Posted on 08/18/2005 9:43:42 AM PDT by SueRae
The families of 9/11 victims are outraged that military spies were blocked from sharing key intelligence they believe could have averted the terrorist attacks – and are calling for a new commission to investigate.
"I’m angry that my son’s death could have been prevented,” Diana Horning, whose son was killed at the World Trade Center, told the New York Post.
"It outrages me because it’s taken four years to come out.”
Horning and other family members of 9/11 victims are up in arms over the disclosure that the elite military intelligence unit "Able Danger” had identified Mohammed Atta and three other Sept. 11 hijackers more than a year before the attacks, but military lawyers stopped the unit from sharing the information with the FBI.
"I don’t think you can understate the significance here,” Mindy Kleinberg, a member of the Sept. 11 Advocates, a coalition of family members, told the Post.
"You’re talking about the four lead hijackers. If we shared information and did surveillance on them, there is no telling what we could have uncovered and what we could have thwarted. "I think we do need a new commission, and that’s really sad.”
Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), vice chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees, has said the Sept. 11 commission did not adequately investigate the report that four of the hijackers had been identified.
And Bill Doyle, whose son was killed on 9/11, ripped Jamie Gorelick, President Clinton’s deputy attorney general, who codified the separation between intelligence and investigative agencies in a 1995 memo – then was chosen to serve on the Sept. 11 commission investigating the attacks.
"What is disheartening,” said Doyle, "is from the beginning, we said Jamie Gorelick had a conflict of interest.”
Thank you. Doesn't anybody else possess a righteous anger over the tens of millions of dollars that are just pissed away down the drain to mount these shows which are simply meant to get the heat off the Congress? Why aren't the pols who have been sitting on these committees for generations encompassing one Administration after another held accountable? Why didn't Joe Biden stop 911? He's been involved with the intelligence community for how long/ And he hasn't developed any tangible expertise?
No, history as yet unwritten will slowly discover the whys and wherefors of September 11, 2001. Don't waste any more money on endowing politicians or ex-politicians to find and tell the truth.
Thank you!!
I don't know if the presser will happen, but it's good to know they had one scheduled, (if they cancel it, they'll maybe l00k a little bit bad?, unless the press just does'nt show up!)
Yes...he did...but the American public had no idea what OSW and ONW were about...and the American public didn't want to know what they were about...the American public just wants to go thru life one day at a time trying to be happy campers....oblivious to what is going on around them...
In the real world, this should come back to haunt hildabeast and the evil one. Since we don't live in the real world, they'll try to blame Bush. Hopefully this time, something will stick to hildabeast other that old crusty!
Has anyone mentioned the horrible irony of this?
The Pentagon.
Great Idea SueRAE about having a 911 Report Book Burning.
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