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Hunter asks for probe of Pentagon actions against whistle-blower
By Roxana Tiron

House Armed Services Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) has asked the Pentagon’s inspector general to investigate why the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) revoked the top security clearance of a whistle-blower involved in a classified intelligence cell that may have identified the September 11 terrorists a year before the attacks.

Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, who has said that a military unit called Able Danger identified four September 11 hijackers before the 2001 attacks, is facing Pentagon accusations that he broke military rules.

None of the charges — which range from misuse of government property to flashing military identification while intoxicated — are related to his claims about Able Danger. His clearance, however, was revoked a day before he was supposed to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the intelligence cell’s findings.

Hunter’s request for an independent investigation into why Shaffer’s clearance was revoked is the latest development in a larger battle that Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has been waging against the DIA for months. Weldon has accused the agency of trying to put a lid on the information the intelligence unit uncovered.

Weldon says that the DIA stifled crucial information about Mohammed Atta, who became the lead September 11 terrorist, and then destroyed related documents. He also says that the September 11 commission appointed to look into the attacks turned disregarded information it received from Able Danger members.

Weldon has said he learned that a secret program known as Able Danger was put in place in 1999 and 2000 by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and by the general in charge of the Special Forces Command. It was devoted to uncovering key cells of al Qaeda globally, giving the military the capability to destroy those cells.

Weldon told The Hill that he believes the DIA, a unit of the Pentagon, is carrying out a smear campaign against an officer who spoke the truth.
Full article: http://tinyurl.com/dsm2g

Able Danger, China and DIA 10/21/05
After Curt Weldon’s blistering attack on the DIA and tried to find out who was deputy director during those years. While I have not found that information (yet) I did find out a few things.

First off, the DIA Deputy Director position is a civilian position and possibly an appointee - and that would make him/her a Clinton appointee. Recall it was DoD General Counsel lawyers who were tipped to Able Danger and came down hard, causing the purge of data in ealry 2000.

I believe the current Deputy Director is Mark Ewing who I can trace back to March 2001 (do a find on ‘ewing’). Whether Ewing is a Clinton era holdover and the source of the problem is pertinent to the Weldon claims.

Before that I have determine Jeremy Clark was the DD for DIA - and I can trace him until 1999 (do a find on ‘jeremy’). Interestingly enough, Jeremy Clark was somewhat involved in the issue of technology transfer to China during this same period - though he appears to have been aligned against the Clinton administration’s efforts to relax the restrictions:

Leitner submitted statistics showing a decline under the Clinton administration of export cases referred by the DTSA for further review by the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency. In closed testimony last week, DIA Deputy Director Jeremy Clark told the House Intelligence Committee he was worried about the decreasing number of export cases being referred to his agency for review, according to a congressional aide who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Full article: http://tinyurl.com/ccjsa

Louis Freeh/Able Danger - Transcript of Meet The Press Interview
As I note in my previous post, Louis Freeh was on Meet The Press with Tim Russert this morning. The Intelligence Summit has a video clip of the interview. During this interview, Mr. Freeh offers some comments concerning Able Danger. Here is a transcript of Mr. Freeh's Able Danger remarks (beginning 16 minutes and 15 seconds into the interview):

Louis Freeh: No I disagree with that. And you know, while we're on the subject of the 9-11 Commission, I'm very interested and I know the country is in the Able Danger report. We have now very honorable military officers telling the United States, Tim, that in 2000 not only had Mohammad Atta been identified, by photo and name, but was earmarked as an Al Qaeda operative in the United States. Apparently this information was brought to the 9-11 Commission prior to their report, but there's no reference to it. That's the kind of tactical intelligence that would make a difference in stopping the hijacking, not the strategic intelligence, the stuff that comes out of um, like water out of a fire hydrant and then in hindsight, you say, well you missed these three molecules of water. I think we're very interested in what the 9-11 Commission didn't do with respect to Able Danger.
From: http://tinyurl.com/7dflp

Wow, Fable Deranger 'reporting' is soon to bloom into a its own cottage industry. Anybody want to venture a guess as to who might produce the first 'documentary' "exposing" the truth about Fable Deranger for the alternative media? ;)

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
PerpetualYnquisitive, Fri Oct 28 2005, 06:34PM

[excerpt]
DOBBS: Colonel Anthony Shaffer's attorney Mark Zaid joins me now.

Mark, thanks for being with us.

MARK ZAID, COL. ANTHONY SHAFFER'S ATTORNEY: Thank you.

DOBBS: What is your response to what Slade Gorton said there?

ZAID: Well, I think the first thing is that someone should remind Senator Gorton he's no longer talking on the Senate floor where he has immunity from defamation, because he's going perilously close to crossing the line with his attacks on Tony Shaffer who, by the way, is -- his statements are being supported by half a dozen or so more career civil servants within the military and the defense contracting community.

