Posted on 10/23/2005 1:12:49 PM PDT by vadkins
Did Snell debrief Phillpott? Yes. Was he working for Jamie Gorelick? No. Not any more than he was working for Slade Gordon or any other member of the Commission, as opposed to the Commission staff. He was working for Philip Zelikow, the Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission staff who hired him as Senior Counsel.
(Excerpt) Read more at topdog08.com ...
CYA in full-blown action.
Moreover, BJ Klintoon and Sandy the Burglar for certain knew about Able Danger, yet failed to inform the commission. They omitted this because, (and this is just my opinion) the believed that Sandy the Burglar had removed any mention of Able Danger from the National Archives.
What we are seeing here is a smokescreen to try to distract attention from the fact that Able Danger could have quite probably prevented 9/11. The Clintonistas knew all about Able Danger, yet they ignored it AND prevented the FBI from benefitting from the intelligence.
Worked for? How about answered to? I'd say the jury's still out.
"Why would Iraq attack America or use nuclear weapons against us? I'll tell you what I think the real threat [is] and actually has been since 1990 -- it's the threat against Israel."
I'd like to know how Snell came to be working for Eliot Spitzer.
Very interesting.
He was assistant U.S. Attorney under Reno. Perhaps Weldon meant his former position during the Clinton Admin? Would that have made him a subordinate to Gorelick, since she pretty much ran the Dept. of Justice?
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/postelection.html
Go there and text search for Snell. Here's what you will get:
The 9/11 Commission's Prolongation of Earlier Cover-Ups
But Philip Zelikow, Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission, shocked Lance with the news that his information would be taken privately by Commission team leader Dietrich Snell. For in 1996, when he was Assistant U.S. Attorney, Snell himself had helped to prosecute Yousef in the Bojinka trial, in a way that systematically excluded not only Scarpa's testimony but all reference to both KSM and Bojinka II.
As Lance wrote later in Cover Up,
Under objective circumstances, Snell would have made an important witness before the Commission. But in the heavily conflicted world of the Commission staff, he was hired to be one of its senior attorneys and team leaders. [37]
The cover-up Lance wished to discuss with Snell was not over.
[The Commission's] Staff Statement No. 16, co-written by Dietrich Snell, concluded that KSM didn't begin planning the 9/11 attacks until 1996. There was no mention of Yousef's involvement in the plot. . . . If this take on the story were true, it would let the Justice Department and the FBI off the hook for ignoring the evidence presented to them . . . in 1995 -- evidence showing that Yousef and KSM . . . were planning to hijack airliners and fly them into six U.S. buildings . . . including the WTC. [38]
...depends on who's stirring up the mud
Doogle
> What we are seeing here is a smokescreen to try to
> distract attention from the fact that Able Danger
> could have quite probably prevented 9/11.
That's why the Bush Admin isn't lifting the cover-up.
The Clinton Admin is even more worried about people
discovering WHY the Gorelick Wall was built in the
first place. Hint: it wasn't to enable domestic
terrorism (that was just an unfortunate cost of doing
business the Clinton way).
There are a lot of dirty hands on both sides of the aisle and as a whole they're hoping that a partisan population will point fingers at the other side so nothing will get done.
Something else is odd on the comment section of this site: http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/817
"Recently I was reading a few of the AD blog sites with comments and noticed that someone mentioned that whenever they post AD news, their blog site is hit with Chinese bots for days. I would suggest everyone with a blog site to monitor this closely."
Left by LuckyBogey on October 23rd, 2005
I doubt that. Ma Richards would have used it in the Gov. race.
He worked for Gorelick earlier, I believe. And I'll bet the recommendation to hire him for the Commission came from Gore-lick.
My take is Able Danger was doing things that would get the DOD in deep doo-doo. Maybe goes back to some of the scuff-up over the Poindexter project?
Dieter Snell, hmmmmmm, sounds like a little blue eyed clone created by dr. mengela for der furry-her, the cloven footed one, semi-married to the cigar wielding, sink using, disgrace of a pervert that abused a 21 year old intern. Gore-lick, klintoon-lick, boot-lick, what's the difference? These low life scum that corrupted our Country for 8 years continue to pervert the process long after they have left office. I need to go shower.
Wikipedia states that Zelidow was brought into government by Reagan (not Carter)-which is it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_D._Zelikow
Zelikow practiced law in the early 1980s, but he turned toward the field of national security in the mid 1980s. He was adjunct professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California in 1984-1985, and served in three different offices of the U.S. Department of State in the second Reagan administration.
Zelikow joined the National Security Council in the George Herbert Walker Bush administration, at the same time as Condoleezza Rice. Zelikow left the NSC in 1991 and went to Harvard, where from 1991 to 1998 he was Associate Professor of Public Policy and co-director of Harvard's Intelligence and Policy Program.
In 1998 Zelikow moved to the University of Virginia, where he directs the nation's largest center on the American presidency, serves as director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs and, as White Burkett Miller Professor of History, holds an endowed chair.
Philip Zelikow has co-authored many books. He wrote a book with Ernest May on The Kennedy Tapes, and another with Joseph Nye and David King on Why People Don't Trust Government. He wrote Germany Unified and Europe Transformed with Condoleezza Rice.
Prof. Zelikow's area of academic expertise is the creation and maintenance of, in his words, "public myths" or "public presumptions," which he defines as "beliefs (1) thought to be true (although not necessarily known to be true with certainty), and (2) shared in common within the relevant political community." In his academic work and elsewhere he has taken a special interest in what he has called "'searing' or 'molding' events [that] take on 'transcendent' importance and, therefore, retain their power even as the experiencing generation passes from the scene. In the United States, beliefs about the formation of the nation and the Constitution remain powerful today, as do beliefs about slavery and the Civil War. World War II, Vietnam, and the civil rights struggle are more recent examples." He has noted that "a history's narrative power is typically linked to how readers relate to the actions of individuals in the history; if readers cannot make a connection to their own lives, then a history may fail to engage them at all" ("Thinking about Political History," Miller Center Report [Winter 1999], pp. 5-7)
Thanks, my bad.
"Did Snell debrief Phillpott? Yes. Was he working for Jamie Gorelick? No. Not any more than he was working for Slade Gordon or any other member of the Commission, as opposed to the Commission staff. He was working for Philip Zelikow, the Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission staff who hired him as Senior Counsel."
Tempest in a teapot. Weldon got one fact wrong. A not very important fact, as I see it.
""Recently I was reading a few of the AD blog sites with comments and noticed that someone mentioned that whenever they post AD news, their blog site is hit with Chinese bots for days."
#$%*&^% Chinese...Trying to cover their butts, maybe intimidate people.
"Something so big that they can make him cover Clinton's butt and sellout the American people."
Maybe. Or maybe Bush just made a mistake before 9/11 that he does not want to come out.
I do not trust anybody associated with the 9/11 Commission.
That commission needs a full and thorough anal exam.
And then some.......
Oh.... the webs they weave......
agree...So/Too much spinnin' goin' on. :P
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