Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005 12:14 a.m. EDT
Curt Weldon:
Gorelick Aide Blocked Able Danger Testimony
An aide to former Clinton Justice Department official Jamie Gorelick blocked the 9/11 Commission from hearing bombshell testimony about the findings of the elite Able Danger military intelligence team, Rep. Curt Weldon said late Friday.
“The person who debriefed [Able Danger analyst] Scott Philpot was, in fact, the lead staffer for Jamie Gorelick,” Weldon told the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity & Colmes.” “His name was Dieter Snell.”
Weldon contended: “It was Dieter Snell who did not brief the 9/11 Commission. The 9/11 Commissioners were never briefed on Able Danger.”
Gorelick was the lead Democrat on the 9/11 Commission.
Weldon said Able Danger team members have been “gagged” by the Pentagon and by Defense Intelligence Agency leaders who stand to be embarrassed by their revelations.
“The Defense Intelligence Agency has people who were held over from the previous administration,” he told Fox News. “They were there when [Able Danger] brought forward this information.”
The Pennsylvania Republican said that besides identifying Atta and three other 9/11 hijackers as terrorist threats, Able Danger had warned of the impending attack on the U.S.S. Cole.
“Two weeks before the attack on the U.S.S. Cole,” he told “Hannity & Colmes, “they sensed that something was about to happen in Yemen. Two days before the attack on the Cole - and the arrival of the Cole in harbor - they warned that the ship should not enter the harbor.”
“This information needs to be brought to the public,” Weldon said. “We lost 3,000 people here. This cannot be covered up. This is 3,000 times worse than Watergate.”
And remember she also erected a wall within the FBI forbidding the criminal agents from sharing info with counterintelligence.
IMO if there is anyone responsible for 9/11, Jamie Gorelict comes closest.
It was inexplicable to me at the time that Gorelick was allowed to be a member of that committee. I thought she should have been called to testify, as a possibly hostile witness.