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NYT: 9/11 Commission's Staff Rejected Report on Early Identification of Chief Hijacker
New York Times ^ | August 11, 2005 | DOUGLAS JEHL and PHILIP SHENON

Posted on 08/11/2005 5:54:43 AM PDT by OESY

...Al Felzenberg, who served as the commission's chief spokesman, said earlier this week that staff members who were briefed about Able Danger at a first meeting, in October 2003, did not remember hearing anything about Mr. Atta or an American terrorist cell. On Wednesday, however, Mr. Felzenberg said the uniformed officer who briefed two staff members in July 2004 had indeed mentioned Mr. Atta....

Mr. Felzenberg said the commission's staff remained convinced that the information provided by the military officer in the July 2004 briefing was inaccurate in a significant way....

Mr. Felzenberg said staff investigators had become wary of the officer because he argued that Able Danger had identified Mr. Atta, an Egyptian, as having been in the United States in late 1999 or early 2000. The investigators knew this was impossible, Mr. Felzenberg said, since travel records confirmed that he had not entered the United States until June 2000.

"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," Mr. Felzenberg said. "This information was not meshing with the other information that we had."

But Russell Caso, Mr. Weldon's chief of staff, said that "while the dates may not have meshed" with the commission's information, the central element of the officer's claim was that "Mohammed Atta was identified as being tied to Al Qaeda and a Brooklyn cell more than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, and that should have warranted further investigation by the commission."

Mr. Caso: "If Mohammed Atta was identified by the Able Danger project, why didn't the Department of Defense provide that information to the F.B.I.?"

Mr. Felzenberg confirmed an account by Mr. Weldon's staff that the briefing... had been conducted....

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; 911commission; 911coverup; abledanger; atta; felzenberg; gorelick; jamiegorelick; pentagon; weldon
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To: mewzilla

They'll only lie under oath anyway. The GOP leadership will leave Weldon hanging out to dry to look like a kook. They are truly gutless.


21 posted on 08/11/2005 6:09:20 AM PDT by Ron in Acreage (It's the borders stupid! "ALLEN IN 08")
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To: mainepatsfan; All
Ever wonder why Gorelick erected the wall in the first place? Check this out!

How Chinagate Led To 9-11

22 posted on 08/11/2005 6:10:18 AM PDT by Quilla
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To: Ron in Acreage
I doubt everyone will :)

And all it takes is one.

23 posted on 08/11/2005 6:10:31 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mainepatsfan

I don't think there are enough voters who would trust this countries national security to a woman. Not even democrats.


24 posted on 08/11/2005 6:11:58 AM PDT by Ron in Acreage (It's the borders stupid! "ALLEN IN 08")
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To: Ron in Acreage
"They'll only lie under oath anyway. The GOP leadership will leave Weldon hanging out to dry to look like a kook. They are truly gutless."

We MUST contact congress about this and DEMAND the testimony of those involved: Gorelick on down..STOP letting the elites protect each other. I hope GW BUSH will allow this to happen but I have been very disappointed so far>> marc rich pardons..nothing, Berger..slap on wrist and oK for security clearance in 3 yrs..China money to clintons..nothing, Bush Sr and Clinton acting like pals ..anyone see a pattern here??
25 posted on 08/11/2005 6:17:26 AM PDT by ConsentofGoverned (A sucker is born every minute..what are the voters?)
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To: ConsentofGoverned

Birds of a feather.....It's disgusting. I wonder why I vote sometimes.


27 posted on 08/11/2005 6:23:14 AM PDT by Ron in Acreage (It's the borders stupid! "ALLEN IN 08")
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To: OldFriend

Tom Kean's GOP credentials should be withdrawn.


28 posted on 08/11/2005 6:23:33 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Scratch a Liberal. Uncover a Fascist)
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To: Ron in Acreage

I just love it when the Dem camp goes "silent". There's a big Dem conference going on somewhere. Yeh, I know...they're on vacation which gives the biased media a "shhhhh" option.


