Weldon to reveal new 'Able Danger' details

worldnetdaily.com ^ | November 9, 2005 | wnd

[ovrtaxt]

Weldon to reveal new 'Able Danger' details

Unit reportedly provided info on terror danger prior to USS Cole attack

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Posted: November 9, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., who says the Defense Department is maligning a special unit called "Able Danger" to cover-up warnings of terror attacks, will hold a press conference this morning to provide new details of his findings.

The vice chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security Committees will hold the press conference at 12:30 p.m. Eastern to discuss the latest findings of his own investigation.

He claims Able Danger provided to Defense officials information about terrorist activity in the Port of Aden prior to the terrorist attack on the USS Cole in October 2000. He will also reveal the discovery of another Able Danger member who confirms the Pentagon is not accounting for data. He also says the Defense Intelligence Agency is trying to smear Able Danger member Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer who broke the silence about the Pentagon’s efforts to track al-Qaida worldwide prior to Sept. 11.

"Able Danger" is described as a secret data-mining operation that allegedly named Mohammad Atta as an al-Qaida operative a year before Sept. 11, 2001. It was a small, highly classified operation reportedly created at the behest of then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Hugh Shelton in 1999 to develop a campaign against international terrorism and, in particular, al-Qaida.

According to reports, the Able Danger team had identified Atta, the lead attacker, and three others as probable members of an al-Qaida cell operating in the U.S. by mid-2000. That assertion, however, contradicts earlier government denials U.S. agencies had any prior knowledge of Atta or any others eventually associated with the attacks.

The disclosure of the operation and its alleged findings was first made by Weldon in a special orders speech on the House floor, and in his new book, "Countdown to Terror."

Weldon also has said the information on the prior identification of Atta was provided to the official "9-11 Commission" investigating the attacks, but commission members Timothy J. Roemer and John F. Lehman have said they never received it. He also says when the hijacker team leader was first identified, Pentagon lawyers prevented the passage of the information to the FBI.

[ovrtaxt]

Here we go again! Info dump at 12:30 today...

[ovrtaxt]

Able Danger ping! Check your C-Span schedules for possible coverage???

[ovrtaxt]

C-Span schedules here: keep an eye out for updated info.

http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/schedule.csp

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Thanks for the ping, ovrtaxt! OK. Passing ping along.

[ajolympian2004]

FYI

[AmeriBrit]

Thanks

[ajolympian2004]

Sent info to Sean Hannity. I'll bet Curt Weldon is on his radio show today and possibly H & C later tonight on Fox News.

[Joe Boucher]

Weldon and Trancredo, at least a couple of the hundreds of politicos are aparently watching out for the U.S.
The rest seem to be hogs eating at the troff.

[SE Mom]

How long can the MSM ignore this?

[Peach]

Hope I'm home to watch it!

[wastoute]

'Til the Crack of Doom...

[tiredoflaundry]

BTTT

[ajolympian2004]

If everyone can send an email to Rush about this he might make this a priority and even cover the press conference LIVE on his show.

rush@eibnet.com

[ovrtaxt]

The rest seem to be hogs eating at the troff.

Let's have an Orwellian barbecue!

[Just mythoughts]

Considering what we got out of the soviet style trial called the 9/11 Commission, I can't wait to see what "intel" the liberals have in mind to expose to change the subject about what Able Danger discovered.

I think liberals are lying in wait, just hoping and praying this gets media time, after all, appears the CIA became a covert political tool to save Saddam, win an election (JFKerry) and destroy President Bush.

Why would they not have used DOD for the same purposes? I mean after all we are talking about Clintons method of operation and one of them is a sitting Senator.

Furthermore, why does McCain hate Rummy and has his little mouthpiece Kristol trying to run Rummy out of town, and McCain is seeking to protect terrorists with his anti-torture campaign?

[ovrtaxt]

I assume you're talking about the liberals in the GOP.

I think the ONLY opposition will be from guys like Weldon, and the new media, including online snipers like me and you. The Dems don't want them to stop, the GOP leadership doesn't, the media certainly doesn't. That leaves us?

[mcshot]

As an admirer of Rummy his actions are very important here. Kind of a make or break point as in the atta-boy/aw-sh!t system.

mc

[Just mythoughts]

"I assume you're talking about the liberals in the GOP.

I think the ONLY opposition will be from guys like Weldon, and the new media, including online snipers like me and you. The Dems don't want them to stop, the GOP leadership doesn't, the media certainly doesn't. That leaves us?"

We have not been attacked again since 9/11, that means somebody is doing something right. I do not want Able Danger used NOW, as a method of exposing for the terrorist the means and methods used NOW, to protect US and that is what I fear the liberals are waiting and hoping for the opportunity to OUT that intel.

I do NOT trust McCain and his disrespect of Rummy and continual itching about Rummy tells me that he would be in the mood to seek to run him out of town, and if it were under "Able Danger" all the better, his hands would at least appear clean.

[bmwcyle]

Sandy Berger will shoot them and get a light fine.

[ovrtaxt]

Ah. Interesting!

It would be painfully transparent if McCain did that, but that's never stopped the DC mentality before.