Posted on 08/12/2005 10:43:36 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Friday, Aug. 12, 2005 11:14 a.m. EDT Clinton Lawyers: Mohamed Atta Off-Limits
A year before the 9/11 attacks, Clinton administration lawyers told a group of military intelligence officers that information they had developed on 9/11 ringleader Mohamed Atta could not be shared with the FBI, saying of Atta himself: "You can't even touch him - it doesn't matter what information you have."
Rep. Curt Weldon, who helped develop the military intelligence group code-named "Able Danger," delivered the bombshell revelation in an interview Thursday with WABC Radio host Sean Hannity.
WELDON: In September of 2000 we tried on three occasions to take the information we had developed and pass it along to the FBI so they could follow up and take action against this [al-Qaida] cell and perhaps bring in Atta and question him and do whatever else was necessary. Three times we were turned down by lawyers in the administration.
HANNITY: We're talking about lawyers in the Clinton administration?
WELDON: Yes, it was the Clinton administration. Lawyers said there were two reasons why you can't do that. And they even put stickies over the face of Mohamed Atta on this chart they had. They said: "He's here legally. He's either got a green card or he's got a visa. So you can't even touch him - it doesn't matter what information you have." [END OF EXCERPT]
Moments later, Weldon said he was determined to find out who it was who ultimately gave the order to protect the lead 9/11 hijacker.
WELDON: The American people need to have answers. They need to have answers about who made the decision to stop our military intelligence from sharing information with the FBI, and how high up the ladder that went.
Did it stop at DoD? Or was the Justice Department involved in that decision? Or was the White House involved in that decision? [END OF EXCERPT]
Well, I can't believe that the Bushies DIDN'T know about Able Danger all along. If they didn't, they were as blindsided as the media.
I think this scandal will go all the way up to the presidency -- the Clinton presidency.
Bush held back on it just like he was forgiving about everything else Clinton did -- like the whole trashing of the White House thing.
I think the Bushies, with all the dirt they had hanging over the Clintons, were really hoping that Clinton, as the titular head of the Democrat party, would keep his people reigned in a bit, and that the "new tone" would be given a chance.
I mean, Able Danger is all water under the bridge, isn't it? Bill Clinton and Papa Bush are playing golf together, right?
But finally, W's forebeanance was worn out with the latest Clinton attack on Judge Roberts, especially combined with all of the other continued liberal attacks on every other Bush move.
I think (hope) that these Able Danger revelations are (finally) a shot across the bow to the Clinton democrat party that they have reached the limit, and if they don't start playing by the rules, a lot more is to follow.
is this guy pushing a book? if it went down exactly like that, it seems Atta was being protected.
It's not so indirect. We were getting blasted and blasted and blasted. I don't think that the fact we haven't get hit maybe is because we're doing so great, but maybe our security is just a little more back to normal.
The Clinton record
WTC. Oklahoma City. US Embassies in Africa. The USS Cole. 911
Go Slick Willy!
In other words, is there another 'wall' memorandum (or related documents) buried in DOD files of the General Counsel's office, etc.????? Was any Gorelick policy barring such information-sharing in effect at the Pentagon throughout the Clinton years? It's a provocative question.
Such a document, if it exists and can be unearthed from the Pentagon's bureaucracy, would be truly damning.... especially if Rumsfeld could do an Ashcroft-type presentation of it at a press conference!!
There is one thing that has always bothered me about 9/11 and Hill and Bill. The fact that her nemesis and our beloved former freeper Barbara Olsen was on board one of the highjacked jets. It's probably a terrible coincidence but it has always raised my eyebrow. On that morning Bill was in Australia and Hill never showed up to some meeting on Capitol Hill IIRC.
No matter hows hard the MSM is trying to continue to hide this, it is not just simply going to go away.
Incredible how much the Clinton administration has damaged America. And to think his witch wants to run for president! Damn, they both should be in jail.
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I agree as many do, and it did not take this recent BIG FINALE of discovery of the Clinton travesties against this country....they both should have been in the slammer a long time ago.
It is going to be VERY TELLING as to how the media, and our government handles this DISCOVERY OF SUCH INCOMPETENCE AND POLITICAL CHICANERY AND GROSS NEGLIGENCE !!!! IT WILL TELL YOU ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT / MEDIA COMPLEX.
And don't forget that the Clintons had already removed every state attorney upon their election, so in cases where a US atty. had to be used, they were already "cleared" partisans who would accede to her new dictates. Boy, they plotted and schemed all this from the get go, those traitors!
Rep. Curt Weldon said today on Fox News that there are 15 unexamined boxes of documents(!), and now 11 witnesses(!!), (NOT just 1), who are willing to testify under oath.
He also is calling for 9/11 Staffers to be questioned under oath re: their evident negligence, &/or close-mindedness, &/or cover-up behavior, and/or stonewalling.
my, my
Under little-known, but established, US Supreme Court-sanctioned precedent, Jamie Gorelick, as a former Federal bureaucrat, can & should be sued civilly for gross dereliction of duty, for contributory negligence and culpability in 3,000 deaths (& counting), and for gross negligence as the DOJ "Wall of Separation" memo author, which greatly & unconscionably expanded the "letter of the law" to, in effect, protect spies and terrorists.
This in turn may lead to other higher up Clinton Administration officials being revealed as complicit or culpable under discovery, deposition and courtroom testimony.
Certainly the infamous Gorelick DOJ memo was consistent with the highly cautious and overly legalistic approach of the Clinton Administration (& The Clinton White House) toward National Security, espionage, and terrorism issues.
Hope he takes his time with this, drags it out for a while..
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Do you know if anyone has ever compiled a list of the 'new' state attorneys who took affice immediately following Jan. 20, 1993?
Thanks,
Pinz
Simple...Gorelick was making the decisions on who to interview and what to report.
SOP for bureacratic whitewash jobs.
Sure...as long as a REPUBLICAN is the current resident.
If it's one of the MSM's own, it becomes a non-story that the masses never even hear about, let alone are whipped into a frenzy over a la Richard Nixon.
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