Blinks and winkson Able Danger
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If you want to know everything wrong with the September 11 Commission in a single soundbite, consider what its official spokesman, Al Felzenberg, said last Wednesday: "There was no way that Atta could have been in the United States at that time, which is why the staff didn't give this tremendous weight when they were writing the report. This information was not meshing with the other information that we had."
In fairness to Mr. Felzenberg, he was having a bad week, and a hard time staying on top of the commission's ever-shifting version of events. A few days earlier it had emerged that a group from Special Operations Command claimed to have fingered Mohamed Atta -- the guy who ploughed Flight 11 into the first World Trade Center tower -- well more than a year before September 11, 2001. Or as the Associated Press puts it: "A classified military intelligence unit called 'Able Danger' identified Atta and three other hijackers in 1999 as potential members of a terrorist cell in New York City."
When the story broke, the commissioners denied they knew anything about "Able Danger." Then they remembered they had known about it but had concluded it was no big deal and "decided not to include that in its final report."
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If it was, I didn't see it. Thanks for the snip. :-)