So it's just nonsense with his statements that, in fact, he's talking about things he just doesn't know, and that's the problem.

He doesn't know because the Defense Department never gave the 9/11 Commission the crucial information.

DOBBS: Never gave them the information.

Dr. Eileen Pricer (ph), Captain Scott Philpott, both DOD, and J.D. Smith (ph), a defense contractor -- did any of those individuals who support your client, Colonel Shaffer -- have any of them made any progress in communicating with the 9/11 Commission, with the government here?

ZAID: Well, Shaffer spoke to them in October of '03, as the senator said, and then they asked the DOD for more information. When the DOD -- what we didn't know at the time was that the Defense Department had destroyed millions and millions of the documents that the Able Danger team had come up with, so it's no surprise that the commission then didn't have the information.

Then, Scott Philpott goes to them in July of '04, only about a week or so before the committee's report was issued, so it was too late to do anything.

Where the senator fails to address is the issue that if the commission had gone back to Shaffer in January of '04, when he tried not once but twice to talk to them and said one sentence, "Mr. Shaffer, we're not finding any documents that support your claims. Can you point us in the direction we should go?"

If they had done that, Shaffer could have gone back to his office at DIA and obtained the info.

And J.D. Smith, my other client, actually had a copy of the chart -- the chart that everyone is looking for -- with Mohamed Atta's name and photo, had it hanging in his wall. That chart then was destroyed several months later, and the DIA destroyed Shaffer's documents.

DOBBS: I'm unclear about who would take a picture, a chart off a wall for an active DOD project without their permission or knowledge?

ZAID: No.

By this time, Able Danger actually had ceased by late 2000, early 2001.

And the copy of the chart that J.D. Smith had was a draft copy that he had just kept as a memento. And when he moved his offices, the paper the chart was on was so frail it just fell apart and was destroyed. That didn't happen until the summer of 2004.

If the commission had actually followed up and done its due diligence, the chart would exist today in their hands and what Senator Gorton says was irrelevant probably would have been featured prominently in their report.

DOBBS: As another member of the commission, Tim Roemer, has said on this broadcast, he never saw the chart, no one has ever been able to produce the chart, he would have loved to have seen the chart.

ZAID: Absolutely.

And I can tell you also that Senator Gorton is not necessarily speaking for the entire 9/11 Commission.

I know of meetings with at least one commission member -- and it's not who you just referenced -- who does not agree with what Senator Gorton is saying.

DOBBS: Well, let's find out, what is the next step here? Because Congressman Curt Weldon, who is doing an outstanding job of advocacy for truth here and trying to get to the truth, and Senator Specter holing hearings on the Judiciary Committee on this very issue -- what happens next? How do we get to the truth?

ZAID: Yes.

And the Defense Department has been blocking the Senate Judiciary from pursuing their investigation. I had to testify in the place of my clients because DOD wouldn't allow it.

We're hopeful that somewhere within the grand canyon of the government and in the defense contractors that additional information, and especially the documents, someone will find some copies.

We do know that there is at least another person coming forward soon who will say the same assertion that Shaffer and Philpott and Price and the others have been.

So what's their motive? What exactly did these people have to gain by lying? Even the Defense Department says that they're credible witnesses, but unfortunately there is no documents. But we know in this town, just because there's no documents -- hey, 18 minutes off the Nixon tape disappeared. Do we think there wasn't anything on those 18 minutes? We just have to find it.

DOBBS: Mark Zaid, we thank you for being here representing Colonel Anthony Shaffer. We will continue along with you to try to get to the bottom as best we can of this remarkable controversy on able danger...

ZAID: Thank you.

DOBBS: And who knew what a year before 9/11.

Congressman Curt Weldon as we just mentioned, leading an investigation being and a remarkable advocate for both your clients and for the truth here. Thank you.

Near the bottom of this page: http://tinyurl.com/c7xs2

Hmmm, trillions missing from the Pentagon pre-9/11 and they are supposedly doing charts about terrorists on 'Tissue' paper. This 'Reality T.V.' series gets funnier with each episode. Tune in next week to learn how the pens that Shaffer 'stole' were eventually used to fill out the hijackers visa applications.

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
plectic, Mon Oct 31 2005, 01:15PM

Propaganda hoax (damage control).
http://nucnews.net/nucnews/NucNewslv.htm

September 10, 2001
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., indicated Monday he would seek $6 billion more to make emergency improvements to bases and equipment and to purchase urgently needed spare parts. Weldon recently toured 20 bases over four days to call attention to the problems. The service chiefs have said they face more than $30 billion in unfunded needs.


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Missile-Defense.html?searchpv=aponline


Wednesday, September 12, 2001

Within hours of the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, politicians and missile experts were arguing over whether successive administrations have allocated sufficient resources to counterterrorism, and whether the money has been well spent. Some Democrats took aim at the Bush administration for what they called its preoccupation with missile defense at a time when the country is facing more immediate threats from conventional terrorism.

