Weldon press conference transcript (The Able Danger Data Still Exists!)

Able Danger Blog ^ | 2/14/2006 | TopDog08

[vadkins]

Rep. Curt Weldon: I've learned some additional things that are new. You saw the Arlen Specter hearing in Judiciary that occurred in September. It's very troubling to me that it appears as though the DOD witness did not tell the truth. We had testimony that all of the Able Danger data-mining material was destroyed. I now know that that's not the case. In fact, I now know there's data still available. And I am in contact with people who are still able to data mining runs on pre-9/11 data. In those data runs that are now being done today, in spite of what DOD said, I have 13 hits on Mohammed Atta, spelled Mu and Mo. Not Mohammed Attif, not Mohammed Attel; Mohammed Atta. Thirteen times we have hits in the data that's still available, that we were told was destroyed. That was pre-9/11 data, where Mohammed Atta's name was spelled two different ways, but it was Mohammed Atta.

[vadkins]

Hold on to your hats for the Able Danger hearing tomorrow (Wed.) at 2:30 PM!

[kajingawd]

for the benefit of the american people, i hope everything comes out that should come out.

[ovrtaxt]

Good evening, Vai. Here we go again...

bttt!

[Cicero]

I hope we can keep the headline on the sidebar. These Able Danger snippets are extremely important, and they are hardly reported anywhere else.

[vadkins]

Yes, we all meet again. I think we need some kind of closure on this issue.

[SittinYonder]

I'm sure both of you have seen this, but pinging just in case.

[Coop]

Let's keep our fingers crossed that this time it gets some well deserved media traction. (Note that I'm not asking anyone to hold his/her breath...)

[Carry_Okie]

Hopefully it won't be gone by tomorrow.

[ovrtaxt]

Closure? lol right...


This baby is just getting started! I can hear the rats scraping around in the walls....

[Txsleuth]

I tried to listen to some of the testimony today on C-span radio...but, I couldn't follow well, having to be in and out..

I know that the "whistleblowers" and "press shield" were words that were mentioned frequently.

[Marine_Uncle]

Hopefully these hearings and what has preceeded it in the past half year or so will bear fruit. Washington must be jared into realizing effective change is in order to strengthen all our intel orgs..

[MizSterious]

I have to be away from the teevee tomorrow, so hoping someone will report. It will probably have to be Freepers, because the media is more concerned with the urgent matter of "how dare someone not call the media before they call the doctor if someone is shot."

[Boot Hill]

Able Danger bump

[satchmodog9]

I'm sure the MSM will keep pounding this Cheney crap and ignore this.

[trooprally]

MSM makes being indignant so easy when it hurts Bush and our troops. It will be interesting to see how long this will take to be even printed on the back page.

[antceecee]

You've got that right... nothing to see here, but on the otherhand let's count how many buckshot they dig out of Cheney's "victim"!
It's also interesting how this Cheney story has helped to squelch other stories as well: The Dems disgraceful behaviour at the King funeral, Al Gore's treasonous behaviour overseas...

[CyberAnt]

I want Jamie Gorelick disgraced and outed for destroying portions of this information. I want her secret clearance removed - which would keep her from holding any govt office in the future.

She did it to protect Bubba .. and she's continuing to do it to protect Hillary - who would appoint her as Attorney General - what a nightmare that would be.

[dickmc]

Not listed here at http://www.capitolhearings.org/ which is where you can pickup up streaming video of Senate Hearings.

However this is listed on the house site at http://www.house.gov/hasc/schedules/


2:30pm - 2118 Rayburn - Open, will Close

The Strategic Forces Subcommittee, joint with the Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee will meet to receive testimony on the Able Danger program.

Witnesses:

* Dr. Stephen Cambone, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
* Mr. Erik Kleinsmith, Defense contractor
* Mr. Tony Shaffer, Department of Defense employee
* Mr. J.D. Smith, Defense contractor

Nothing listed on Cspan.

Anyone know how to get the hearing????

[Stellar Dendrite]

able danger ping!!!!!

