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Would you like it from Curt Weldon?

Press Conference of Rep Curt Weldon: 9/11 Commission and Operation "Able Danger"

How about some quotes...

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"In the course of that briefing -- and there was a Navy admiral in the room, Admiral Wilson, in charge of DIA, and Richard Schiefren (ph) was in the room. Richard Schiefren (ph) was an attorney at DOD.

In the course of that discussion, Richard Schiefren (ph) discussed Able Danger. I did not know that up until I watched the Heritage Foundation speech that I gave in 2002, where I document the meeting, in the briefing that was done for General Shelton. When I asked Tony Shaffer this morning about that, he said, "Yes, I briefed General Shelton. I was also involved in a Door Hop Galley (ph) brief, where Steve Cambone" -- he was not in the position he's in today. He was a special adviser to Don Rumsfeld.

My concern is if there were 2.5 terabytes of data that were destroyed in the summer of 2000, there had to be material in 2001 if you briefed General Shelton. Where is that material? Where is that briefing?

In addition, there is a question about the possibility of additional data that was in Tony Shaffer's office that was removed, not all of which was turned over to the 9/11 Commission.

As most of you know by now, when Tony Shaffer returned in January of 2004, Tony Shaffer -- or 2003, get my dates right, 2003 -- 2004 -- in January 2004 -- right, because it was in October of 2003 when he first briefed the 9/11 Commission's staff over in Baghram.

In January of 2004 when he was twice rebuffed by the 9/11 Commission for a personal follow-up meeting, he was assigned back to Afghanistan to lead a special classified program.

When he returned in March, he was called in and verbally his security clearance was temporarily lifted. By lifting his security clearance, he could not go back into DIA quarters where all the materials he had about Able Danger were, in fact, stored. He could not get access to memos that, in fact, he will tell you discussed the briefings he provided both to the previous administration and this administration.

For the 9/11 Commission to say that this does not exist is just absolutely outrageous."

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So, either the Bush Administration is allowing the DOD to LIE to Conmgress that the info that Tony Schaffer had was destroyed...or it WAS destroyed! Because this was January 2004! No Klinton orders, unless it was Klintonistas that did it...in which case hanging is required!

Which do you prefer? Because it has to be ONE or the other...because by now, if the Bush Administration was NOT involved in the cover-up, they would have ordered the documents/data released to the Weldon Hearings...or would they?

Your choice...pick one!

I not only read Mr. Weldon's speech and transcript when it was first posted, I sent it out en masse.

What you have posited in earlier posts STILL is not evidence that you can conveniently fit into your alleged scenario of the "Clinton/Bush Cabal". Your words.

Secondly, I think you might need to learn MORE about "intel" and classified data, if you think a President can "merely" override procedures regarding security and intel.

By the way, what do you think NSA does? Do you think NSA has any hand in this?

So, either the Bush Administration is allowing the DOD to LIE to Conmgress

"allowing them to lie"? Or would you prefer to say: "not forcing them to "release" data"? If other branches of the cabinet do NOT concur with the release of this data, what exactly do you suggest the President DO?

Because it has to be ONE or the other...because by now, if the Bush Administration was NOT involved in the cover-up, they would have ordered the documents/data released to the Weldon Hearings...or would they? Your choice...pick one!

Again, you are offering me false choices based on your not very much knowledgeable understanding about how "intel" data is handled.

Keep me amused, and tell me now, that you think the President should EXECUTIVE ORDER release of this data, that no one can find? Or, now tell me that you know the destruction of the docs "goes STRAIGHT TO THE TOP" and tell me you aren't a quasi-democrat? Or just don't understand the process?

Contrariwise, We know DIRECTLY, AFFIRMATIVELY, EVIDENTIALLY -- that the 9-11 Commission REFUSED to countenance the Able Danger data. Do you posit "Bush" ordered them to? If No President, then whom do you think ordered the 9-11 Commission to IGNORE Able Danger?