Posted on 02/15/2006 7:36:59 AM PST by abner
Edited on 02/15/2006 11:51:48 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Please take a moment to call the C-Span office to let them know you would like to see the Able Danger hearings today. The hearing starts at 2:30 eastern time today. It is not on their schedule and when I called C-Span they said they did not know if or when they would run the hearing. Then I called Congressman Weldon's office and they are baffled that C-Span is not running the hearing. I told Weldon's office I would put this thread up and hopefully enough people will call C-Span to encourage them to run the hearings live.
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I sent an email to the media outlets (yeah, they'll do something), about CSPAN not showing the open hearing with no plans to play it later... I hope a couple of them will write something.
http://www.nndb.com/people/819/000047678/
After helping to develop policies concerning tactical nukes at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (1982-86), Dr. Stephen Cambone spent the next four years at defense contractor SRS Technologies thinking about ballistic missiles. A nuclear arms control expert, Cambone spent 1990-93 working for Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, and his contributions in 1991 helped to shape President George H.W. Bush's adjustments to the Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars") project.
Cambone spent the Clinton years out of government -- first by working for the conservative think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (1993-98), then two years at the National Defense University.
Cambone returned to the Pentagon with the second Bush administration, reporting directly to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Reportedly, Cambone was not well-liked by the military staff. In 2002, a fellow neocon and colleague at the Project for the New American Century described him this way:
Fairly or not, Cambone has long been viewed as Rumsfeld's henchman, almost universally loathed -- but more important, feared -- by the services.
In 2001, Cambone was promoted into the new position of Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. During the buildup to the Iraq invasion, Cambone granted an interview with The New Yorker in which he described potential improvements to the Arab world:
Will there be further regime changes in the Middle East? "Things won't be the same after as they were before," Cambone said. "Just by virtue of the event occurring, people making commitments. So should a conflict -- and I underline should, if, maybe -- there is a prospect that things, yeah, I think things could change in many of those places. Now, things could also go badly. One should not discount, for all that one can imagine good things happening, the prospect that things that would not be helpful or positive could occur, too" -- especially, he added, if the United States and its allies do not manage the postwar period adeptly.
When President George W. Bush finally asked who was in charge of finding the Iraqi WMDs, his staffers eventually fingered Cambone. Journalist Seymour Hersh quoted an unnamed CIA official as saying, "Remember Henry II -- 'Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?' [...] Whatever Rumsfeld whimsically says, Cambone will do ten times that much." Not surprisingly, after the Abu Ghraib torture scandal broke, unidentified members of the Bush administration promptly fingered Cambone as being the mastermind behind placing the prison in the hands of military intelligence.
9/11 commission is a complete joke. I think that is a big part of why they fear talking about able danger openly. It is the cog that,when removed, will show the afront put forth by the folks that sat on that commission....some of whom really should have been on the answering side rather than the asking side.
Exactly...
I think Cambones boss.
Repeating
Able Danger hearings link:
http://hasc3.house.gov/hascradio
But they have no qualms about showing hearings on our national security when it gives the enemy info.
Nice dream Ali. It's more important that our V.P. shot a close friend. The press could care less about this.
OK, thanks.
Boy do these folks sound nervous!
Asks Weldon to hold this line of questioning until in closed session.
I would think that these hearings (Able Danger) are more damaging to national security than the NSA hearings were. The Able Danger hearings show how the dots can be connected, which enables a person aiming to be stealthy to avoid leaving a "dot connecting trail."
The NSA hearings were all about legal interpretation of balance of powers, and general policy.
Too bad the leaker to the Times won't come forward... Not that they would report it...
Is FR running realllllly sloooow, or is it just me?
It's SLOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
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