[Stellar Dendrite]

ping

[fallujah-nuker]

[eyespysomething]

Thanks, but I missed your ping, I was just reading the thread.

GMTA

[VOA]

now we konw what WON'T be on news channels tomorrow.
(well, maybe FOX might give a snippet)

[strategofr]

Glad to see it is still going. I had a feeling it was over.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[Peach]

2:30 today; I'll be there. Thanks for the ping.

[Coop]

Bump and a request to ping me to today's Able Danger thread, if it's not atop a major sidebar. Thanks.

[Peach]

Will do; I just wrote a note so hopefully I won't forget.

[Coop]

Thank you

[beyond the sea]

I hope we can keep the headline on the sidebar. These Able Danger snippets are extremely important, and they are hardly reported anywhere else. -----

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DITTO

[bobsunshine]

AJ Strata has a very good update on the Weldon's press conference and a good analysis and history of Able Danger.

http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/1341

[mewzilla]

Weldon was just on FNC. He just reported that Dietrich Snell was supposed to testify before the committee today.

Guess why he won't be?

NYS AG and gubernatorial wannabe, Eliot Spitzer, the guy who just happens to be Snell's boss now, stopped him.

Why'd ya do that Eliot?

[rodguy911]

The story is just now beginning to hit the msm, but barely. FNC on F&F just gave Weldon a whole three minutes to tell the update. That's why t.v. is basically useless in getting major stories out.
Let's hope Moncia Crowley or someone of her caliber can give the hour or so it will take after today to do a more formal update.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

.

This story was just nicely covered in Los Angeles on KTLA Channel 5's Morning News, including mentioning the CLINTON White House's knowing of a impending terrorist attack on our ships in Yemen 2 full weeks in advance.

Now again, WHY was there a terrorist attempt to 'Sink the COLE' on the very evening before AL GORE was scheduled tp lose his 2nd Presidential Debate in a row..?

A TV Debate that came within an eyelash of being canceled anyway out of respect for our newly dead American Sailors on a USS COLE that ended up not sinking like it was supposed to?

The CLINTON Lifetime M.O. of..

'It's the TV, Stupid, no matter WHO pays for it'

...again at work, perhaps..?


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[mware]

Check this out Tony. What is up with that????

Weldon was just on FNC. He just reported that Dietrich Snell was supposed to testify before the committee today. Guess why he won't be?

NYS AG and gubernatorial wannabe, Eliot Spitzer, the guy who just happens to be Snell's boss now, stopped him.

Why'd ya do that Eliot?

[mewzilla]

Why did Spitzer hire Snell in the first place?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[ovrtaxt]

And a Democrat! Gosh, the latest couple of MSM stories were blaming the Bush Admin for Able Danger!

Buncha lying bastards. Looks like the DC elite are circling the wagons again...

[Tribune7]

ping

[ovrtaxt]

Look at this. Spitzer is a signer on this petition. WHAT A HYPOCRITE!!!

http://www.justicefor911.org/

[mewzilla]

Hypocrite and worse. Does Spitzer even have a legal leg to stand on in this case? I'll tell you this, Eliot has stepped in it now, in any case. Spitzer, you are toast.

[stocksthatgoup]

Seems to me 'Able Danger' is being spiked in the press. Try a google news search, check your local paper. Able Danger seems to be tucked away at times or places where it is least likely to be seen.

[mewzilla]

They can spike it in the MSM. For all the good it'll do 'em.

The Old Media is dead. Long live the New Media :)

[ovrtaxt]

The Old Media is dead. Long live the New Media :)

That tirade that David Gregory went on the other day is just the spooky twitching of rigor mortis.

[Peach]

Eliot stopped him? But what rights does Eliot have to do this and why?

[mewzilla]

Spitzer claimed Snell's workload was just too heavy to permit it.

SNORT.

The committee had better not take no for an answer, and it ought to subpoeana Spitzer, too.

[Peach]

This is really disgusting.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Czar]

I keep waiting for something on this but, despite some early traction, it never really seems to take off.