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Freeh, Able Danger, Gorton, Roemer
REDSTATE.ORG ^ | Nov 24th, 2005 | By: John Batchelor

Posted on 11/24/2005 1:06:01 PM PST by johnny7

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh did not learn of Able Danger until the summer of 2005.  Commenting on the Wall Street Journal op-ed that he published Wednesday November 17, Louis Freeh told me tonight that he and his commanders had no knowledge of the facts of the Special Operations Command's data-mining program, code-named Able Danger, before the remarks by Shaffer and Phillpot in the media and eventually before Senators Specter's Judiciary Committee.

More, Louis Freeh, now a private attorney for MBNA, said that since the Able Danger revelation no one at the 9-11 Commission has called him to update the record with regard the now bluntly incomplete final report of the 9-11 Commission July 24, 2004, which declared that, "American intelligence agencies were unaware of Mr. Atta until the day of the attacks." Louis Freeh also said that he is certain the FBI command did not have independently the Able Danger data point that Mohammed Atta was in operation in Brooklyn, New York in January-February 2002.  Freeh was adamant that if the FBI had known, then there was a high likelihood it could have prevented 9-11.

In a letter to the Wall Street Journal, Monday November 21, 9-11 Commissioners Slade Gorton and Timothy Roemer wrote that Shaffer and Philpot in testimony to the Commission staff in the summer of 2004 did not provide documents to substantiate the tale of Able Danger identifying Mohammed Atta before September 2001 and therefore the Commission is correct in dismissing their stories.  Gorton and Roemer dismissed Louis Freeh's op-ed as equally unproved with the strangely ungenerous, "You are entitled to your own opinion but not to your own facts.”

Freeh's response tonight to Gorton and Roemer was that this letter treats the honorable military officers Shaffer and Phillpot the same as liars.  Freeh observed that Gorton and Roemer complain about the lack of documents to support Shaffer and Phillpott; however Freeh reasoned that you do not ignore witnesses only because you do not yet have documents to corroborate their testimony.  Freeh also puzzled why only two commissioners and not all of them signed this letter protesting his questions on Able Danger.  And Freeh said that Gorton and Roemer mentioning that the investigation was continuing with the Senate Select Intelligence Committee was the first he had heard of it; and that he had yet to be called to testify or contribute.

In all, Freeh supported the notion that there must be a fresh, tireless, data-mining savvy investigation as to why Able Danger did not reach the FBI in 2001 and whether the problem in 2001 continues today at the Department of Defense and the FBI.   More, not until we have confirmed or refuted the Shaffer and Phillpot and others report of Atta in Brooklyn in January-February 2000 can we have confidence that the 9-11 Commission report has accurate conclusions.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911commission; abledanger; batchelor; fbi; gorton; louisfreeh; philpot; roemer; shaffer
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To: backhoe; Mia T

#5 BUMPping


21 posted on 11/25/2005 12:26:04 AM PST by Brian Allen (Patriotic, Immigrant & therefore Hyphenated-AMERICAN-American & Aviator by choice. Christian byGrace)
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68; johnny7

<< .... Hitlary's buddy Jamie Gorelick >>

Hmmmmmm.

Seems the Cli'ton Crime Family's former director of the FBI has moved over to be the house consigliere of MBNA.

Be able to pal up with effectively career criminal and most certainly way-above-his-pay-scale dangerous dullard, Joe Bananas Biden [D]-MBNA.

Hmmmmmmmmmm ...............


22 posted on 11/25/2005 12:39:27 AM PST by Brian Allen (Patriotic, Immigrant & therefore Hyphenated-AMERICAN-American & Aviator by choice. Christian byGrace)
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To: surrey

I have had some communications with one of Freeh's brothers. It's a deeply Catholic family with strong values. I mean real Catholic, not kerry or kennedy Catholic.

I don't know why Freeh would honor Reno. It may be that what he saw was a woman without all her marbles who did her best but was leaned on and twisted by clinton, much as he was. I don't myself believe that Reno is corrupt, just stupid and infected by the well-meaning liberal disease, and perhaps in her later years not all there.


23 posted on 11/25/2005 8:16:59 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Brian Allen

Bristol-Myers Squibb Names Louis J. Freeh To Board Of Directors




NEW YORK (September 13, 2005) -- Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) today announced that its Board of Directors has elected Louis J. Freeh, Vice Chairman of MBNA America Bank, N.A., to the Board. His appointment is effective today.

Freeh, 55, has served as Vice Chairman of MBNA, a Fortune 200 company, since September 2001. He is also the General Counsel for the Bank and MBNA Corporation, Corporate Secretary and Ethics Officer.

Prior to joining MBNA, Freeh enjoyed a long and distinguished career in public service and law enforcement, beginning as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he held positions of increasing responsibility. He was later appointed a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York by President George H.W. Bush and served in this role until he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Director of the FBI, having been nominated by President Bill Clinton, a position he held for approximately eight years before retiring to join MBNA.

Freeh graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Rutgers College, received a J.D. degree from Rutgers Law School and an LL.M degree in criminal law from New York University Law School. He is a member of the New York, New Jersey and District of Columbia bars.

"Louis's solid and broad background in business and government make him an outstanding addition to our Board," said Peter R. Dolan, chief executive officer, Bristol-Myers Squibb.

James D. Robinson III, chairman of Bristol-Myers Squibb added, "We all look forward to working with Louis and benefiting from his experience and wisdom."

Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global pharmaceutical and related healthcare products company whose mission is to extend and enhance human life.


Article Date: 09/13/2005


24 posted on 11/25/2005 8:19:52 AM PST by Vn_survivor_67-68
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