Posted on 10/21/2005 7:01:17 PM PDT by davidosborne
I caught the end of the interview.. Did anyone catch this interview? Was any new information revealed?
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Dieter Schnell , a high-up in the DIA, if I recall Curt correctly, never divulged info to the 9/11 commission staff or members re: what had been found about Atta.
The Defense Department and DIA are not allowing anyone to come forward with info that would shed light on who knew what and when.
The gist is that carry-overs from the previous administration still in their positions prevented the relaying of the intel that had been gathered by
Able Danger.
Did you hear Rep. Weldon say that LTC Shaffer's Security Clearance was pulled because he "stole" a U.S. Government pen when he was 15yrs old?
I had seen or heard of some supposed misappropriation of something or other and some expense account disputes but not when he was 15. ;-)
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/
An Insider's Look At The DIA
After the DIA has decided to run a smear campaign on LTC Tony Shaffer and to destroy his credibility, apparently for his revelations about Able Danger, the credibility of the agency itself has come under serious question. A CQ reader wishing to remain anonymous but with personal knowledge of the situation the Defense Intelligence Agency sends this description of the senior leadership at the agency:
Deputy Director of DIA is Mark Ewing. He won't be in that position for very long, seeing as how he recently put in his paperwork to resign. This action comes after he had a spat with the outgoing director, Admiral Lowell Jacoby, the subject of which is not clear ... there is the recent revelation that Ewing may very well have pulled a three-monkeys trick (see/hear/speak no evil) when presented with the findings of Able Danger. As the senior leadership exodus at DIA continues (see below) Ewing would have been the last one standing and facing the music. He would like to flee the intelligence community completely but that is apparently not possible: through a curious set of administrative circumstances he has ample government service time under his belt, but cannot retire and collect his pension (details require a long explanation). If anyone needs to panic it is Ewing.
Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby is the outgoing director of DIA. His previous assignment, in the late 2001 time-frame, was the J2 (the DOD's top officer for warning). Not many outside the business know this but his retirement timetable seemed to accelerate about the time ABLE DANGER hit the fan. This is a guy who never met a mission that he didn't want to kill or ignore if there was any chance that it would prevent him from achieving that next star on his collar. Jacoby is a naval officer but not a "ship-driver". If he were, you tell me, would you want serve on the ship being captained by a guy would didn't think it would be prudent to put the vessel in the water due to the risks involved in actually sailing? When he does go sailing he likes to make sure that there are plenty of familiar hands to help man the sails. Once he was firmly in the director's chair, he began a purge of the old executive corps at DIA, replacing most of them with friends from the office of naval intelligence. When he couldn't easily force incumbents out of their seats, he simply created new executive positions to put his pals into.
The head of HUMINT at DIA is a guy named Bill Huntington (he spoke during the DOD briefing on Able Danger). Technically he's the vice deputy director for HUMINT, but in all of these jobs the civilian deputy is the long-term head of office, while the military officer who is named the head of the office is the short-timer. Huntington is in the process of attempting to flee DIA for the DNI.
The deputy director of intelligence (head of the analysis office) is Earl Sheck. Sheck was one of the first cronies Jacoby brought over from ONI. As the keeper of the analytical resources at DIA, the odds that Sheck also knew something about Able Danger are pretty good. Able Danger was a SOCOM/LIWA show, but if they were using tools from Orion (also have contracts at DIA) and working CT issues, inevitably they would have talked to relevant offices in DIA, if nothing else than to bounce ideas off of each other or to request additional intel support. DIA's CT mission is run by the J2, but to think that Sheck would not be aware to some extent is inconceivable. Sheck is also rumored to have one foot out the door.
An intelligence agency, full of cronies who all botched their respective roles during the decades preceding and years after September 11th, thought they could handily weather the Able Danger storm. When it became clear that the ship was about to capsize, they all couldn't move fast enough for the life rafts. Not like they would have much to worry about given the tendency to not punish intelligence officers for negligence, but then the DIA isn't the CIA, and military officers (like Jacoby) have the UCMJ to worry about.
It sounds like a whole host of people want out of the DIA. Just as with the weird allegations used against Shaffer, this portrait -- if accurate -- begs the question of what the DIA dreads so much. Exposure and embarrassment? Or something worse?
