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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Don't forget that Bush originally picked Henry Kissinger to head up the Commission.
Kean replaced Kissinger.
I may be mistaken, but I thought the staffers filtered all the info first. Maybe Kean didn't know.
Not so much a theory as an end result....
We know the result...
We know how it transpired...
We know who put those barriers in place....
Deducing the truth is pretty simple...it's not rocket science...heh..it's political science....practiced by mad scientists....
These people where more worried about covering their ass than ANYTHING else......period...
As I said...we know the resulting reality born of previous decisions...
Proving intent of malice and conspiracy in those decisions is another matter...
IMO her phone call to Weldon is a good clue that she is doing just that!
:HIGH PRIEST of Gov Cover-Up, Arlin Specter.
You've got a LONG memory, tennmountainman! Ah, yes--Attorney Specter's Kollege of Grassy Knollege. Another story we'll probably never get to the bottom of.
Amazing about the SR-71, my favorite aircraft. Reconnaissance I get, but what were they going to strike with?
BTW, you bring to mind another Pentagon scandal: the retirement of the Blackbird.
That makes no sense. W has a lot of things higher on his agenda than protecting Billary. And HRC is not Rumsfeld's boss!
That makes no sense. W has a lot of things higher on his agenda than protecting Billary. And HRC is not Rumsfeld's boss!
Would y'all let me in on it? A little thick here...
bttt
The CIA has a real tiresome way of hiring "assets" who turn out to be liabilities.
Reality check here: George Sr. was head of the CIA for one year, back in the '70s I believe. So what is W supposed to be covering up? I suppose some people (Crim, you listening?) will make much of Dad's term as ambassador to *ahem*china*cough*. Come on--we don't need to go back 25 years!
You think those were "accidents"?
"...and as long as they don't violate the security rules, I am for it."
Rules are made for reasons. The "rules" told these men to delete that info. Rules were used to endanger the Free World, weren't they? In short, rules are no better than the SOB who comes up with them.
Remember the Venona Project? FDR ordered it shut down. Thank God those brave, red-blooded American heroes broke the rules and kept Venona humming along. The witless Stalin-lovers didn't even know about it. Too bad another rule wasn't broken. Too bad those heroes didn't go public with the information they found, including the orders to shut down their project, and step forward in a joint press release with Joe McCarthy.
Maybe that was impossible back then. The Old Media was very, very powerful. But maybe it would have worked, too. I'm not dissing them for keeping quiet. I'm just saying, breaking their 'code of silence' may have been an even better move, in hindsight.
"W has a lot of things higher on his agenda than protecting Billary."
I hope you're right. I'm constantly amazed how Bush has covered Clinton's tail from Day 1 though. He's as loyal to that terrorist-pardoner as he is to MS-13.
"If I were Jamie Gorelick, I would be peeing my pants right now. IMO her phone call to Weldon is a good clue that she is doing just that!"
Ya'think? A phone call out of the blue telling Weldon she's innocent? "Thou doth protest too much."
"Meet the Inlaws."
"There are certain things I can only do with other men."
"Like golf?"
"NO! I'M NOT GAY!"
"Bush appointed Kean to head up the 9/11 commission."
No worries. Making a bad call on who investigates something doesn't look terribly bad. It's the deleted intel that looks bad.
"No worries. Making a bad call on who investigates something doesn't look terribly bad. It's the deleted intel that looks bad."
You are right. However the MSM has to report on that. And you know they won't.
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