Posted on 09/28/2005 9:07:33 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Four years after the nation's deadliest terror attack, evidence is accumulating that a super-secret Pentagon intelligence unit identified the organizer of the Sept. 11 hijackings, Mohamed Atta, as an Al Qaeda operative months before he entered the U.S.
The many investigations of Sept. 11, 2001, have turned up a half-dozen instances in which government agencies possessed information that might have led investigators to some part of the terrorist plot, although in most cases not in time to stop it.
But none of those leads likely would have taken them directly to Atta, the Egyptian architecture student who moved to the U.S. from Germany to take flying lessons and later served as Al Qaeda's U.S. field commander for the attacks.
Had the FBI been alerted to what the Pentagon purportedly knew in early 2000, Atta's name could have been put on a list that would have tagged him as someone to be watched the moment he stepped off a plane in Newark, N.J., in June of that year.
Physical and electronic surveillance of Atta, who lived openly in Florida for more than a year, and who acquired a driver's license and even an FAA pilot's license in his true name, might well have made it possible for the FBI to expose the Sept. 11 plot before the fact.
Atta is presumed to have been at the controls of American Airlines Flight 11 when it struck the north tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
The FBI has reviewed the voluminous records of its extensive Sept. 11 investigation and can find no mention of Atta before Sept. 11, a senior FBI official said. If the Pentagon knew about Atta in 2000 and failed to tell the FBI, the official said, "It could be a problem."
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Well .. you're contradicting yourself when you say this:
"If Bush wants the truth to come out, he can make it happen easily enough. It seems clear to me that he does not."
If Bush does NOT want the truth to come out .. then why did Rumsfeld say that the military witnesses could testify ..??
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"If Bush does NOT want the truth to come out .. then why did Rumsfeld say that the military witnesses could testify ..??"
It appears that there are two different forces at work, and we can't really see what is going on. The latest reports that I read on one of these threads indicated that Specter's people are currently in negotiations with the Defense Department as to exactly what will happen (including whether or not the hearings will be open). While some reports indicated that the hearings have been delayed due to the Jewish New Year, Schaefer's lawyer has indicated that the hearings have been delayed by the Defense Department.
The important thing is, that hopefully the hearings will take place. I'm still worried that they may not.
Soon to be the Gorelick Levy, since she'll undoubtedly chair some Katrina commission...
"When they(dod) originally agreed to allow 5 witnesses to testify maybe they figured that would take all the heat off them. They probably figured the news cycle will ignore what they are doing now which it will,in the msm, but not in the new media. We will hold their feet to the fire as long as it takes."
I hope we can pull it off. I was very heartened to see the Chicago Tribune article. I went to Drudge, and was disappointed to see they that the only article returned when I entered, "Able Danger" into the search was published in August of this year. I suggested that they publish another article in the "News Tip Box."
It would be nice if somebody would do a demonstration in Washington, DC. However, I suppose that would not be covered by the media.
But an attorney for a military intelligence officer who was expected to appear said the Defense Department's refusal to allow such testimony _ not the Jewish holiday _ was the real reason for the delay.
"Soon to be the Gorelick Levy, since she'll undoubtedly chair some Katrina commission..."
extended LOL! Thanks, I needed that.
fair enough. I can't see Rumsfeld being part of the chain of authority that made this decision, but let's see what happens.
Weldon is going to be on Savage again....like in a few mins.
someone should start a live thread
"I actually asked Shaffer on C-Span that question."
Unbelievably cool that you spoke to him.
"I asked him if Hillary might have instructed Gorelick."
The bad thing from our point of view is that this was probably not Hillary's job. It was more likely Bill.
I heard all about it on ABC.....NOT!
BTW, it's Bush's fault.
Could be an understatement.
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