"We need to devote much more attention to conventional threats," said Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), a sponsor of legislation designed to strengthen security in the nation's transportation networks, including airports. "Our resources are finite, as is our attention span. We have more urgent priorities" than missile defense.

Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), a leading proponent of missile defense and increased Pentagon budgets, rejected that view. "It is not either-or," he said. "We need to do both. . . . Our number one priority, according to the Constitution, is to provide for the common defense of the American people."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A14120-2001Sep11?language=printer

[ Edited Mon Oct 31 2005, 01:18PM ]

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
PerpetualYnquisitive, Thu Nov 10 2005, 05:02AM

PRESS CONFERENCE ON ABLE DANGER; NEW INFO EXPOSES MORE BLUNDERS BEFORE 9-11 & POINTS TO WIDER COVER-UP

WASHINGTON, Nov 8 - U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), vice chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security Committees, will hold a press conference on Wednesday, November 9th at 12:30 p.m. in the House Radio/TV Gallery to discuss the latest findings from his investigation into Able Danger.

The latest findings include: information Able Danger provided to defense officials about terrorist activity in the Port of Aden prior to the terrorist attack on the USS Cole back in October 2000; a discovery of another Able Danger member who confirms a set of Able Danger data not accounted for by the Pentagon; recent statements by the 9-11 Commission about Able Danger; and the latest efforts by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to smear Able Danger member Lt. Col. Shaffer who broke the silence about the Pentagon’s efforts to track al-Qaeda worldwide prior to September 11.
_________________________________
WHAT: Press Conference with Congressman Curt Weldon on Able Danger
WHERE: House Radio/TV Gallery, The Capitol (H-321)
WHEN: Wednesday, 9 November 2005 at 12:30 p.m.
CONTACT: John G. Tomaszewski, (202) 225-2011

**Print media who do not have credentials may obtain a day pass at the House Print Gallery in H-315.
http://tinyurl.com/ag762

Weldon press conference video

rtsp://video.c-span.org/15days/e110905_weldon.rm

Pentagon probes treatment of 'Able Danger' officer

By David Morgan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon inspector general is investigating the Defense Intelligence Agency's treatment of an Army colonel who was the first to claim publicly that the government knew about four September 11 hijackers long before the 2001 attacks, officials said on Wednesday.

Among the issues under review is whether the DIA revoked the security clearance of Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer last September in retaliation for repeated comments he made in the media about a military intelligence team code-named Able Danger, sources familiar with the case said.

Revelations about Able Danger, a small data-mining operation that ended in 2000, have reignited debate about whether the United States could have prevented the attacks on New York and Washington that killed 3,000 people and prompted the U.S. war on terrorism.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the inspector general began reviewing Shaffer's case after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld received a written request on October 20 from Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, Republican chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Armed Services.

Shaffer and his attorney met with officials from the inspector general's office on Wednesday.

Shaffer came forward in August with claims that Able Danger had identified September 11 ringleader Mohamed Atta and three other hijackers as al Qaeda members in early 2000. But he said Pentagon lawyers prevented the team from warning the FBI.

Others associated with Able Danger, including the team's former leader, Navy Capt. Scott Phillpott, have since made similar statements. But an exhaustive Pentagon search of tens of thousands of documents and electronic files related to the operation failed to corroborate the claims.
Full 2 page article: http://tinyurl.com/8uxhz

(note to my epping tom, quick run home and tell daddy that i made another post about Fable Deranger)
[ Edited Thu Nov 10 2005, 05:08AM ]

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
PerpetualYnquisitive, Fri Nov 11 2005, 01:09AM

Rep. Weldon Alleges Massive 'Cover-up' of Pre-9/11 Intel
Pentagon's 'Able Danger' could have prevented USS Cole bombing and 9/11
CNN Reports on Weldon's Claim: 'Most Important Story of Our Lifetime'

While we are not certain of Representative Weldon's motives, he does manage to keep the "Able Danger" story in the news. In this interview with CNN's Lou Dobbs, Weldon asserts that intelligence from the "Able Danger" group could have prevented the bombing of the USS Cole and the attacks that took place on September 11, 2001.

Weldon was also quoted in an article published earlier today by Eric Rosenberg of Hearst Newspapers:
said ...
Citing information provided to him by Navy Capt. Scott Philpott, the former manager of the Able Danger project, Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., said that two weeks before the Oct. 12, 2000, attack - and then again two days before - the intelligence unit uncovered evidence of a plot against an unnamed U.S. target in Yemen.

"They saw information that led them to unequivocally understand that something was going to happen in the port at Yemen involving an American entity," said Weldon, vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.

"Two days before the attack, they were jumping up and down because they knew something was going to happen ... at the port of Aden," Weldon told a Capitol Hill news conference.

