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?
MSM is helpless against this TIDAL WAVE!
Looks like Morris was right -- it was a diversion -- bet I heard it at the time and brushed it aside.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1117579/posts
Someone archieved all relevant articles.
Subsection deeper in is the Sandy Berger links.
Not really - it just shows (as if we needed any more showing) the depths of the media's all-out hatred for George Bush, that they would pursue such an obvious non-story with such a vengeance. I think the press hates him even more than the democrats do, and their hate is so intense that it lterally paralyzes them.
Livid they knew nothing about this is what Weldon had to say.
"Breitweiser appeared to me to be rather subdued."
This story can't be fit into the bash-Bush scenario.
Yep. Isn't it amazing how many Klinton operatives have wound up in a burned-out car at the end of a long country road or got an inspiration to jump out of a high window.
Berger shredded the documents. "Accidentally". I kid you not.
Wouldn't it be great if New Yorkers woke up and ousted ms. clinton? Do not believe the Clintons and their minions are enjoying this evening -- bet the phone lines are burning up.
Good question! This is getting more interesting as the evening has progressed.
It seems only fair to have a PUBLIC hearing on this. After all we had to endure the lynching of Justice Thomas' reputation in his confirmation hearings.
Bush didn't feel the need to "obey" the 9/11 committee like the left demanded. It was bogus all along, and Bush knew it. Bush still wanted a real investigation.
Those staffers have no loyalty. They only care about a paycheck. They go from senator to senator and back to congressman -- just to have a job.
My memory on the specifics is hazy, but there were stories out there about Al Qaeda training in Iraq. There was another about Iraqis visiting bin Laden in the Sudan. Can anyone fill in the details?
More like Tabled Danger
John Lehman - where are you? Wake up. There is work to be done here.
Now I have.....
Remember the lady in Arkansas that shot herself through the patio door from the outside and she was inside but they ruled it suicide?
Do believe that Berger better be in hiding because first we had his sentencing delayed until September and now this comes out -- bet Ms. Ex-Co-President is thinking he ratted them out!
I am anxiously awaiting the next installment as well. Puzzle pieces are coming together FINALLY!
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