Vi Adkins has a transcript of Curt Weldon's latest media appearance, an interview with Sean Hannity, at QTMonster.
Here are the "crimes" that Schaeffer is being "accused" of.
/1/ On a polygraph for a security clearance decades ago, he was asked if he had ever stolen anything. This is a standard "control" question. He replied he had taken pens from a govt office. His father was in the state dept or some other agency. The filthy scum suckers at DIA have dredged up this ancient "confession" to accuse him of "stealing govt. supplies."
/2/ He used his govt cell phone to forward official calls to his voice mail at home. (Unclassified stuff.) They charged him with about 75$ worth of cell calls, even though this was so he could continue official business (unclassified stuff) at home on his own time.
IOW, the scum sucking filthy bastards at the DIA, Clintonistas, are pulling out all of the stops to destroy Schaeffer's reputation.
Good stuff, thanks!
I also caught just the very end of the interview. Hope to read the thread and get details.
Made more calls this afternoon to senators via the toll free phone # for Congress:
1-866-727-4894
Strongly encouraging them to follow through on the Able Danger investigation.
I wish those, like Weldon, when they speak in public wouldn't use the term "previous administration" but PUT A NAME TO IT: the CLINTON administration!
thanks for the link... any idea where I can get the video of his FULL floor speech?
thanks for posting this info and BUMP
If you have read QT blog go here much much more on this person sites also follow all of his links. This stuff reminds me of some kind of Tom Clancy novel.
http://qtmonster.typepad.com/
He also has a link of an interview with Lou Dobbs
CNN /Lou Dobbs Video, Rep. Curt Weldon, Oct. 20, 2005 - Able Danger
Read post 14.
"Did you hear Rep. Weldon say that LTC Shaffer's Security Clearance was pulled because he "stole" a U.S. Government pen when he was 15yrs old?"
Oh, yeah.
"IOW, the scum sucking filthy bastards at the DIA, Clintonistas, are pulling out all of the stops to destroy Schaeffer's reputation."
Yeah, but their bosses (Bush and Rumsfeld)are pretty passive, don't you think?
bttt
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/814
Able Danger, China and DIA 10/21/05
After Curt Weldon’s blistering attack on the DIA and tried to find out who was deputy director during those years. While I have not found that information (yet) I did find out a few things.
First off, the DIA Deputy Director position is a civilian position and possibly an appointee - and that would make him/her a Clinton appointee. Recall it was DoD General Counsel lawyers who were tipped to Able Danger and came down hard, causing the purge of data in ealry 2000.
I believe the current Deputy Director is Mark Ewing who I can trace back to March 2001 (do a find on ‘ewing’). Whether Ewing is a Clinton era holdover and the source of the problem is pertinent to the Weldon claims.
Before that I have determine Jeremy Clark was the DD for DIA - and I can trace him until 1999 (do a find on ‘jeremy’). Interestingly enough, Jeremy Clark was somewhat involved in the issue of technology transfer to China during this same period - though he appears to have been aligned against the Clinton administration’s efforts to relax the restrictions:
Leitner submitted statistics showing a decline under the Clinton administration of export cases referred by the DTSA for further review by the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency. In closed testimony last week, DIA Deputy Director Jeremy Clark told the House Intelligence Committee he was worried about the decreasing number of export cases being referred to his agency for review, according to a congressional aide who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Who was in this slot from 1999-2001 I still cannot determine (but I would wager Bill Gertz knows). This leads us to the mother of all coincidences. It turns out the DIA was also heavily involved in determining the risk and damage of technology transfers to China in this time period (here, here and here)
Around this time LIWA and Orion, the unclassified data acquisition and data minining processing stages producing data sets for Able Danger HQ at SOCOM, also began work on a China data mining activity which caused a major reaction by the Clinton appointees, and led to the purging of data and firing of Orion.
Is it possible what is being covered up is not classified intelligence methods and information, but the fact the Clinton folks thought they had another, resignation-level scandal brewing with technology and China? This was just after impeachment if you recall.
We need to find out who the DIA DD was from 1999-2001.
Geez, should have checked over at Captain’s Quarters first!
UPDATE:
And of course the China connection links back to Michael Maloof, another person who came forward recently on Able Danger. More here.
(Go to the site and click on the china connection, this will blow your mind!)
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