) Who as told about Atta/Brooklyn and what did they do with the info.

3) Who ordered the information destroyed and why.

#3 was partially answered today so we're left with two questions.


16 posted on 09/21/2005 2:25:49 PM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: YaYa123
Give it time...

Hours after Lt. Col. Shaffer revealed that he'd been muzzled, Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman told the New York Times that open testimony on Able Danger "would not be appropriate."

Newsmax

Probably won't hit the networks for a few hours at least. The folks at DU are already foaming at the mouth. This is way too juicy for the NYT to pass up.

17 posted on 09/21/2005 2:45:53 PM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: YaYa123

Heads up: Michael Savage is devoting his whole show today on Able Danger along with a Weldon interview and audio clips from C-SPAN 3.


18 posted on 09/21/2005 3:10:33 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar

C-span tonight:

09:25 PM EDT
2:19 (est.)
Senate Committee
Able Danger and Intelligence Sharing
Judiciary
Arlen Specter , R-PA
Curt Weldon , R-PA


19 posted on 09/21/2005 3:15:28 PM PDT by YaYa123 (@ God Bless President Bush As the MSM and Democrats Seek To Destroy Him.com)
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To: Peach

Maybe Hillary has Rumsfeld's FBI file.


20 posted on 09/21/2005 3:32:38 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy
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