I have also learned, Mr. Speaker, that in September of 2000, again, over 1 year before 9/11, that Able Danger team attempted on three separate occasions to provide information to the FBI about the Brooklyn cell of al Qaeda, and on three separate occasions they were denied by lawyers in the previous administration to transfer that information.
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9/11 Commission ignored it. Not because the commissioners ignored it, but because someone at the staff level on the 9/11 Commission staff decided for whatever reason that they did not want to pursue the Abel Danger story.
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The Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency was in a meeting with Lieutenant Colonel Shaffer almost a year before 9/11, and Lieutenant Colonel Shaffer showed him a disk in his office with information about al Qaeda and Mohammed Atta, and the Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency stopped the briefing and said, you cannot show me that. I do not want to see it. It might contain information I cannot look at.
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So what has happened to Lieutenant Colonel Shaffer, Mr. Speaker? The Defense Intelligence Agency has lifted his security clearance. One day before he was to testify before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, in uniform, they permanently removed his security clearance. And now our Defense Intelligence Agency has told Colonel Shaffer's lawyer that they plan to seek a permanent removal of his pay and his health care benefits for him and his two children. Why, Mr. Speaker? Because Lieutenant Colonel Shaffer, like Commander Scott Philpot of the Navy, like J. D. Smith, and like a host of other Able Danger employees, has told the truth
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This official told me that there is a separate cache of information collected from over 20 Federal agencies in 1999 and 2000 on Able Danger that still may exist.
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Now, why is this important? Is it just about "blaming" the Clinton Admin? No. IMHO, In order to get at understand, Plamegate, Sandy Berger-gate, Jamie Gorelick-gate, International Relations, Oil for Food scam -- Able Danger is pertinent. Absolutely, pertinent.
Able Danger is pertinent. Absolutely, pertinent.
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I agree!
This appears to be a bad transcript, with several duplicated paragraphs.
"... someone at the staff level on the 9/11 Commission staff decided for whatever reason that they did not want to pursue the Abel Danger story."
In Weldon's interview with Rush in the Limbaugh Letter - Weldon uses the term "her and her staff".
I believe he's referring to Gorelick. She was in charge of the staff of the 9/11 commission.
It's another one of those areas where the repubs dropped the ball. They allowed the woman who wrote the "wall" to control what was in the report. Which was the reason Daschle recommended her for the position in the first place.
Able Danger is the loose piece of yarn that when pulled unravels the whole carpet.
THere is so much here, here, it is scarry.
You nailed the point.
Absoluely correct!