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001997.htm

Video links: http://www.ameratsu.com/media/vid/cnn/cnn_lf_weldon_able_danger_051110a.wmv
&
http://www.ameratsu.com/media/vid/cnn/cnn_lf_weldon_able_danger_051110a.mov


Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
John Doe II, Sun Nov 13 2005, 09:28PM

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In light of the fact that Able Danger uncovered a terrorist cell in Brooklyn this might be interesting:
Atta and Al Shehhi at Helmsley Hotel
http://www.team8plus.org/forum_viewtopic.php?6.1765#1765
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Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
ewing2001, Mon Nov 21 2005, 05:39PM

...Able Danger is still presented as a "limited hangouter" in mainstream media, now
also reinforced by former 9/11 panelists Roemer and Gorton.
The mindgames around this false-hope "finding" for the official plotline continue....

No Evidence of Pre-9/11 Hijacker Discovery
The Wall Street Journal 21 November 2005
(no link, subs. only)

"...There is no documentary evidence that Able Danger identified Mohamed Atta as an al Qaeda operative before 9/11. The 9/11 Commission found no such evidence. The Department of Defense has found no such evidence in its internal review. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is now conducting its own investigation of Able Danger. We look forward to its findings, and any new facts it may uncover..."
[ Edited Mon Nov 21 2005, 05:41PM ]

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
freedomfiles, Tue Nov 22 2005, 12:14AM

Pentagon Firing Link To Able Danger
By RICHARD LARDNER -email-
Published: Nov 10, 2005
http://tampatrib.com/floridametronews/MGBWADUKUFE.html

The Army Reserve officer who went public with details about a secret military unit called Able Danger is being fired from his post at the Defense Intelligence Agency, a move that also could end his military career.

Attorney Mark Zaid, representing Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, was informed last week that the agency rejected an Oct. 19 appeal of its decision to revoke his client's top-secret security clearance.

The rejection came nearly two years after Shaffer said he first told the Sept. 11 commission that Able Danger identified four of the Sept. 11 hijackers, including ringleader Mohamed Atta, as terrorists more than a year before the attacks.

Zaid said he cannot prove the action was based on Shaffer's conversations with the commission, but he said the speed of the agency's decision "denotes selective attention."

Without the clearance, Shaffer cannot perform his duties as a senior intelligence officer.

"I expect that Tony will receive a notice of termination also in record-breaking speed," Zaid said in an e-mail.

Shaffer, a 43-year-old native of Kansas City, Mo., began speaking to the media in August after the Sept. 11 commission said Atta had not been identified before the attacks. He has been on paid administrative leave since March 2004, when the Defense Intelligence Agency began looking into allegations he had broken rules.

The allegations against Shaffer ranged from making false statements and circumventing his chain of command to obtaining a medal under false pretenses.

An agency spokesman declined to comment on Shaffer's status, citing privacy concerns.

On Tuesday, Shaffer called the allegations "bogus," noting that the Army promoted him to lieutenant colonel in October 2004.

That promotion would not have occurred, he said, if the Army had concerns with his job performance or personal integrity.

But now, due to the finality of the agency's action, the Army might have little choice but to follow suit, thereby undercutting his uniformed career, Shaffer said.

Shaffer, however, is not without supporters in high places.

U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, last month asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to put any further action against Shaffer on hold until the Pentagon inspector general could review the agency's handling of the case.

Two of Shaffer's former supervisors have backed Shaffer. In separate statements, retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert Harding and retired Army Col. Gerry York called Shaffer a model employee and an "outstanding" officer.

Figure Exposed
Ever wonder how much the United States spends every year on intelligence operations?

It's a closely guarded secret, but at a recent conference in San Antonio, a senior government employee told the audience the figure was $44 billion.

The comments made by Mary Margaret Graham, deputy director of national intelligence for collection, were first reported by U.S. News & World Report, which had sent a correspondent to cover the conference.

Details about intelligence spending are classified. Intelligence officials have argued that releasing the figures could damage national security.

But Steve Aftergood, a research analyst at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, has said there is no harm in disclosing the aggregate amount.

"Anyone who pretends that national security is jeopardized by the release of this figure is a fool," Aftergood said.

Send military news to Richard Lardner, military affairs reporter, The Tampa Tribune, 200 S. Parker St., Tampa FL 33606; e-mail rlardner

Able Danger: Pentagon For Real?
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/910

Able Danger Blog
http://www.abledangerblog.com/

Captain Quarter's Blog - Able Danger
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/005764.php

[ Edited Mon Nov 21 2005, 07:18PM ]

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
freedomfiles, Tue Nov 22 2005, 12:35AM

There are two timelines for Mohammed Atta's whereabouts in April 2001. One is provided by American intelligence officers, the other by terrorists.

