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9/11 Panel Decided to Omit a Reference to Atta
AP ^
| 08/11/05
| ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted on 08/11/2005 12:43:23 PM PDT by Pikamax
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Sept. 11 commission knew military intelligence officials had identified lead hijacker Mohamed Atta as a member of al-Qaida who might be part of U.S.-based terror cell more than a year before the terror attacks but decided not to include that in its final report, a spokesman acknowledged Thursday.
Al Felzenberg, who had been the commission's chief spokesman, said Tuesday the panel was unaware of intelligence specifically naming Atta. But he said subsequent information provided Wednesday confirmed that the commission had been aware of the intelligence.
It did not make it into the final report because the information was not consistent with what the commission knew about Atta's whereabouts before the attacks, Felzenberg said. The commission has gone out of existence, although a follow-up organization called the 9/11 Public Discourse Project continues to follow closely the Bush administration's progress in implementing their recommendations.
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posted on
08/11/2005 12:43:24 PM PDT
by
Pikamax
To: Pikamax
Lets see, there is another possible reason that it did not make it into the final report...."Conflict of interest" Gorelick was on the committee.
2
posted on
08/11/2005 12:45:57 PM PDT
by
KC_for_Freedom
(Sailing the highways of America, and loving it.)
To: Pikamax
Nothing to see here folks.. move along....
/sarc
To: Pikamax
Sounds like a case of volitional amnesia.
4
posted on
08/11/2005 12:46:23 PM PDT
by
dynoman
(Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
To: Pikamax
Jamie Gorlick strikes again ~ Bump!
5
posted on
08/11/2005 12:46:28 PM PDT
by
blackie
(Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
To: Pikamax
What's to keep someone in Congress from calling Gorelick up to testify?
6
posted on
08/11/2005 12:48:36 PM PDT
by
IncPen
(There's nothing that a liberal can't improve using your money...)
To: KC_for_Freedom
Gosh! Sounds familiar. What was that John Kerry answer? Can't remember the quote.
7
posted on
08/11/2005 12:49:46 PM PDT
by
golfisnr1
(Democrats are like roaches, hard to get rid of.>)
To: Pikamax
Gorelick was our top person on keeping information from getting where it needed to go. Apparently she continued that role to the hilt on this commission.
8
posted on
08/11/2005 12:50:11 PM PDT
by
rod1
To: blackie
Clinton to Janet Sterno, Sterno to Gorelick, Gorelick to Gorelick, Gorelick to Berger.
9
posted on
08/11/2005 12:51:32 PM PDT
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: IncPen
What's to keep someone in Congress from calling Gorelick up to testify?
My question is: Why hasn't she been called in front of a grand jury? Or sent on an all expense-paid trip to Club Gitmo?
10
posted on
08/11/2005 12:52:12 PM PDT
by
Thrusher
(Remember the Mog.)
To: Pikamax
Of course the 9/11 commission would leave this information out. They were too busy protecting Clinton and trying to put the blame on President Bush.
Since 9/11, I have been reminding people that most of the terror attacks happened under the Clnton administration and Clinton did very little. He was too busy playing grab a$$ with Monica to be bothered.
He walked out of the White House and left the mess to President Bush.
I also blame the democrats because in their vigor to STEEL the 2000 election, they prevented President Bush from having a smooth transition into office.
I will never forgive them for that. Nor will I forgive them for all the help they are giving the terrorists. Their hatred for President Bush is putting this country and our military in GRAVE DANGER but they don't care. The only thing they are interested in doing is to destroy Bush no matter what it takes.
11
posted on
08/11/2005 12:53:16 PM PDT
by
BMC1
To: Pikamax
Atta. Prague.
May have been an errant sighting, but here we have another instance of a potential sighting denied because it doesn't fit a timeline reliant on accurate and efficient transportation/border records. And omits the possibility of travelling under a different name.
12
posted on
08/11/2005 12:53:25 PM PDT
by
Shermy
To: Thrusher
This needs a special prosecutor.
13
posted on
08/11/2005 12:53:32 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: All
Drowning out the swamp sounds we can hear the D.C. swamp skunk apes a'spinning, "How can we spin this to protect both Parties? How? Howl? Howl! H-o-o-o-wl! Somebo-o-o-ody?!"
Welcome, America, to your kakistocracy.
Time to drain the D.C. swamp in 2006.
(Thanks to Lee Rodgers of KSFO for remembering a word for what we got.)
It ain't your grandfather's democracy no more. It ain't the "greatest generation's" America. It's post-America I guess. Right, Ms Gorelicker (sp)?
To: Thrusher
It must be a weighty thing to have the deaths of 3000 Americans on your head. Surely she must be wanting to unburden herself.
I suspect she'll be on Oprah before she's on Capitol Hill
15
posted on
08/11/2005 12:54:21 PM PDT
by
IncPen
(There's nothing that a liberal can't improve using your money...)
To: Pikamax
It did not make it into the final report because the information was not consistent with what the commission knew about Atta's whereabouts before the attacks, Felzenberg said. Well Freeperville and the Blogs should put this very lame excuse to death quickly so we can get on to the next cover up try. We are supposed to blindly accept the whereabouts of Atta et al as being a more important fact than the known existence of an al-Queda cell in the U.S. prior to 9/11 that included 4 of the terrorists. Give me a frigg'n break.
To: dynoman
A creature of volitional unconsciousness?
17
posted on
08/11/2005 12:54:59 PM PDT
by
Panzerlied
("We shall never surrender!")
To: IncPen
"What's to keep someone in Congress from calling Gorelick up to testify?"
She'd just lie --
Carolyn
18
posted on
08/11/2005 12:56:21 PM PDT
by
CDHart
(The world has become a lunatic asylum and the lunatics are in charge.)
To: Pikamax
I think we need a 9/11 (2) hearing to look into the 9/11 (1) hearing. First up Jamie Gorlick
19
posted on
08/11/2005 12:56:42 PM PDT
by
sierrahome
(Life is tough enough without being stupid.)
To: Pikamax
This is for obvious cover for Gorelick and the like. Despicable.
20
posted on
08/11/2005 12:56:57 PM PDT
by
KC_Conspirator
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