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  • NYP: 'POST-IT' BLUNDER - Spies forced to 'cover up' Atta

    08/10/2005 5:43:03 AM PDT · by OESY · 112 replies · 4,889+ views
    New York Post ^ | August 10, 2005 | IAN BISHOP
    ...Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), the No. 2 man on both the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees, revealed that an elite military-intelligence unit known as Able Danger identified Atta and three other hijackers as likely members of a terror cell in this country as early as 1999. The spies wanted to turn the info over to the FBI in 2000, Weldon said, "so they could bring that cell in and take out the terrorists." He claimed Pentagon lawyers rejected the recommendation because they mistakenly believed that since Atta and the others were in the country legally on visas, they...