Rethinking Prague
by Edward Morrissey
08/24/2005 12:00:00 AM
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/981wymiq.asp

THE ONGOING CONTROVERSY over the Able Danger project deepened this week when two more sources from the U.S. Army data-mining project came forward. Navy Captain Scott Phillpott and civilian contractor James Smith joined Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer in claiming that Able Danger identified Mohammed Atta and three other 9/11 hijackers as potential al Qaeda operatives well before the attacks. Phillpott specifically told the New York Times when he went public that Able Danger made that connection between January and February of 2000, 19 months before the attack.

However, that puts the Able Danger scenario in conflict, again, with the 9/11 Commission's final report--this time on the Atta travel timeline. On pages 167-168 of the report, the Commission provides a narrative of the Hamburg cell movements during this period:

After leaving Afghanistan, the four began researching flight schools and aviation training. In early January 2000, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali--a nephew of KSM living in the UAE who would become an important facilitator in the plot--used Shehhi's credit card to order a Boeing 747-400 flight simulator program and a Boeing 767 flight deck video, together with attendant literature; Ali had all these items shipped to his employer's address. Jarrah soon decided that the schools in Germany were not acceptable and that he would have to learn to fly in the United States. Binalshibh also researched flight schools in Europe, and in the Netherlands he met a flight school director who recommended flight schools in the United States because they were less expensive and
required shorter training periods.

In March 2000, Atta emailed 31 different U.S. flight schools on behalf of a small group of men from various Arab countries studying in Germany who, while lacking prior training, were interested in learning to fly in the United States. Atta requested information about the cost of the training, potential financing, and accommodations.

The Able Danger team has insisted it made the identification of Atta while he lived inside the United States, however. This created the problem that kept them from coordinating with the FBI when their analysis pointed out this potential terrorist cell. Had they identified Atta and his cohorts while in Hamburg, Able Danger could easily have notified the State Department of their suspicions and kept cell members from getting visas.

IF ATTA HAD ALREADY MADE IT to the United States, how did the Commission establish this timeline? They deduced it from FBI interrogations of three sources: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh, two of the plotters who helped create the 9/11 attacks, and Mohammed's nephew Ali Abdul Aziz Ali. The footnotes in the Report to the Atta timeline paragraphs give almost no corroborative evidence besides that of the testimony of these men--who have little motivation to cooperate honestly with American investigators.

Could the "intelligence" gleaned from the interrogations of these al Qaeda plotters and high-level terrorists have been an attempt at disinformation?

SO WITH THESE FACTS BEHIND US, let us move to some informed speculation. Recall the strange and unremarked coincidence of the arrests of two Iraqi intelligence agents in Germany at the end of February 2001. These arrests never made it into the Commission's final report, despite the fact that German authorities described an elaborate Iraqi network involving several German cities at the same time that three of the four 9/11 team leaders all traveled to or through Germany. One of these team leaders, Ziad Jarrah, left Germany just as the Germans captured the Iraqi spies.

The only media reports about these arrests came immediately afterwards, brief dispatches from the BBC and Reuters. Two weeks later, however, a Parisian Arabic newspaper, Al-Watan al-Arabi, published a more detailed analysis of the capture on March 16:

Al-Watan al-Arabi (Paris) reports that two Iraqis were arrested in Germany, charged with spying for Baghdad. The arrests came in the wake of reports that Iraq was reorganizing the external branches of its intelligence service and that it had drawn up a plan to strike at US interests around the world through a network of alliances with extremist fundamentalist parties.

The most serious report contained information that Iraq and Osama bin Ladin were working together. German authorities were surprised by the arrest of the two Iraqi agents and the discovery of Iraqi intelligence activities in several German cities. German authorities, acting on CIA recommendations, had been focused on monitoring the activities of Islamic groups linked to bin Ladin. They discovered the two Iraqi agents by chance and uncovered what they considered to be serious indications of cooperation between Iraq and bin Ladin. The matter was considered so important that a special team of CIA and FBI agents was sent to Germany to interrogate the two Iraqi spies. [emphasis added]

Despite this contemporaneous report about the nature of the German arrests and the involvement of American counterintelligence officials in the investigation, not a word of the affair appears in the Commission's final report.

WHICH BRINGS US to the hotly debated reports of Atta's alleged visit to Prague on

April 9, 2001. Czech intelligence had kept a close eye on Iraqi envoy Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani ever since an Iraq defector told British intelligence in 1998 about a plot to blow up the Radio Free Europe station in Prague in retaliation for its broadcasts into Iraq. The Czechs eventually stripped al-Ani of his diplomatic credentials and sent him back to Saddam Hussein.

However, after 9/11, Czech intelligence privately told the United States that it had evidence that al-Ani met with Mohammed Atta on April 9, 2001. Later, the Czechs went public with the information--and to this day, the Czechs insistently stand behind this intelligence. Part of the reason for this insistence is not just a belief in their source, but also a corroborating entry in al-Ani's datebook, which the Czechs apparently discovered during a surreptitious search of the Iraqi embassy after Saddam's fall in April 2003. The datebook contained an entry for an April 2001 meeting with a "Hamburg student," the same description used by Atta himself when applying for his visa. (It is perhaps worth noting that Epstein is the only person to have reported on the existence of this daybook.)

