Kean and Gorelick were covering things up from the beginning.
Posted on 08/13/2005 4:35:41 AM PDT by jimbo123
The 9/11 commission yesterday defended its decision to ignore a Navy officer's report that military spies targeted lead hijacker Mohamed Atta more than a year before the attacks — and claimed the Navy man wasn't "sufficiently credible."
The statement from commission chiefs Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton came after a flip-flop, in which the panel's staff first denied and then admitted it was told Pentagon spies had linked Atta to an al Qaeda cell in New York in 2000.
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"The commission's staff concluded that the officer's account was not sufficiently reliable to warrant revision of the report or further investigation."
A skeptical Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) said the statement does nothing to answer why the Able Danger warning wasn't passed on to the FBI.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I had never heard this. Thanks for the link. I bookmarked to read in it's entirey later. Looks quite interesting.
Just a quick snippet from Peter Lance, author and reporter, on the 9/11 Commission:
As soon as I heard Snell’s name I suspected that what my source had been telling me was true: that the Commission staff was limiting the scope of the investigation and cherry picking evidence.
Snell had been the Assistant U.S. attorney who co-prosecuted Ramzi Yousef for the “Bojinka” case in 1996. In my first book 1000 Years For Revenge I recounted how the Justice Department, during Snell’s tenure, had limited the scope of the Bojinka case.
I think W is a good president, and I voted for him twice and worked very hard on his campaigns, but I will never understand why he does not call Clinton and the Dems to account. If it were simply a matter of not wanting to appear vindictive, I could understand it.
But the problem is that the Clinton influence lingers - and lingered particularly heavily during Bush's first term, because he didn't replace a lot of Clinton's treasonous appointees - and will be with us until Bush gets the guts to have a serious investigation, root out the moles and outright traitors, and deal with them accordingly.
When Jamie Gorelick was appointed to the 911 Commission, that should have raised flags all over the place that it was a fake and a ruse from the beginning. Not one iota of anything but political grandstanding and trying to blame the Bush administration for the massive failures of the Clintoon administration!
"The statement from commission chiefs Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton came after a flip-flop, in which the panel's staff first denied and then admitted it was told Pentagon spies had linked Atta to an al Qaeda cell in New York in 2000."
Members from the commission are caught lieing, first saying they were never told and then changes their story to the Navy isn't "credible".
If they want to see credibility problems, they should look in the mirror.
Holtz
JeffersonRepublic.com
"Send Gorelick to Gitmo"
And we don't mean on a Carnival Cruise, either.
Rep. Curt Weldon said today on Fox News that there are 15 unexamined boxes of documents(!), and now 11 witnesses(!!), (NOT just 1), who are willing to testify under oath.
He also is calling for 9/11 Staffers to be questioned under oath re: their evident negligence, &/or close-mindedness, &/or cover-up behavior, and/or stonewalling.
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That is incredible.. This is getting bigger and bigger by the moment.
Not "historically significant"?
The US military was trying to get 4 of the hijackers arrested over 6 months BEFORE their attack, yet they couldn't pass the info to the FBI because of the policies in place. This isn't "historically significant"?
As far as I'm concerned, the 9/11 Commission Report is now useless. It is CLEAR that this commission was, and still is, only interested in whitewashing and protecting the powerful who's screw ups led to 3,000 Americans being murdered.
Where did Keane and Hamilton get the authority to decide, in absolute secrecy, that a Navy officer's testimony wasn't credible? Compared to who? Richard Clarke?
If Able Danger really did know about Atta, than someone in the Pentagon transition team left a big booby trap for Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld should be really pi$$ed about that.
I came to the conclusion long ago that the Clinton WH and their political operations were run like a criminal syndicate.
At every agency, in every department, were key POLITICAL OPERATIVES....or so called COMPANY MEN. This is how to look at people like Gorelick, Berger, Linsey, O'Leary, Ron Brown, etc etc..and their underlings...the many faceless, nameless lawyers who permeated FBI, CIA, DOD, State Dept, etc. There are also outside COMPANY MEN... Ickes, Blumenthal..etc etc.
All operations were coordinated and operated in a top down flow. This means that operatives like Gorelick and Berger were part of a protocol of passing directives from either CAPO Bubba or CAPO Hillary down through the command chain.
When critical info in the archives had to be destroyed...they went to Sandy. Bruce Linsey would also have sufficed...but he didnt have the top top clearances that Sandy had..(and will have again just in time for Hillarys WH campaign).
Grunts in the security trenches in FBI and CIA who werent part of the 'team' felt threatened and in some cases witheld info from a Clinton WH they didnt trust.
Woolsey figured out the game early on...he quit.
Thanks! That sounds good.
But the appointment of a special prosecutor would sound better.
"THE REPORT OF THE JOINT INQUIRY INTO THE TERRORIST ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 - BY THE HOUSE PEMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE AND THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE OF INTELLIGENCE" is the title of the original Governmental Report. It is dated December 2, 2002. It can be found on the web in its' entirety.
Here are a couple of quotes: "On January 15, 2000, one week after leaving Malaysia, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaff al-Hamzi flew to Los Angeles from Bangkok and settled in the San Diego area."
"Atta returned to Germany from Afghanistan through Pakistan in February 2000. CLAIMING THAT HIS PASSPORT HAD BEEN LOST, Atta obtained a new Egyptian passport in Hamburg in May 2000 and a visa to travel to the US".
"Al-Shehhi had arrived several days earlier".
"Atta and al-Shehhi STAYED IN THE NEW YORK AREA, renting apartments together until the beginning of July." (Then they went to Florida.)
This is the first that I see that acknowledges they were LIVING in the New York area for a while and must be the ABLE intelligence. This should be in "Jamie's Report".
So, we're either going to believe politicians on the 9/11 Commission (which included Gorelick), or I'm supposed to believe a Naval Officer whose background has been investigated nine ways from Sunday and who serves our country for far too little pay and who is backed up by (according to Representative Weldon) at least eight other officers.
Under little-known, but established, US Supreme Court-sanctioned precedent, Jamie Gorelick, as a former Federal bureaucrat, can & should be sued civilly for gross dereliction of duty, for contributory negligence and culpability in 3,000 deaths (& counting), and for gross negligence as the DOJ "Wall of Separation" memo author, which greatly & unconscionably expanded the "letter of the law" to, in effect, protect spies and terrorists.
This in turn may lead to other higher up Clinton Administration officials being revealed as complicit or culpable under discovery, deposition and courtroom testimony.
Certainly the infamous Gorelick DOJ memo was consistent with the highly cautious and overly legalistic approach of the Clinton Administration (& The Clinton White House) toward National Security, espionage, and terrorism issues.
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