Posted on 08/15/2005 4:10:28 PM PDT by george76
The report of the September 11 Commission, once a best seller and hailed by the news media as the definitive word on the subject, must now be moved to the fiction shelves.
The commission concluded...the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon couldn't have been prevented.
Able Danger has changed all of that.
The problem was...Jamie Gorelick.
What may be a bigger scandal is that the staff of the September 11 Commission knew of Able Danger and what it had found, but made no mention of it in its report. This is as if the commission that investigated the attack on Pearl Harbor had written its final report without mentioning the Japanese.
When the story broke Lee Hamilton denied the commission had ever been informed of Able Danger...
"Had we learned of it, obviously it would have been a major focus of our investigation."
Mr. Hamilton later changed his tune...
Sandy Berger stole classified documents and destroyed some...Was he removing references to Able Danger? Someone should ask him before he is sentenced next month.
The dispute over Atta's whereabouts in Prague on April 9, 2001, to meet with Samir al Ani, an Iraqi intelligence officer.
Czech intelligence insists he was. Able Danger had information supporting the Czechs.
But acknowledging that possibility would leave open the likelihood that Saddam's regime was involved in the September 11 attacks. And that would have been as uncomfortable for Democrats as the revelation that September 11 could have been prevented if it hadn't been for the Clinton administration's wall of separation.
The September 11 Commission wrote history as it wanted it to be, not as it was. The real history of what happened that terrible September day has yet to be written.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
What makes me uneasy is that it is being ignored by the ones that I would think would be going after it. Those same ones would be trashing Weldon if he was just crying wolf.
But to just ignore it makes me say hummmmm. What's up with that?
Medved has ignored it also, he has great insight and I think good contacts.
He said those things as he was reinstalling him into that position at a big ceremony-- AFTER 911 had happened. (Forgive me, I can't remember what the specific event was.)
He had the opportunity to get a new CIA director at the time. (Thank God for Goss, BTW) But he kept Tenet in there for four more years.
Please don't try to excuse these mistakes. What about, as an example, Kennedy and his big, stupid education bill a few years back? Naive is the kindest way I can characterize Bush's approach to these kinds of things. Others are not so forgiving, and I don't necesssarily disagree with them.
And then they let him go with original docs stuffed down his drawers.
DOH!
Talk about treason, this woman and the Clinton Administration is responsible for 9/11 by effectively making it impossible for 9/11 to be avoided. Almost as though they had hoped something like 9/11 would happen during Clinton's term.
EXACTLY !!!!!
Because if Bush gets involved the liberals will spin it as Bush deflecting the 911 blame?
Weldon is doing a fine job and this will soon bring the Clinton administration down.
Well .. we cannot expect people to be PERFECT. No one is. If we expect perfection .. then we're always going to be disappointed.
I feel we need to wait a bit more to see what members of the Able Danger team have to say. Thus far, Rep Weldon is the only real source here. Relying on anonymous sources puts this story in the same league as other "gates." And as we all know, the gate swings both ways. Patience, Grasshopper ...
There was hope for a while, but it died without too much fuss.
And Congressman Curt Weldon was going to get Able Danger to become public.
Looks like someone jerked real hard on the chains.
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