Posted on 11/27/2005, 7:48:13 PM by daler
What did U.S. military know before 9/11? James Rosen, Star Tribune Washington Bureau November 27, 2005 WASHINGTON - A top-secret military program set up six years ago to probe the Al-Qaida terrorist network is provoking fierce new debate about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Military intelligence officers and contractors who ran the clandestine mission, named Able Danger, say that more than a year before the attacks, the operation identified four of the plot's 19 hijackers and produced a chart that fingered ringleader Mohamed Atta. Those claims contradict findings of the 9/11 commission set up by Congress. In its final report last year, the commission spread wide blame for the attacks but concluded that none of the hijackers, some of whom lived in the United States before Sept. 11, had been identified before the tragedy. Now many in Congress want more answers. On Friday, Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., sent Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld a letter signed by a bipartisan group of 246 lawmakers demanding that the program's officers and contractors be allowed to testify in open congressional hearings. "Further refusal ... can only lead us to conclude that the Department of Defense is uncomfortable with the prospect of members of Congress questioning these individuals about the circumstances surrounding Able Danger," the letter said. "This would suggest not a concern for national security, but rather an attempt to prevent potentially embarrassing facts from coming to light." But others in Washington are scoffing at the request for an inquiry.
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Clinton Administration.
If you were a typical, politically ignorant, gullible Star & Sickle reader, what would be your initial reaction to this headline?
The 911 commission was, is , and will always be a joke.
Seems that the "lil caboose that could" is being derailed.
mc
The EASIEST way to link the Clinton administration to this is that Able Danger also uncovered the plot against the USS Cole before the fact.
Clinton got a hummer and people died.
Call me a cynic, but I'm thinking that if the MSM is now reluctantly on to Able Danger, they've figured out Weldon won't be silenced and are going to frame it the way THEY want John Q. Public to perceive things...i.e., it was the incompetent Bush's fault (again).
The headline should be corrected and say : What did the CLINTONS know and cover up before 9-11 ?
Looks like the MST/Rosen didn't get the DNC memo:
Able Danger: Don't Go There
Neither party's leadership wants to touch this,
but it tars Clinton much more dramatically than Bush.
"What did the CLINTONS know and cover up before 9-11 ?"
Why is Hitlery Mum on it?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1529383/posts
So I had to click to find out who are the "others."
Surprise.
The "others" are members of the 9/11 commission.
And not one mention of Jamie Gorelick in the whole article.
Keep going Kristin ............ tell the media about Clinton's "Gorelick's Wall". That's how your husband died.
The fact Clinton toady Gorelick was on the commission says it all ...
I agree. There was no way the commission should have been allowed to keep Gorelick on it.
weegee said: "Clinton got a hummer and people died."
Moanica writhed, people died.
This is an unwelcome attachment. This woman is a communist only interested in making mischief.
bttt
"The Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency ended the computer-data-mining operation in early 2001."
Wonder just how early in 2001 the "computer-data-mining operation" was shut down? Further exactly who was the recipient of the data once it was collected???
BUMP
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