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Pentagon Finds More Who Recall Atta Intel
The Washington Post ^ | September 1, 2005 | Robert Burns

Posted on 09/01/2005 2:46:04 PM PDT by YaYa123

WASHINGTON -- Pentagon officials said Thursday they have found three more people who recall an intelligence chart that identified Sept. 11 mastermind Mohamed Atta as a terrorist one year before the attacks on New York and Washington. But they have been unable to find the chart or other evidence that it existed.

Last month, two military officers, Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and Navy Capt. Scott Philpott, went public with claims that a secret unit code-named Able Danger used data mining _ searching large amounts of data for patterns _ to identify Atta in 2000. Shaffer has said three other Sept. 11 hijackers also were identified.

In recent days Pentagon officials have said they could not yet verify or disprove the assertions by Shaffer and Philpott. On Thursday, four intelligence officials provided the first extensive briefing for reporters on the outcome of their interviews with people associated with Able Danger and their review of documents.

They said they interviewed at least 80 people over a three-week period and found three, besides Philpott and Shaffer, who said they remember seeing a chart that either mentioned Atta by name as an al-Qaida operative or showed his photograph. Four of the five recalled a chart with a pre-9/11 photo of Atta; the other person recalled only a reference to his name

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 911; 911commission; abledanger; alqaeda; atta; binladen; gorelick; gorelickswall; terror; waronterror
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To: YaYa123

A thank you posting bump.


21 posted on 09/01/2005 3:17:00 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: YaYa123
bttt
22 posted on 09/01/2005 3:18:13 PM PDT by nairBResal
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To: YaYa123; All

"... they have been unable to find the chart or other evidence that it existed."


THAT'S A BOLD FACED LIE!! There is a video of a meeting held by Weldon in which the chart is clearly seen.

THE CHART DID EXIST - and even if the democrats ordered it destroyed after 9/11 - to protect their own behinds - it's too late - there is proof it existed and Atta's name is clearly seen on the video.


23 posted on 09/01/2005 3:19:32 PM PDT by CyberAnt (America has the greatest military on the face of the earth.)
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To: Dog
"The other shoe just dropped."

There will be more. Mark Levin read from the AP release and said that the Pentagon "still couldn't find the chart". Weldon has a witness who will 'name names' regarding the destruction of materials under threat of 'jail'. We're talking a centipede with shoes here, Dog....

24 posted on 09/01/2005 3:19:56 PM PDT by eureka! (Hey Lefties: Only 3 and 1/3 more years of W. Hehehehe....)
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To: YaYa123

Thanks for the ping.


25 posted on 09/01/2005 3:20:26 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: eureka!

We need a special prosecutor.


26 posted on 09/01/2005 3:21:01 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla

In due course if (or when) the facts warrant it...


27 posted on 09/01/2005 3:22:26 PM PDT by eureka! (Hey Lefties: Only 3 and 1/3 more years of W. Hehehehe....)
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To: abner; Peach; Fedora; Grampa Dave; STARWISE; justshutupandtakeit; Lancey Howard; Howlin; xzins; ...
Good news!! Momentum is building, sounds like there are more potential witnesses for the SJC hearings, but some real documentation would still be a BIG help.....

fwiw, I've been reading this guy "Captain V" -- a blogger who is supposed to be very well wired into federal security agencies, and he says there are supposed to be several uppper-level people related to AD scurrying for the exits in the near future:
http://voiceofthetaciturn.blogspot.com/2005/08/almost-too-good-to-be-true-update.html

"Update I: Now it may be strictly coincidence (ahem), but I have it on good authority that at least one agency related to the ABLE DANGER controversy is seeing movement at the upper echelons. The #3 executive, the head of a major directorate, and several other seniors are making for the door. Hmmm. Maybe I should have put money down on this after all."
28 posted on 09/01/2005 3:28:12 PM PDT by Enchante
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To: YaYa123

Bump.


29 posted on 09/01/2005 3:28:36 PM PDT by mercy (never again a patsy for Bill Gates - spyware and viri free for over TWO YEARS now)
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To: justshutupandtakeit

AP reports:

Reliable Pentagon sources reported today that 'The dog ate our chart'.

Film at 11.


30 posted on 09/01/2005 3:30:16 PM PDT by headsonpikes (The Liberal Party of Canada are not b*stards - b*stards have mothers!)
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To: YaYa123

bttt


31 posted on 09/01/2005 3:53:27 PM PDT by malia (President Bush - a man of strength!! clinton - a paper tiger!!!!!!!)
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To: Enchante

"Captain V" -- a blogger who is supposed to be very well wired into federal security agencies..."
That's where I sent a URL to you on another post. Voice of the Taciturn. Bump into this thread some time back from another link. One will notice he specifically makes mention that there is a chance that the stuff really did not get "wiped" as so many have purported.


32 posted on 09/01/2005 4:11:05 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: YaYa123

Uh, has the pentagon spoken to Sandy Burgular about the charts??


33 posted on 09/01/2005 4:31:17 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: YaYa123

Lost in Katrina BUMP!


34 posted on 09/01/2005 4:32:19 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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To: msnimje

"Found" is the operative word here, I agree. Under a desk? In a broom closet? Were these guys hiding under a bushel?


35 posted on 09/01/2005 4:33:28 PM PDT by YaYa123
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To: irish guard

this will not go away .this is more important than some army brass or a former pres. after labor day it will begin in ernest. the first sign will be transfers and retirements at the dod. no more cya from the political class.


36 posted on 09/01/2005 4:39:57 PM PDT by fantom
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To: fantom

Do you think people were aware of this before now and were just riding it out until Weldon blew the whistle

or

do you think segments of the Pentagon didn't know and are now realizing that some weird shiite was going on and was buried?


37 posted on 09/01/2005 4:45:37 PM PDT by hansel
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To: GretchenM; Anti-Bubba182; Laverne; qrayjack; spycatcher; VastRWCon; howardl; sgtyork; ...

FYI...


38 posted on 09/01/2005 4:45:57 PM PDT by LucyJo ("I have overcome the world." "Abide in Me." (John 16:33; 15:4)
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To: Enchante

Any inkling as to who these people were and who put them in these positions to begin with?


39 posted on 09/01/2005 5:04:22 PM PDT by nuffsenuff
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To: hansel
I'll bet Rummy didn't know and is ticked off that he was not informed. Behind the scenes and very quietly he is probably demanding all those involved to get on the ball or pay the piper. One thing that will come out in the hearings is that Rummy was never briefed by the outgoing def-sec about ALL the programs that were being run.


It is going to very interesting.

JEDI.
40 posted on 09/01/2005 5:23:23 PM PDT by JediForce (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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