Someone is sweating in Chappaqua.
Where is Brathwaite now?
I suppose you mean "overstate". It's been understated quite well recently.
Sorry, the "Jersey Girls" are the only 9/11 "families" that get noticed by the MSM. How much you wanna bet Kristin Breitweiser and co. will find nothing much to be outraged about regarding the "Able Danger" revelations.
We all know what the 9/11 commission's real objective was.
Oh, they can--at least for a while. This group needs to start doing the talk radio/Fox News tour a la Weldon and Lt. Col. Shaffer (and the Swiftees). Then, the MSM will no longer be able to ignore the 800 lb. gorilla in the room...
This is as far as this story is going to get, in NewsMax. The MSM isn't going to report it, if they do, they'll spin it as being anti-Bush anyway.
'Paging Warren Christopher . . please report to the Courtesy Desk'
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/
Able Danger: More Sources Forthcoming?
Deborah Orin continues her coverage of Able Danger, rivalling that of the cross-town Times which initially broke the story, with an interesting and somewhat contradictory follow-up with the first public source, Col. Tony Shaffer. Shaffer points out that he initially did not know that Able Danger had specifically identified Atta prior to 9/11, but did know that al-Qaeda agents had been identified as such:
Shaffer said Atta's name didn't ring a bell when he learned the hijackers' names after 9/11. But he got "a sinking feeling in my stomach" when the woman Ph.D. in charge of Able Danger's data analysis told him Atta was one of those who had been identified as a likely al Qaeda terrorist by Able Danger.
"My friend the doctor [Ph.D.] who did all the charts and ran the technology showed me the chart and said, 'Look, we had this, we knew them, we knew this.' And it was a sinking feeling, it was like, 'Oh my God, you know. We could have done something.' " ...
He said the unit tried three times to alert the FBI that it had identified al Qaeda cells in the United States — but military lawyers nixed it. Shaffer also says he alerted the 9/11 commission in October 2003 about how Able Danger identified Atta — but commission staffers blew him off and failed to properly follow up.
Shaffer has predicted that this PhD will come forward publicly in the next few days, just as soon as she gets assurances that she will suffer no retaliation for talking about the program publicly. The other source, the Navy captain who tried to get the Commission to investigate Able Danger in 2004, still wants his name withheld. However, Orin reports that the AP outed him yesterday. His rank and expertise in futuristic naval warfare has been apparently confirmed by the news agency. [CQ will not use his name until/unless he does so publicly himself out of consideration for his current assignment.]
Shaffer also added an interesting detail to the Able Danger story. Several CQ readers have wondered whether the program still exists. Shaffer says that his liaison to the program shut down months before the attack on the order of a "risk-averse" commanding general at DIA. In fact, this general had to order Shaffer to cut all ties with Able Danger, explicitly pulling rank over Shaffer's objections. His files at the DIA on Able Danger have also gone missing from their last known storage location, although the Pentagon has started a search, and files get jockeyed around enough to know that this may well be a simple case of misplacement.
It sounds like at least two more shoes may drop on Able Danger and the information it provided military intelligence. If the other sources involved in the actual data collection and analysis come forward, expect this to blow up even larger at the expense of the 9/11 Commission who ignored it
This story has acquired seven league boots.
I hope Charles Krauthammer (who I admire) backs off his dismissive first attitude. And is properly embarrassed.
Yikes, The 9/11 Omission Commyission is getting together on 9/12/05 to discuss their "report card" at a press conference scheduled to be viewed LIVE/CANNED on C-SPAN. Maybe these families outrages can be heard THERE!!
http://www.9-11pdp.org/ua/index.htm
The 9/11 Commission Report: The Unfinished Agenda
Printable schedule and location information (PDF)
June 6th
CIA AND FBI REFORM
Moderator: Jamie S. Gorelick
Panelists: Richard Thornburgh, John Gannon, Chitra Ragavan
June 13th CHALLENGES FACING THE DNI
Moderator: John F. Lehman
Panelists: Jane Harman, William O. Studeman, Siobhan Gorman
June 27th TERRORISM AND WMD
Moderator: Timothy J. Roemer
Panelists: Part I - Sam Nunn
Part II - Steve Brill, Ash Carter, Leonard Spector, Juliette Kayyem
June 28th SECURING THE HOMELAND
Moderator: Bob Kerrey
Panelists: Clark Kent Ervin, C. Stewart Verdery, Jr., Stephen Flynn, William Raisch, Edward Lambert, Jr.
July 11th CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Moderator: Slade Gorton
Panelists: The Hon. Pat Roberts and the Hon. Thomas S. Foley
July 18th CIVIL LIBERTIES AND SECURITY
Moderators: Richard Ben-Veniste and Fred F. Fielding
Panelists: Part I: William Barr, Philip Heymann, Jenny Martinez, Stuart Taylor
Part II: Rep. Christopher Shays, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Rep. Bennie Thompson, Former Rep. Mickey Edwards, The Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell
August 2nd FOREIGN POLICY
Moderator: Lee H. Hamilton
Panelists: A. Elizabeth Jones, Dennis Ross
September 1st WINNING THE STRUGGLE OF IDEAS
Moderator: Thomas H. Kean
September 12th Report Card on Implementation & Press Conference with Former Commissioners
All Unfinished Agenda events take place at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 6th floor auditorium, from 9:30-11:30 a.m., unless otherwise noted.
All events will be televised (most live) on C-SPAN or C-SPAN 2. Please see www.c-span.org for each day's schedule.
Has anyone posted this yet? I haven't heard anyone anywhere mention this!
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.