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What Did U.S. Military Know Before 9-11?
Minneapolis Star and Sickle ^ | November 27,2005 | James Rosen

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 109th; 911commission; abledanger; atta; clintonlegacy; dod; prewarintelligence; weldon
Two words (notably) missing from this article:

Clinton Administration.

If you were a typical, politically ignorant, gullible Star & Sickle reader, what would be your initial reaction to this headline?

1 posted on 11/27/2005, 7:48:13 PM by daler
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To: daler
DUH Alert!
2 posted on 11/27/2005, 7:50:29 PM by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: daler

The 911 commission was, is , and will always be a joke.


3 posted on 11/27/2005, 7:54:20 PM by sgtbono2002
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To: daler

Seems that the "lil caboose that could" is being derailed.

mc


4 posted on 11/27/2005, 8:00:15 PM by mcshot (I BELIEVE CONGRESSMAN WELDON. Yup! shouting it out!)
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To: daler

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.


5 posted on 11/27/2005, 8:03:51 PM by weegee (Christmas - the holiday that dare not speak its name.)
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To: mcshot

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).


6 posted on 11/27/2005, 8:16:58 PM by daler
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To: daler

The headline should be corrected and say : What did the CLINTONS know and cover up before 9-11 ?


7 posted on 11/27/2005, 8:18:00 PM by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: daler

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.


8 posted on 11/27/2005, 8:18:52 PM by Boundless
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To: Prophet in the wilderness

"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


9 posted on 11/27/2005, 8:36:04 PM by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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To: sure_fine
I guess she is trying to " SHEEPLE " pull the wool over peoples eyes in her scams and tricks to the white house, and she does not want to say anything to incriminate herself.
It's amazing how the MSM/Liberals/Democrat won't call Hillary on her " MUMS THE WORD ACT " but, when Sam Alito goes in front of Congress for his confirmation, the MSM/Liberals/Democrats will be all shrilling and screeching if Sam Alito does not answer questions like Ginsberg did in her conformation hearings..... the hypocrisy is astounding.
10 posted on 11/27/2005, 8:53:43 PM by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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But others in Washington are scoffing at the request for an inquiry.

So I had to click to find out who are the "others."

Surprise.

The "others" are members of the 9/11 commission.

11 posted on 11/27/2005, 9:02:31 PM by WilliamofCarmichael (Move over Henny Youngman.. please! "The most trusted news source." CNN)
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To: daler

And not one mention of Jamie Gorelick in the whole article.


12 posted on 11/27/2005, 9:22:25 PM by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
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To: daler
Kristin Breitweiser, a New Jersey woman whose husband died in the World Trade Center during the attacks, said she and other relatives of some of the 2,986 Sept. 11 victims have met with the military officers who worked on Able Danger. The Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency ended the computer-data-mining operation in early 2001. "It's very upsetting to hear people tell you that your husband and the father of your children didn't have to die, because we had information to stop the attacks," Breitweiser said in an interview.

Keep going Kristin ............ tell the media about Clinton's "Gorelick's Wall". That's how your husband died.

13 posted on 11/28/2005, 10:38:23 AM by beyond the sea (Murtha: Redeployment - What .......Surrender? // “Victory is not a strategy”)
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To: sgtbono2002
The 911 commission was, is , and will always be a joke.

The fact Clinton toady Gorelick was on the commission says it all ...

14 posted on 11/28/2005, 10:46:14 AM by BluH2o
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To: BluH2o

I agree. There was no way the commission should have been allowed to keep Gorelick on it.


15 posted on 11/28/2005, 1:08:59 PM by sgtbono2002
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To: weegee

weegee said: "Clinton got a hummer and people died."

Moanica writhed, people died.


16 posted on 11/28/2005, 1:54:19 PM by DrC
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Kristin Breitweiser, a New Jersey woman whose husband died in the World Trade Center during the attacks, said she and other relatives of some of the 2,986 Sept. 11 victims have met with the military officers who worked on Able Danger. The Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency ended the computer-data-mining operation in early 2001.

This is an unwelcome attachment. This woman is a communist only interested in making mischief.

17 posted on 12/5/2005, 7:03:19 AM by thegreatbeast (Quid lucrum istic mihi est?)
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To: daler

bttt


18 posted on 12/5/2005, 7:05:16 AM by nopardons
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"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???


19 posted on 12/5/2005, 7:09:27 AM by Just mythoughts
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To: daler

BUMP


20 posted on 12/6/2005, 8:20:07 AM by AnimalLover ( ((Are there special rules and regulations for the big guys?)))
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