29 posted on 08/11/2005 6:24:58 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: Ron in Acreage
Not exclusively.

The MAIN focus was to blame as much as possible on Bush... and of course, the CIA.

30 posted on 08/11/2005 6:26:53 AM PDT by johnny7 (Racially-profiling since 1963)
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68
So far, there's no proof of a link between the Sandy Burgling and the Able Danger al-Qaeda organization chart. According to April press reports, Sandy burgled five drafts of the Richard Clarke millennium "after action review" from early 2000, and his handwritten notes on those reports. The Able Danger chart including Atta wasn't put together until the summer of 2000. So Sandy couldn't have burgled the chart, unless it was created earlier or the MSM's reporting is otherwise wrong.

Able Danger WAS looking into al-Qaeda links since 1999. So it's possible that information other than the chart could have made its way into the burgled after-action report.
31 posted on 08/11/2005 6:28:34 AM PDT by conservative in nyc
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To: OESY

We need a good cartoon of Jamie plugging the Al-Qaida information flow dike since that appear to be the reality of this US disaster.

Thanks a bunch Gorelick, Reno and Sandy (I have a pants load) Burger.


32 posted on 08/11/2005 6:30:55 AM PDT by rod1
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To: Ron in Acreage

too right. the commission is now proof that it was a set up. How much else was left out because it did not match what one side thought or was willing to tell?


33 posted on 08/11/2005 6:50:16 AM PDT by q_an_a
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To: OESY

NOTHING at CNN.com. That is a statement in itself.

Thankfully, I don't have TV, so I won't be aware if this story's not covered there either. Grrrr....


34 posted on 08/11/2005 6:52:51 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: Ron in Acreage

The GOP leadership will leave Weldon hanging out to dry to look like a kook. They are truly gutless.

They are more interested in protecting their "phoney baloney jobs" than doing what is right for the People.


35 posted on 08/11/2005 6:54:32 AM PDT by toomanygrasshoppers (Freud was wrong. It's all about "Roe v. Wade")
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To: conservativecorner

A couple of points:

1) How can the 911 commissioners claim that they don't remember meeting with DOD officials? Didn't they keep meeting notes, or did they write the entire 911 Report from memory?

2) Why did they choose to delete any references of Able Danger from the report? Why not mention it, even if it went against their other "facts"?

3) Can I get a refund for my purchased copy of the 911 Report, or will they be issuing an addendum that says, "Oh, yeah--there were some military dudes that said they had some info on the 911 hijackers, but it doesn't matter"?


36 posted on 08/11/2005 7:04:40 AM PDT by randog (What the....?!)
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To: OESY

Hmmmm. Summer of 2000, eh? Let's see, who was Jamie Gorelick working for then? The 9/11 commission report was a coverup for slick Willie's lawyers who cleared the path for the hijackers.


37 posted on 08/11/2005 7:22:28 AM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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To: bitt
In essence, Gorelick set up a system that shielded the Clinton Administration from criminal investigations.

The central question in all this can be this: If Gorelick knowlingly set up rules to obstruct investigations of criminal and national security matters, when is she going to be indicted? (We know the answer to this, but I had to ask anyway.)

38 posted on 08/11/2005 7:24:14 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Islam is not a religion, but rather a means of world conquest" - ALAN BURKHART.COM)
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To: bitt

It was a Clinton administration cover up!

Jamie Gorlick led the lying brigade!

Hang 'em High ~ Bump!


39 posted on 08/11/2005 7:32:36 AM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: conservativecorner

Your post #26 has been deleted because it contained more material from the same New York Times article which was excerpted by the original poster of this thread.

The New York Times is an excerpt and link only site. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1111944/posts

Please do not attempt to bypass copyright restrictions by completing more or all of the story in a response.

Thank you.


40 posted on 08/11/2005 7:37:47 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator
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