Able Danger's hidden hand

The Washington Times ^ | August 15, 2005 | Jack Kelly

[Tom Thumbs]

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.

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When the stakes are high enough, unthinkable pressure can be brought to bear against those who could pose a threat to the established order of things.

While I have no knowledge of any such threats being made in this case, it's hard to think of any situation in which the stakes would be significantly higher -- or, the players being bereft of the ability to bring such pressure to bear.

[ovrtaxt]

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.

[ovrtaxt]

And then they let him go with original docs stuffed down his drawers.

DOH!

[Dustbunny]

The problem was...Jamie Gorelick.

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.

[Dustbunny]

Clinton + Reno + Gorelick + Berger + 911 Commission = COVER UP

EXACTLY !!!!!

[dalight]

Memo gate might not have resulted in charges and Senators resigning. Revealing this, probably did help the president win re-election though, because exposed, all of the moves traced out were blunted, though they did try them to the extent they could. And the existence of the memo-gate documents continues to reign in the Dems on the intelligence committee.. because if they act like the plan laid out in these memo's, they can be immediately neutralized. So their best plan had to be shelved and what we are seeing is the 2nd string plan.

[zendari]

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.

[CyberAnt]

Well .. we cannot expect people to be PERFECT. No one is. If we expect perfection .. then we're always going to be disappointed.

[sono]

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 ...

[Mr. Mojo]

I can hope that this gets legs

There was hope for a while, but it died without too much fuss.

[george76]

[Prost1]

And Congressman Curt Weldon was going to get Able Danger to become public.

Looks like someone jerked real hard on the chains.