Posted on 02/18/2006 6:33:28 AM PST by americaprd
"WE were sitting on the north coast watching the fighters come in, and we couldn't do anything about it," Eric Kleinsmith told the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday.
The allusion Mr. Kleinsmith made was to the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, but he was speaking of the more devastating surprise attack which took place on Sept. 11, 2001.
Mr. Kleinsmith and the two colleagues who testified with him in open session are convinced that had the information they developed been acted on, not only 9/11, but also the October, 2000, attack on the destroyer USS Cole in which 17 sailors died could have been prevented.
Through computer scanning of some 2.5 terabytes of classified and unclassified data, the Able Danger team identified five "nodes" of al-Qaeda activity. One was in Brooklyn, N.Y. Another was in the port of Aden in Yemen, where the USS Cole was attacked.
Able Danger linked Mohamed Atta and three other 9/11 hijackers to the Brooklyn cell, said Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, who was the liaison between the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Able Danger team.
"It shocked us how entrenched a presence al-Qaeda had in the United States," Mr. Kleinsmith said.
Colonel Shaffer testified he tried three times to have Able Danger data on the Brooklyn cell presented to the FBI, but that on each occasion Pentagon lawyers forbade the meeting.
In a commentary in the Wall Journal last November, Louis Freeh, who was FBI director at the time, said that if he had been told about what Able Danger had learned, 9/11 likely would have been prevented.
(Excerpt) Read more at toledoblade.com ...
Also, this site is sending out emails from people urging the media to cover Able Danger. You can sedn the email here:
http://www.democracyinaction.org/mediachannel/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=2631
Why isn't this getting more press. Someone change David Gregory's diaper, wash his mouth out with soap, spank his silly *ss and tell him to do something worthwhile, investigate this story. (Under the threat, of course, that if he distorts the truth, he will have to wear his dirty diaper until he gets it right)!
"Nice to see someone is covering Able Danger."I agree.The msm won't touch this with a ten foot pole.Why not?I believe the Clinton admin was involved in the supression of AD.Of course if the Bush admin were implicated in this fiasco,this would be frontpage news,24/7.
David Gregory has been 'bottle fed' news stories for so long, he has no idea how to go out and do real reporting.
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Thoughts?
So it will take the bought and paid for "media" to expose the truth?
The gop controls the entire government, top to bottom.
The fact that the administration is covering up this intellegence, is disturbing to the point of fear.
Even most of the 'conservative' talk shows spent more time on the Cheney accident than on Able Danger after Weldon's hearings.
AD just has no legs -- the media, including 'conservative' talk shows -- are more interested in mind-mush than in real news, and most government/politicians don't want it aired.
AD will get buried in the dustbin of history. Maybe a century from now, some historian will dig it out and give it a full investigation. Until then, too many living persons (from both political parties) are too directly involved for AD to get a full airing.
Jack Kelly is a member of The Blade’s national bureau. » E-mail him at jkelly@post-gazette.com
Jack Kelly is a columnist for the Post Gazette, of which the Toldeo Blade is a saister newspaper. Look for his column in the Sunday Post Gazette (and hopefully other papers owned by the same publisher.) The reason for the delay is that he is a columnist and he needed to wait for his next rotation (he has set days his column appears) to come up for the column to run.
He mentioned this on his blog, which I posted on FR yesterday.
A woman called into the morning call in show and complained about the timing.....asked if they would repeat so we could all see it.
She said it was riveting.......anyone see it?
There were two hearings this week that were Able Danger related. The first one was before the House Government Reform Committee on whistleblowers, in which Schaeffer testified about the retaliation agaisnt him. That was covered by cspan, but it did not get into a lot of detaisl on the Able Danger program. That was Tuesday.
The second hearing, before the House Armed Services committee was on Wednesday and was not covered by Cspan, or any other major news outlets for that matter. Some other posts have links to the audio. This hearing was MUCH more riveting than the Tuesday hearing.
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Any one see it?
Well, Weldon on the Michael Savage show gave Cspan a hard time for not sending any cameras out, so I doubt it. The Cspan schedule also lists the whistleblower hearing as being on in the middle of the night (I think it was the third or fourth time they showed it).
http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/fullschedule.csp?timeid=212006889760
Folks still employed are keeping the lid tight. The Pentagon, Senators and all kinds of Government employees for life protect the gravy train.
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