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?
They fought as long as they could. They even tried to blatantly steal the election right in front of everyones eyes. They wanted to control the White house for the coming 9/11 attack so bad they even tried to keep Clinton in office "until all the legal issues blew over." They knew it was coming. They wanted it - bad!
bttt
Thank you - I've been hoping someone would point this out. Your point goes for the rest of the Commission members as well.
The moment Ashcroft revealed the Gorelick Wall info the Commission Co-chairs should have halted the proceedings, Gorelick should have been asked to step-down voluntarily, or removed if she refused to do so, and then she should have been subpoenaed to testify, under oath.
The fact that not one single commissioner called for these steps in the face of Gorelick's screamingly obvious conflict of interest immediately confirmed that the entire 9/11 Commission was nothing but an elaborate whitewash and a fraud.
bttt
You're ... Dithpicable!!
Somebody should be puttin' armatures on CNN, etc. right now; with the spin that's coming we could power all our A/C's down to 68 deg. for the rest of the summer! [Eeeevil Grin!]
bttt
I'm not buying the BS about "concern over the fallout over waco", etc. The Clintoon's motives were purely sinister. It wasn't incompetence, it was purposeful incompetence
Once in a while we lose it, it's part of the insane world we live in. On occaision, some freeper misspells and depending upon the mood, another will pick up on the mistake and include it in another post. 'Series' is a misspell for serious and 'hugh' is a mispell for huge. This paticular 'dig' has been going on for some time, I think it is funny, some freepers think it is childish and annoying - take your pick. I also feel that most of us should lighten up, like I say, it's an insane world and occaisionlly we need to take a deep breath and 'relacks'.
As I understand it, the Czech intelligence community still stands by it's assertion that said meeting did indeed take place in Prague. I've never seen a retraction by the Service anywhere.
If you can update me on that aspect of it, I will stand corrected.
CA....
Haha...howie.....yeaaaarghhhhhh alllahhhhhhhhh!!!
Do you see any links in there to anyone interesting...or of terrorist activity?
I hope Jamie Gorelick is pooping in her pants right now!
LOL!!!!
see #495
Yes, I agree.....and W is also a decent man. But I wonder about some of the Republican senators...it seems they cave all too easily way too often.
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