"What did you know, Commissioner Ben Veniste, and when did you know it?"
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Posted on 08/11/2005 12:43:23 PM PDT by Pikamax
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Sept. 11 commission knew military intelligence officials had identified lead hijacker Mohamed Atta as a member of al-Qaida who might be part of U.S.-based terror cell more than a year before the terror attacks but decided not to include that in its final report, a spokesman acknowledged Thursday.
Al Felzenberg, who had been the commission's chief spokesman, said Tuesday the panel was unaware of intelligence specifically naming Atta. But he said subsequent information provided Wednesday confirmed that the commission had been aware of the intelligence.
It did not make it into the final report because the information was not consistent with what the commission knew about Atta's whereabouts before the attacks, Felzenberg said. The commission has gone out of existence, although a follow-up organization called the 9/11 Public Discourse Project continues to follow closely the Bush administration's progress in implementing their recommendations.
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Lets see, there is another possible reason that it did not make it into the final report...."Conflict of interest" Gorelick was on the committee.
Nothing to see here folks.. move along....
/sarc
Sounds like a case of volitional amnesia.
Jamie Gorlick strikes again ~ Bump!
What's to keep someone in Congress from calling Gorelick up to testify?
Gosh! Sounds familiar. What was that John Kerry answer? Can't remember the quote.
Gorelick was our top person on keeping information from getting where it needed to go. Apparently she continued that role to the hilt on this commission.
Clinton to Janet Sterno, Sterno to Gorelick, Gorelick to Gorelick, Gorelick to Berger.
Atta. Prague.
May have been an errant sighting, but here we have another instance of a potential sighting denied because it doesn't fit a timeline reliant on accurate and efficient transportation/border records. And omits the possibility of travelling under a different name.
This needs a special prosecutor.
Welcome, America, to your kakistocracy.
Time to drain the D.C. swamp in 2006.
(Thanks to Lee Rodgers of KSFO for remembering a word for what we got.)
It ain't your grandfather's democracy no more. It ain't the "greatest generation's" America. It's post-America I guess. Right, Ms Gorelicker (sp)?
It must be a weighty thing to have the deaths of 3000 Americans on your head. Surely she must be wanting to unburden herself.
I suspect she'll be on Oprah before she's on Capitol Hill
Well Freeperville and the Blogs should put this very lame excuse to death quickly so we can get on to the next cover up try. We are supposed to blindly accept the whereabouts of Atta et al as being a more important fact than the known existence of an al-Queda cell in the U.S. prior to 9/11 that included 4 of the terrorists. Give me a frigg'n break.
A creature of volitional unconsciousness?
She'd just lie --
Carolyn
I think we need a 9/11 (2) hearing to look into the 9/11 (1) hearing. First up Jamie Gorlick
This is for obvious cover for Gorelick and the like. Despicable.
If she lies, then she can go to jail.
Gorelick is a criminal on so many levels.
So....the commission lied? Sakes.
So they had a pre-determined outcome and Able Danger information didn't fit how they wanted the report to read.
And another freeper heard a radio call today. It was a 9/11 family member who said that Gorelick and another Commission staffer controlled all the information that got presented to the full Commission. For Gorelick, it's all about damage control and protecting the Clinton legacy. And that's what Sandy Berger's stuffing documents into his pants was all about too.
Gorelick is an outright no-exaggeration traitor.
She wanted to be DCI. Thank God THAT never happened.
I fervently hope she has a suddent and unexpected "canoeing accident."
True, but that's hard to prove.
If someone really got tough with her, she'd just cry.
Then the Republicans would be in a world of hurt with the media and the soccer moms.
ITA
That commission should never have been put up in the first place.
Berger's job was to hide the Iraq connection to OKC.
The Republicans certainly should never have agreed to make it a 50/50 "bipartisan" commission, but they never fail to disappoint.
NYT and now AP. This has officially hit the fan. Hope it lands on the right faces.
Oooooh. this might be an interesting season after all...
In a "real' world, Gorelick should be face down with a boot on the back of her neck and a dozen weapons drawn on her skanky, liberal ..........you know what....
"the information was not consistent with what the commission knew about Atta's whereabouts before the attacks,"
What the commission knew about Atta's whereabouts is obviously wrong. Whitewash of the Clinton Administration.
