Posted on 02/17/2006 7:06:04 PM PST by vadkins
25th Item: Holy Cow! Weldon has a signed affidavit from a witness that talked to one of Cambone’s staff recently and who said Cambone’s group was going to ‘kill this story’ and Shaffer had no credibility. The name is Butch Willard This is right after Cambone claimed no one was not trying to ‘bring the information forward’. If Weldon is right, Cambone just perjured himself and is in hot water now. The witness is an ex intelligence officer (woman). They moved all this to the closed session!
(Excerpt) Read more at strata-sphere.com ...
BTTT!
Thanks for the ping. Cambone seems to be a recurring name:
From Weldon's September 17, 2005 press conference:
And furthermore, what Tony Shaffer will tell you in the hallway outside is that he personally briefed General Shelton on Able Danger, and in a briefing in the first quarter of 2001, and he will name the people that were in the room. He was giving a briefing on another topic, remember the name of that?
STAFF: (OFF-MIKE)
WELDON: Door Hop Galley (ph) which is another classified program.
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."
And later
What materials did Richard Schiefren (ph) discuss in a briefing that was held with Colonel Shaffer, Steve Cambone and Admiral Wilson in the Door Hop Galley (ph) briefing in the winter of '01? What was the Able Danger material discussed in that meeting?
And finally, and most importantly, why did the 9/11 Commission, charged with the responsibility by the Congress with my support, choose to totally ignore the work of Able Danger? And why did they not pursue the people that I've pursued over the last 35, 40 days that would have provided them the same information that I've provided?
And later...
WELDON: And I can tell you I met with Steve Cambone right after the story broke in the New York Times. And, as you all know, I did a floor speech a month before that. So this wasn't something I did for the media.
The New York Times did not pick up on this story until a trade publication called Defense Security News published it. And then the New York Times picked it up. That was a month after I gave the floor speech in late June of this year.
When Steve Cambone came in to meet with me, he said, "Congressman, you know more about this program than I do."
I brought Tony Shaffer in to meet with Steve Cambone, with the understanding his career would not be ruined. In the 19 years I've been in this city, I have seen people's careers ruined. I saw it with Notra Trulock, I saw it with Jay Stewart (ph), I saw it with Dr. Gordon Ehlers, I saw it with Mike Maluf (ph), I saw it with Jack Daly (ph).
I've seen it time and again.
My concern was that these military people, who wanted to simply tell the truth, would not have their careers ruined.
Steve Cambone never mentioned to me that Able Danger was ever discussed in a meeting on Door Hop Galley (ph). Now, maybe he didn't remember that. That's understandable. And I'm not faulting him for that.
But in that meeting with Richard Schiefren (ph) and Admiral Wilson, as you can ask Tony Shaffer outside, Able Danger was discussed. It was not the purpose of the meeting, but it was discussed."
and later...
"And my understanding is -- correct me if I'm wrong -- that Richard Schiefren (ph) was the individual who ordered the destruction -- or the stoppage of the LIWA. Is that correct?
Richard Schiefren (ph), the same lawyer who was in the briefing with Steve Cambone in the winter of '01, was the lawyer who caused the data mining at LIWA to stop."
Link: http://floppingaces.blogspot.com/2005/09/gorelick-wall-sandy-berger-update.html
just curious...
I didn't know that Cambone was under oath....
what did I miss?
I don't know if he was under oath, or not under oath in the hearings. Does the Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence pledge an oath? Is he ( she) sworn in? If so, what is the oath? To protect the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic?
I'm boiling hot water just in case. :-)
Thanks Starwise checkig it out now.
Good point EC, I think Weldon made a point of it Wed. if memory serves me, that even though no one was sworn in they still were under oath,at least that's what I recall.
There was some discussion about this during the hearing. They never actually took the pledge (the reason was not clear to me). Weldon said something to the effect that, you know you're all under oath correct? And I think Cambone may have said he had an oath to the office he was sworn to uphold (not the truth!)
That's about what I recall as well.
keeping bumped
Thanks for the ping!
Yeah. I doubt we will ever get the truth, as we have been hearing it, published. It will be filed under silence.
Bump!
Butch Willard is a strange name for a woman.
Closed sessions are reserved for classified information hearings.
Are you sure "closed sessions" are not reserved for democrats when the truth is getting so close they don't want the press to know?
Bttt
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