However, the 9/11 Commission disregarded the Czech intelligence and declared that Atta had never gone to Prague in April 2001. How did the Commission reach this conclusion? Their report details the factors that went into this rejection on pages 228-9:

* Atta's cell phone was used in the U.S. on April 6, 9, 10, and 11

* No U.S. records of Atta traveling under his own name

* No pictures of anyone who looked like Atta in the Czech Republic on those dates

* Testimony from two al Qaeda sources . . . Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh

WE HAVE BEEN TOLD REPEATEDLY that the 9/11 Commission Report debunks the Prague trip, but the report says only that it "cannot absolutely rule out the possibility that Atta was in Prague on April 9, 2001. He could have used an alias to travel and a passport under that alias, but this would be an exception to his practice of using his true name while traveling (as he did in January and would in July when he took his next overseas trip). The FBI and CIA have uncovered no evidence that Atta held any fraudulent passports."

The Commission's source for this? Ramzi Binalshibh.

Why did the Commission put so much emphasis on the testimony of two terrorists while dismissing the testimony of two senior American officers in determining the timeline for Mohammed Atta and the Hamburg cell?

Edward Morrissey is a contributing writer to The Daily Standard and a contributor to the blog Captain's Quarters.

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
ewing2001, Sat Dec 10 2005, 01:40PM

Barbara Boxer is pushing the 'limited hangout' Able Danger

http://www.yourbbsucks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6880

"...I haven’t seen Congressman Weldon’s letter yet, but...we need to pursue the truth about 9/11 wherever it leads. The truth should be the only priority. And we need the truth. My main focus now, though, is to end the war in Iraq...."

btw, Boxer voted for the Patriot Act and the 2002 Iraq War resolution.

NOTE that Jonathan Gold, the admin of bbsucks, a close friend of Kyle Hence (who registered 911truth.org) is glorifying this as a 'breakthrough'.

Once again, supporters of 911truth.org are deceptive with false hope campaigns and reinforcing the official plotline.
[ Edited Sat Dec 10 2005, 11:38AM ]

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
John Doe II, Fri Jan 13 2006, 02:37AM
What I believe is the most interesting part of Able Danger:
At the beginning of 2000 Able Danger had identified the Brooklyn cell including Atta and the alleged hijackers Al Shehhi, Al Mihdhar and Nawaf Al Hazmi. The problem is: Atta and Al Shehhi officially hadn't even entered the US and were still in Marienstrasse (Hamburg) which was under observation by at least the BND and the CIA.
Al Mihdhar and Nawaf Al Hazmi were indeed already in the US but in California.
To me this is the really tough question people should push.

[ Edited Thu Jan 12 2006, 09:38PM ]

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
PerpetualYnquisitive, Thu Feb 02 2006, 01:35AM

Did DoD lawyers blow the chance to nab Atta?
By Jacob Goodwin

In September 2000, one year before the Al Qaeda attacks of 9/11, a U.S. Army military intelligence program, known as “Able Danger,” identified a terrorist cell based in Brooklyn, NY, one of whose members was 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta, and recommended to their military superiors that the FBI be called in to “take out that cell,” according to Rep. Curt Weldon, a longtime Republican congressman from Pennsylvania who is currently vice chairman of both the House Homeland Security and House Armed Services Committees.

The recommendation to bring down that New York City cell -- in which two other Al Qaeda terrorists were also active -- was not pursued during the weeks leading up to the 2000 presidential election, said Weldon. That’s because Mohammed Atta possessed a “green card” at the time and Defense Department lawyers did not want to recommend that the FBI go after someone holding a green card, Weldon told his House colleagues last June 27 during a little-noticed speech, known as a “special order,” which he delivered on the House floor.

Details of the origins and efforts of Able Danger were corroborated in a telephone interview by GSN with a former defense intelligence officer who said he worked closely with that program. That intelligence officer, who spoke to GSN while sitting in Rep. Weldon’s Capitol Hill office, requested anonymity for fear that his current efforts to help re-start a similar intelligence-gathering operation might be hampered if his identity becomes known.
Article: http://tinyurl.com/7p95p

Epeeping Tom, look, look I posted about Fable Deranger again. My BAD. :p

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
ewing2001, Thu Feb 02 2006, 10:58AM

We have to make sure again to our readers, that we resent the official gatekeeper/limited hangout spin regarding "Able Danger".

