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Posted on 09/20/2005 6:25:39 PM PDT by 4mor3
September 20, 2005 Pentagon Blocks Testimony at Senate Hearing on Terrorist By PHILIP SHENON WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 - The Pentagon said today that it had blocked a group of military officers and intelligence analysts from testifying at an open Congressional hearing about a highly classified military intelligence program that, the officers have said, identified a ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks as a potential terrorist more than a year before the attacks.
The announcement came a day before the officers and intelligence analysts had been scheduled to testify about the program, known as Able Danger, at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Bryan Whitman, a Defense Department spokesman, said in a statement that open testimony about the program "would not be appropriate - we have expressed our security concerns and believe it is simply not possible to discuss Able Danger in any great detail in an open public forum." He offered no other detail on the Pentagon's reasoning in blocking the testimony.
Senator Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Republican who is chairman of the committee, said he was surprised by the Pentagon's decision because "so much of this has already been in the public domain, and I think that the American people need to know what happened here."
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The technology angle is a red herring.
This crap is a contiuation of the 911 SHAM commission. When government investigates government, government covers the ass of government.
A hearing could be done STRICTLY on accountability of people and departments and why no action was taken. There is no need to discuss the minutia of technology or secrets or classified information.
This is more "CYA for Bill Clinton" crap.
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I have said before that it is a possibility Atta may have been a double agent.
bumping your thread. After a good night's sleep, I'm still upset about this one.
Able Danger is nothing more than data mining, and
"data mining" is not some kind of top secret government technology.
With yesterday's action...(the Pentagon barring these witnesses from publically testifying)... there can be no doubt an outrageous cover-up is underway.
Drudge has all but ignored Able Danger, so he doesn't even have this New York Times article highlighted. Weldon is already being attacked as a kook. With no open testimony by direct witnesses, the government will succeed in it's cover-up.
And if Spector doesn't supoena 9-ll Commission members, we can assume he's in on the cover-up.
THE story du jour
I caught it earlier and don't know what to think. I do believe it part of a wider war going on inside the Pentagon.
Thank you for the ping! This is thoroughly disgusting and yet, not one bit surprising.
What a sad state of affairs we live in.
How does Slick rate that the Pentagon comes to his aid?
I'm sick about this, YaYa. And the president's tacit approval to Rumsfeld to shut down testimony. If I said everything I'm thinking, I'd be banned.
Weldon is going to have to push hard and those Able Danger guys are going to have to go out on a pretty huge limb for this to move forward.
And I will never forgive the president for protecting Clinton. So many people tell me it's the president's reverence for the office of the presidency. Well, reverence for the office of the presidency would be to show that we do NOT protect corrupt ex-presidents who were so inept that their inaction DIRECTLY led to 9/11.
This isn't about reverence. It's about protection and it's what politicians do and I'm sick to death of it.
Right. And our spy satellites are just cameras with big lenses.
My military experience leads me to believe there are valid security issues at the heart of this. Rumsfeld has not refused to allow testimony. He has balked at allowing open hearings before the world, including our current enemies who will be looking on and taking detailed notes.
Thank you, I could not have put it more eloquently.
This can only be a coverup by the Pentagon.
If the project was closed and all the 2 terabytes of data collected ordered destroyed; why bother prevent these military officers from testifying about it?
Plus, someone in the DOD pulled the security clearance of one of the officers who corroborated the story -- this is a relalitory move and against the Whistle Blower Laws.
"I agree, securing our methods and our spooks are more important than scoring political points. There might actually be adults in charge and doing the right thing here"
I disagree.
The Pentagons official line is that Atta did not appear in Able Danger.
So why prevent officers from testifying about something that supposely never happened?
If it really was a non-event, there is no risk of classified information being divulged from something that did not exist.
But, the truth is probably that Atta's name was known before Sept 11, and someone is in CYA mode big time now.
Welcome to my nightmare. lol
LOL.
Weldon is already being attacked as a kook.
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I was disappointed to read last weekend that he appeared at a panel presentation with Cynthia McKinney. He needs to keep with a better class of Congressmen.
So who the hell can testify in front of the committee (in public?) Is Curt going to be at the hearings? Is he going to be at the closed door hearings?
Tell me more please! Very intriguing indeed!
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