Posted on 08/11/2005 6:57:35 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Penn., is vowing to find out who in the Clinton administration ordered a group of military intelligence officers not to tell the FBI about critical information on two 9/11 hijackers that was obtained two years before they destroyed the World Trade Center.
"What bothers me is two things," Weldon told WABC Radio's Mark Levin late Wednesday. "I'm told that that they couldn't share this information with the FBI? How far up the chain [of command] did it go? Did it go to the White House? And if so, who ordered it?"
Asked about reports that restrictions on intelligence sharing implemented by Clinton Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick played a role in the disastrous intelligence breakdown, Weldon said: "I think that needs to be investigated."
"There was no reason not to share this information with the FBI," he complained, "except that the firewalls that existed back then were so severe that they wouldn't let these agencies talk to one another."
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...The Bush Administration doesn't want to touch Bubba no matter WHAT he and his henchmen/women did or didn't do to screw the country...
The members of the club protect their own.
What company has Jamie Gorelick on it's board??
Do you know what they sre saying on DU about this?
Insert cricket chirps here.
Check your FReepmail.
9/11 Commission Acknowledges Briefing On Able Danger Tomorrow's New York Times reports that members of the 9/11 Commission reversed themselves and now acknowledge being briefed on the Army's data mining project, Able Danger, prior to the publication of their report to the American people. After over 24 hours of denying that anyone had told the Commission about the secret project, their spokesman now says that commission officials met with a uniformed officer who told them about the identification of Mohammed Atta and three other 9/11 hijackers in 2000, over a year prior to the attacks:
The Sept. 11 commission was warned by a uniformed military officer 10 days before issuing its final report that the account would be incomplete without reference to what he described as a secret military operation that by the summer of 2000 had identified as a potential threat the member of Al Qaeda who would lead the attacks more than a year later, commission officials said on Wednesday. The officials said that the information had not been included in the report because aspects of the officer's account had sounded inconsistent with what the commission knew about that Qaeda member, Mohammed Atta, the plot's leader. ...
The briefing by the military officer is the second known instance in which people on the commission's staff were told by members of the military team about the secret program, called Able Danger.
The meeting, on July 12, 2004, has not been previously disclosed. That it occurred, and that the officer identified Mr. Atta there, were acknowledged by officials of the commission after the congressman, Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania, provided information about it. ...
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.
First we hear that no such meeting occurred. After that, the Commission says one might have occurred in October 2003 but that no one remembered it. Now we find out that the Commission had two meetings where the heard about Able Danger and its identification of Mohammed Atta, including one just before they completed their report. Instead of saying to themselves, "Hey, wait a minute -- this changes the picture substantially," and postponing the report until they could look further into Able Danger, they simply shrugged their shoulders and published what they had.
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Gore-lick's going down....either for this or Fannie Mae, but she's going down. The only thing that will save her is a Hillary Clinton Presidenial win and a pardon.
His name sounds like Sandy Burglar!
The Second Half Of 9/11
Now that the New York Times has printed its confirmation of the Able Danger story and shown that the 9/11 Commission ignored its existence and later lied about being briefed about it, we can turn our attention to another piece of the 9/11 puzzle that the Commission also conveniently overlooked. Over two weeks ago, I posted about the curious case of Mohammed Afroze, the al-Qaeda conspirator who confessed to masterminding a series of attacks on international targets for September 11, 2001, which intended to turn the AQ attack into global warfare. In my Daily Standard column today, I go into more depth about Afroze and his plans:
On the day after the failed July 21 bombings in London, an Indian court in Delhi sentenced Mohammed Afroze to seven years in prison for his participation in a wider plot which had been planned for September 11, 2001. Afroze led another al Qaeda cell which planned to use commercial airlines as missiles to destroy several international targets. The Islamist terrorists intended to send a global message through coordination with the attacks on America. Their plan failed when the terrorists lost their nerve and fled Heathrow.
Afroze and his compatriots from Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Pakistan had planned on flying their Manchester-bound flights into the House of Commons and the Tower Bridge in London. Attacking Parliament would have sent a message to the British government about the continued sanctions on Iraq. Blowing up the Tower Bridge would kill a slew of British civilians, with the intent of terrorizing them into demanding a withdrawal of British troops from the Middle East and a halt to support of American actions in the region.
But Afroze had other targets as part of his plan--and these reveal something much deeper and broader than Galloway and the media wish to contemplate.
The other targets? Australia and India. The latter especially destroys the oft-repeated meme that al-Qaeda's primary motivation comes from Anglo-American occupation in Iraq, or their actions in the first Gulf War. Instead, the aborted attack plans of Afroze show that Osama bin Laden and his gang of terrorists intend on establishing a new Caliphate in Southwest Asia and North Africa, regaining the lands that once fell under Muslim control, and using control of oil to push for global domination.
Interestingly, especially in light of the Able Danger revelations this week, the 9/11 Commission never mentions Mohammed Afroze even a single time, despite his key role in attempting to provide the international half of the attacks on 9/11. The nature of these targets shows that AQ didn't target America exclusively and should have provided at least some context for their consideration. Like Able Danger, however, they either ignored it or deliberately omitted it as not fitting within the predetermined conclusions they desperately wanted to reach.
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I like all the press coverage, few state that the "blunder" occured during the Clinton term. Most have headlines like " 9/11 hijackers id early" Which just gives fuel to the 'Bush missed the warning signs' crowd.
The lefties are good at interlocking directorships. No wonder a lot of corporations are selling this country down the drain (outsourcing, moving plants to Mexico and overseas, publishing anti-American rags, making anti-American films, etc.). There are probably Gore-lick types moled into all these boards.
We've got to break this and other death grips (courts and campuses, for example).
Why can't GWB connect the dots and see all this as clearly as we do? Does he expect us to do ALL the work? He's GOT to do his part of the gig from the top, also.
Go after these treasonous criminals aggressively, Mr. President!
Leni
...The only thing that will save her is a Hillary Clinton Presidenial win and a pardon....
That's on the way.
i'll bet hillary and jamie are really grumpy today
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"i'll bet hillary and jamie are really grumpy today"
You'd be to if you used burlap for a maxi-pad.
The malevolent Karl Rove under the instruction of his handler Dick Chaney secretly planted subliminal messages in Gorelick's New York Times so that she would devise the CIA/FBI firewall that George Bush wanted to cover for his Saudi/Haliburton/Texas oil conspiracies. It was Bush's fault.
Reading between the lines it says, "hey Madame Tarantula, catch"
At least somebody is willing to steup up to the plate. I can't imagine anyone coming from that house of peacocks (senate) doing so. And the Bush administration has seen fit to cover up Clinton's crimes in the interest of all "getting along".
Nope, it was a slick move by the Slick One. Making the war on terror a criminal matter rather than a political and military one allowed them to hide the evidence of what they were doing. If this information had been turned over to the FBI and a criminal trial ensued, against the Muslims not the Democrats, the classified information would have been subject to discovery by the Muslims' defense attorneys. We could not afford to be sharing our intelligence with the enemy, thus "the wall".
The true purpose was to shield the Democrats lack of response to the terror attacks on us. In fact, with the war in the Balkins and the suck up to Arafat we seemed to be doing all we could to help the Islamists. Probably all in Slick's effort to get the discredited Nobel Peace Prize and, therefore, a legacy of more than a blue dress, a sink, multiple rapes and incidences of adultery.
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