This reminds me of the contention that Atta never went to Prague in August of 2001 - despite the insistence of the Czech government that he was there.
Gorelick not only built the "wall" between the intelligence agencies...she built the "wall" between the information and the 9/11 commission's findings...
Does everyone believe these 9/11 commissioners that say they have NEVER heard of this...and had no knowledge before now?
Rep. Weldon keeps saying that he believe Roemer and Lehman when they say that....but I don't know...they were so "point their finger and shake it" at Bush for not implementing their changes faster, that none of them are gonna want a "finger pointed and shook at them" for not doing a good thorough enough job....
Agreed
Wouldn’t it be nice if Saddam finally fessed-up and admitted the Iraqi involvement in OKC and 9-11 and called Clinton a big fat liar? Hey I can dream can’t I?
Try to imagine if these geniuses on the 9/11 Commission had been running the Warren Commission.
We would have had not only a magic bullet that hit Kennedy, zig-zagged, hit Texas Governor John Connelly, and then exited through Connelly's wrist, the bullet would have been fired by an unlucky hunter somewhere near Shreveport, bounced off a tree, tumbled through the air, passed through the Texas School Book Depository, out the window, just missing Lee Harvey Oswald as he finished up his box lunch of fried chicken and sody pop.
"For Gorelick, it's all about damage control and protecting the Clinton legacy. And that's what Sandy Berger's stuffing documents into his pants was all about too."
I agree with you completely on both points.
I find it very interesting that this article makes no mention of the fact that this occurred during the Clintoon administration and that Gore-licker was on the committee. It's almost like the Times was forced to publish it because the information is becoming too wide spread and being reported by many other sources. They are very careful to not embarrass the previous administration, and leave it up to the reader to figure it out for themselves. They even make a mention of the Bush administration in an effort to coerce the reader into thinking it's a Bush issue, because the committee was established while was president. Simply f%#*ing amazing.
LOL! The probability of equal justice is exactly zero. Gorelick won't be punished for her actions as an official of the US Federal government, any more than Ashcroft would be, or any more than Sandy Berger and Janet Reno would be.
At this point in the play-out of 9/11, the ramifications are purely political. Be careful who you vote for.
Also, recall that Sandy Berger was stuffing documents into his pants while talking to Clinton's lawyer on his cell phone.
"What did you know, Commissioner Ben Veniste, and when did you know it?"
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Many people saw the 9/11 Commission as a sham from the get-go. I'll "go out on a limb" and predict that the reputation of the 9/11 Commission will be protected by the present administration. That is, reasonable excuses will be offered for excluding pre-9/11 knowledge of Atta from public dialog.
The Wall Street Journal editorially brushed off the Sandy Burglar-Clinton coverup story. Maybe they'll have a closer look now.
Snell was one of the guys the Able Danger ops took information to on the 9/11 Commission.
Author Peter Lance later calls Snell “one of the fixers, hired early on to sanitize the Commission's final report.” Lance says Snell ignored evidence presented to the Commission that shows direct ties between the Bojinka plot and 9/11, and in so doing covers up Snell's own role in the failure to make more use of evidence learned from Murad and other Bojinka plotters. [FrontPage Magazine, 1/27/05]
Get a load of this.
Dietrich Snell is one of the guys approached by Able Danger operatives.
Author Peter Lance later calls Snell “one of the fixers, hired early on to sanitize the Commission's final report.” Lance says Snell ignored evidence presented to the Commission that shows direct ties between the Bojinka plot and 9/11, and in so doing covers up Snell's own role in the failure to make more use of evidence learned from Murad and other Bojinka plotters. [FrontPage Magazine, 1/27/05]
Get a load of this.
Dietrich Snell is one of the guys approached by Able Danger operatives.
Author Peter Lance later calls Snell “one of the fixers, hired early on to sanitize the Commission's final report.” Lance says Snell ignored evidence presented to the Commission that shows direct ties between the Bojinka plot and 9/11, and in so doing covers up Snell's own role in the failure to make more use of evidence learned from Murad and other Bojinka plotters. [FrontPage Magazine, 1/27/05]
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