Posted on 08/11/2005 5:57:46 PM PDT by TonyInOhio
It behaved disgracefully and in a nakedly partisan fashion, with former officials of the Clinton administration attempting to use the platform to damage the president's reelection chances. Then, after months of ludicrous conduct, out of nowhere came the brilliantly conceived and written report that set a new standard of eloquence and coherence for government documents, became a major bestseller and redeemed the commission's reputation.
Well, that didn't last long.
In a story filed at 7:10 PM, the Associated Press is now confirming all the particulars of what will now forever be called the Able Danger disaster. The 9/11 Commission staff did hear about intelligence-gathering efforts that hit pay dirt on the whereabouts of Mohammed Atta -- in 1999 -- and deliberately chose to omit word of those efforts.
And why? Because to do so might upset the timeline the Commission had established on Atta.
And why is that significant? Because the Mohammed Atta timeline established by the Commission pointedly insisted Atta did not meet with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague.
And why is that significant? Because debunking the Atta-Iraq connection was of vital importance to Democrats, who had become focused almost obsessively on the preposterous notion that there was no relation whatever between Al Qaeda and Iraq -- that Al Qaeda and Iraq might even have been enemies.
I was very skeptical of this Able Danger stuff about Atta, thought it was just sme way Rep. Curt Weldon was trying to sell a book. No longer. This is clearly becoming the biggest story of the summer -- the fact that, as Andy McCarthy alluded to, the "intelligence wall" set up by 9/11 Commissioner Jamie Gorelick when she was in the Justice Department did, in fact, cause the linchpin of the 9/11 attacks to evade capture by American law enforcement.
So was the staff a) protecting the Atta timeline or b) Jamie Gorelick or c) the Clinton administration or d) itself, because it got hold of the information relatively late and the staff was lazy?
More important, what will co-chairmen Tom (pound his fist on the table) Kean and Lee (look sorrowful) Hamilton do and say in the next 36 hours about this calamity?
"Scary what they accomplished both before 9/11, and in forming and "molding" the commission's findings, isn't it?"
Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton let themselves get rolled by some of the Commission members.
Think this one is going to bring her down as it is woven back through their security lapses. She is going to rue the day she told everyone we were getting two for the price of one as co-Presidents.
Think this is going back to the first WTC, OKC Bombing, and now I am wondering about Waco even more. Waco never made sense especially since Ma Richards was the Governor of TX not President Bush.
Somehow I get the feeling this is all tied together and Reno protected the Clintons from start to finish.
marking my spot
Yeppers...and Ashcroft got excoriated for bringing it up in his testimony, IIRC.
Wait a minute? Those prisoners at Gitmo have standards, ya know? If they got past the obscenity of her name (Gore-lick) they would surely require that she wear a burka?
I think it is as silly as blaming Bush for Atta's presence here in 2001, but a lot of people make those type of connections as "proof" of responsibility.
We can give Clinton the opportunity to apologize for something other than his show apologies for past acts or omissions of other people.
How come Pukin Dog isn't here.
I really LOVE your posts!
Oh, if only....
Ive got some tar any one got a feather pillow they would like to donate?
"they will put there own lies out there...."
Yes they will, but we're dealing in facts.
I find it hard to believe that not one single Repub. on the panel knew about this. The commission was a p.r. handjob for those of us who support these jerks in congress. Weldon's got brass ones, however, for going public...
So, she even admits that she sacrificed our security and the lives of some 3,000 people for the sake of "appearance"?.
She established procedural rules that exceeded the authority she had under the law?
She was worried about "appearance"? This is political correctness gone crazy.
And we hounded Nixon out of office.
The bureaucratic rule-filled world has literally gone mad!
I think you are right -- this is the missing link and I have to wonder if Miller is in jail right now because she knows it is the missing link and why the NY Times jumped on this story because they know they are dirty in all of this.
Now I am beginning to think Ms. Clinton orchestrated with Plame to send her husband to Niger and embarrass the Administration. Remember Clinton on the floor of the Senate waving that newspaper around about what did Bush know and when did he know it? I always thought that was a set-up.
Would this be the same staff members that withheld the Able Danger info from the wise commissioners in the first place?
I now have the names of all the 80 some staff on the 911 commission.
BTW! I hope these staffers are under surveillance at all times when handling the archived material.
If Bush had done what we all wish for, and charged head on into the face of this evil, seeking to indict and convict key people in the previous administration for their crimes and treasons, my guess is he would no longer be President - or alive.
Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor. If you wake up with some house flies buzzing around, swat them. If you wake up in the nest of a King Cobra, move cautiously ... very cautiously.
The Jersey girls probably knew that Gorelick and Berger were destroying the Able Danger documents as well as suppressing the testimony from the final report. The Jersey Girls didn't care about their dead husbands, they only cared about trying to get Kerry elected.
And their ugly mugs on TV. Guess what jersey gals, you were laughed at, you don't represent Americans, you represent ugly foolish people that are stupid liberals and were probably duped by the idiots from the kerry supporters, hahaha........you have had a great loss, we understand that, but if you keep up the goof ball politics........your reputation is sullied, and worthless.
I'm afraid that most politicians are like doctors....they protect their own, even if they know a collegue has murdered a patient. I had hope the Bush administration would blow the lid off what the Clintons did....HA! Maybe Bush thought he had to have the media on his side and since the media loved Clinton then he needed to go easy. Our MSM: NYT, WPO, ABC, CBS, NBC....are all aiding and abetting terrorists, which is why I'm on FR. Thank God for FR! There is still hope.
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