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RUSH: A couple of things here on Able Danger: "Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter plans to hold a hearing on the Able Danger allegations and the larger issue of information sharing between the Pentagon and the FBI." Fox News has confirmed this. "Able Danger, the code name for a military intelligence unit that apparently learned a year before the September 11th, 2001 terror attacks that lead hijacker Mohamed Atta and other terrorists were already in the United States." So looks like Jamie Gorelick may have found her way back into the news. Senate and House hearings apparently will take...

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission), an independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation...is chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks...

WASHINGTON -- Some within the U.S. intelligence community think Osama bin Laden is in eastern Iran, instead of the rugged tribal areas of Pakistan's northwestern frontier, where most American officials think he is still on the run. U.S. officials said in interviews that the Iran theory, which is held by a minority, is based on bits of intelligence information and the fact that months of CIA intelligence operations, along with search-and-destroy sweeps by thousands of Pakistani troops, have failed to find the al Qaeda leader or his No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri. Asked whether the U.S. intelligence community thinks bin Laden...

WASHINGTON - When it comes to counterterror strategy, maverick Rep. Curt Weldon (news, bio, voting record) tells it as he sees it — often to the extreme discomfort of fellow Republican lawmakers and the Bush administration. But his candor in a new book accusing the CIA of ignoring terror information has called Weldon's credibility into question as he is being considered to chair the House Homeland Security Committee. As the committee's vice chairman, Weldon, R-Pa., is among a small number of Republicans competing to ascend to the panel's top job as early as next month. The new chairman would replace...