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Nobody on FR however wants to talk about why the Bush administration accepted this outrage of Gorelick on the Commision. Nor do they wish to speak of why the sickening failure brought to light by Shaffer was allowed to go unremarked by same.

I'm with you. I have been shouting since January 2000 that Bush needs to COMPLETELY disinfect the State Department and the Pentagon. I think Rummy has largely taken care of Clinton's panty-waist Pentagon, but State continues to puss up with communists and Clintonoids like a big ugly zit. For some reason, Bush doesn't have the cajones to clean the place out.

DC is a stagnant poisonous slew of power-whores. It seems no good man can walk among them and not become infected. Sometimes I wish the earth would open up and swallow the entire place. Maybe then we could start over. Tom Clancy had the right idea.

the WaPo has this

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1466367/posts#comment?q=1

Officer Says 2 Others Are Source of His Atta Claims
Washington Post ^ | 8/19/2005 | Dan Eggen

Posted on 08/18/2005 7:47:30 PM PDT by americaprd

The former intelligence officer who says that a Defense Department program identified Mohamed Atta and three other hijackers before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks said yesterday that many of his allegations are not based on his memory but on the recollections of others.

Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, who has been on paid administrative leave from the Defense Intelligence Agency since his security clearance was suspended in March 2004, said in a telephone interview that a Navy officer and a civilian official affiliated with the Able Danger program told him after the attacks that Atta and other hijackers had been included on a chart more than a year earlier.

But because he was not intimately familiar with the names and photographs of suspected terrorists, he did not realize that hijackers were listed until it was alleged to him after the attacks, Shaffer said. All of the charts that could support his claims have disappeared, he said.