Please everyone elaborate mainstream articles on inconsistencies,
thx for the good work so far :)
[ Edited Thu Feb 02 2006, 05:59AM ]

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
ewing2001, Thu Feb 02 2006, 01:06PM

This doesn't smack good for me either:

Congressman subpoenaed for 9/11 trial
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/02/02/weldon.supboena /
Thursday, February 2, 2006

Weldon asked to testify about what U.S. knew before attacks

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Attorneys for al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui have subpoenaed Pennsylvania Congressman Curt Weldon to testify at a trial that will determine whether Moussaoui should be executed.

The defense is seeking Weldon's testimony to try and show that the government knew more about the September 11, 2001, attacks than Moussaoui did...

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
ewing2001, Sun Feb 05 2006, 01:32PM

Curt Weldon linked to Moon

http://www.iapprovethismessiah.com/2004/06/weldon-khadafy-and-moongate.html
6/12/2004

"...You'll recall that, when I wrote my Gadflyer article, Rep. Curt Weldon's office claimed that he didn't speak at the coronation of Sun Myung Moon. First his secretary said, "I'm telling you, he didn't go." So I sent her some links. She then said Weldon planned to attend this awards show, but couldn't make it due to his schedule. ..."

http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog/2004/05/im-and-i-approve-this-messiah.html

(More here:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Curt+Weldon%22+Sun+Myung+Moon )

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
PerpetualYnquisitive, Sun Feb 05 2006, 07:24PM

More limited hangouts while reinforcing backstory myths + strange timing of The LoneGunMen tie-in

Able Danger and the Cole
Rory O'Connor | January 25, 2006

Is Kirk Lippold, commander of the ill-fated USS Cole, the latest career military officer to be victimized by the political miasma now surrounding the controversial Able Danger intelligence program?

Lippold was in charge of the Cole on October 12, 2000 when the guided missile destroyer was attacked in the harbor of Aden, Yemen by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist organization. Suicide bombers Ibrahim al-Thawr and Abdullah al-Misawa approached the port side of the Cole in a small craft laden with explosives and blew a 40-by-40-foot gash in the destroyer's port side. Seventeen sailors were killed and 39 others were wounded in the blast.

The official Navy Judge Advocate General Manual (JAGMAN) investigation of the incident that Lippold "acted reasonably in adjusting his force protection posture based on his assessment of the situation that presented itself" when the Cole arrived in Aden to refuel. The investigation further concluded that "the commanding officer of Cole did not have the specific intelligence, focused training, appropriate equipment or on-scene security support to effectively prevent or deter such a determined, preplanned assault on his ship."

Although Lippold lacked "the specific intelligence" to prevent the attack on the Cole, his superiors did not.

Analysts associated with the secretive Able Danger program, including Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer and Navy Captain Scott Phillpott, who say they identified Mohamed Atta and three other 9/11 hijackers a year before the Al Qaeda-connected terror attacks on America, also say their team passed on warnings about Al Qaeda activity in Aden before the attack on the Cole to high officials at both Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and Central Command (CENTCOM).

Shaffer, Phillpott and others tried unsuccessfully to bring the Able Danger information to the attention of the FBI and later to the 9/11 Commission. But when a frustrated Shaffer eventually went public with the findings, he was placed on administrative leave from his post at the Defense Intelligence Agency, had his security clearance lifted, was repeatedly and falsely vilified as an alcoholic, philandering kleptomaniac by his superiors at the Defense Department, and was effectively muzzled from speaking further either to reporters or to Congress.

The Able Danger team had uncovered evidence of five 'hot spots' of Al Qaeda activity: Mauritania; Malaysia; Hamburg, Germany; Brooklyn, New York; and Aden, Yemen. Captain Phillpott even briefed then-SOCOM head General Peter Schoomaker (now Chief of Staff, U.S. Army) on the findings just two days prior to the attack on the Cole. Phillpott reportedly warned Schoomaker that Able Danger had uncovered information of increased al-Qaeda "activity" in Aden harbor -- a warning that was gleaned through a search of bin Laden's business ties.

Able Danger analysts also passed along the information to the brass at CENTCOM, who had authority over the Fifth Fleet to which the Cole was assigned, but inexplicably took no action to head off the attack on the Cole. Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pennsylvania), who has been leading the push inside Congress to get to the bottom of the Able Danger affair, later told Fox News: "[T]wo weeks before the attack on the Cole, in fact, two days before the attack on the Cole, [Able Danger] saw an increase of activity that led them to say to the senior leadership in the Pentagon at that time, in the Clinton administration, there's something going to happen in Yemen and we better be on high alert, but it was discounted."
Full article :http://tinyurl.com/c6fkz

Cole attack planner escapes prison
(AP)
Updated: 2006-02-06 08:41

An al-Qaida operative sentenced to death for plotting the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 sailors in 2000 was among a group of convicts who escaped from a Yemen prison last week, Interpol said Sunday in issuing a global security alert.

Officials set up checkpoints around the capital of San'a, where the prison was located, to try to catch the escapees before they could flee to the protection of mountain tribes, according to a Yemeni security official speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.

