It troubled me to read the above piece. There are so many accounts of the Able Danger matter. Louis Freeh wrote a piece on it in the Wall Street Journal. In the last paragraph he says:
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter, has led the way in cleaning up the 9/11 Commission's unfinished business. Amid a very full plate of responsibilities, he conducted a hearing after noting that Col. Shaffer and Capt. Phillpott "appear to have credibility." Himself a former prosecutor, Mr. Specter noted: "If Mr. Atta and other 9/11 terrorists were identified before the attacks, it would be a very serious breach not to have that information passed along . . . we ought to get to the bottom of it." Indeed we should. The 9/11 Commission gets an "I" grade--incomplete--for its dereliction regarding Able Danger. The Joint Intelligence Committees should reconvene and, in addition to Able Danger team members, we should have the 9/11 commissioners appear as witnesses so the families can hear their explanation why this doesn't matter.
The paragraph begs answers. It also tells me Jamie Gorelick was on the wrong side of the table during the hearings.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007559
" Jamie Gorelick was on the wrong side of the table during the hearings."
true beyond doubt.
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