Some mountainous tribal areas are essentially outside the control of Yemen's central government, raising fears the fugitives could hide there before escaping the country.

The Yemeni government made no official comment Sunday.

Yemeni officials said Jamal al-Badawi — a man convicted of plotting, preparing and helping carry out the Cole bombing — was among the fugitives, Interpol said. Al-Badawi was among those sentenced to death in September 2004 for plotting the attack, in which two suicide bombers blew up an explosives-laden boat next to the destroyer as it refueled in the Yemeni port of Aden on Oct. 12, 2000.
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Behind bars in his courtroom jail cell, Jamal al-Badawi listens to the appeal court proceedings, in San'a, Yemen, in this Dec. 8, 2004 file photo. Al-Badawi, considered to be a mastermind of the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 sailors in a Yemeni port in 2000 was among a group of convicts who escaped from a Yemen prison last week, Interpol said Sunday, Feb. 5, 2006, in an 'urgent global security alert. [AP]
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Full article: http://tinyurl.com/dkt9w

Alleged terrorist's trial moves ahead

By Matthew Barakat and Michael J. Sniffen
ASSOCIATED PRESS

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - More than four years ago, Zacarias Moussaoui was arrested by the FBI while taking pilot training in Minnesota.

He was still in custody when al-Qaida hijackers attacked on September 11, 2001.

After a tortuous trip through the legal system, the 37-year-old Frenchman admitted last April that Osama bin Laden ordered him to train to fly a jetliner into the White House.

He pleaded guilty to conspiring with the Sept. 11 hijackers but claimed not to know their plans.

On Monday, a federal court begins picking a jury to decide whether Moussaoui, the only person charged by the United States in the nation's most deadly terrorist attack, will be executed or spend life in prison.

Whatever the jury decides, Moussaoui's impact has been both unexpected and peculiar:

• Once thought to be a missing 20th hijacker, he generated only a false alarm: The nation's 3,500 crop-dusters were temporarily grounded based partly on what FBI agents found on his computer. But Moussaoui is no longer believed to be a 20th hijacker, and the government deleted references to his interest in crop-dusters from its indictment.

• His case was central to the finger pointing, investigations and reforms that followed the attacks. An obscure FBI lawyer in Minneapolis made the cover of Time magazine as a person of the year for her whistleblowing complaint that the bureau dropped the ball in investigating Moussaoui.

• One of the nation's most efficient federal courthouses, proud to be nicknamed the "Rocket Docket," has been slowed to a crawl by a defendant with no legal training serving largely as his own lawyer.

The pace picks up Monday when 500 potential jurors show up at the courthouse in Alexandria to fill out detailed questionnaires about their knowledge of the case and feelings about the death penalty.

Opening statements in the sentencing trial are set for March 6, and the trial is expected to last one to three months.

Prosecutors contend Moussaoui could have prevented the September 11 attack by telling investigators what he knew when arrested.

The defense argues that Moussaoui knew less about September 11 than the government, citing investigations that turned up multiple missed opportunities to possibly prevent the attacks.

Those investigations were fueled in part by FBI agent Coleen Rowley's public complaint that the FBI failed to aggressively investigate Moussaoui after his August 2001 arrest.

Selected as a Time Person of the Year in 2002, Rowley is now running for Congress.

The defense has subpoenaed Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., the House Armed Services Committee vice chairman, who in a House speech on pre-Sept. 11 intelligence failures revealed that a secret military data-mining operation code-named Able Danger had identified four of the 19 hijackers, including leader Mohammed Atta, as al-Qaida operatives a year and half before the attacks.
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The plea included an admission that Moussaoui "knew of al-Qaida's plans to fly airplanes into prominent buildings in the United States and he agreed to travel to the United States to participate in the plan."

Moussaoui insisted he was not involved with Sept. 11 but was training for a later attack on the White House.
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Full article: http://tinyurl.com/b8fzj

Trying to upstage the likes of Samuel Byck & Frank Corder , no doubt.

This One, They Didn't Let In
WASHINGTON, June 6, 2002

(CBS) Law enforcement officials say the government kept hijacking ringleader Mohammed Atta's roommate from entering the United States on at least four occasions but didn't track his money transfers that led directly to the eventual hijackers.

Officials say Ramzi Bin al-Shibh - named in court papers as an unindicted hijacking co-conspirator and the focus of a worldwide manhunt - intended to join the hijackers on their mission but shifted to providing logistical support when he couldn't get into the country.

The Yemen citizen was refused a U.S. visa four times in 2000 because of suspicions he wouldn't leave America if he was let in.

The officials, commenting on condition of anonymity, say FBI money tracking experts have reconstructed wire transfers Bin al-Shibh made from Germany and Yemen - some made using an alias - that went to the eventual hijackers and to one of the flight schools where they trained.

The officials say two of those transfers went last summer to Zacarias Moussaoui, the man U.S. officials believe was chosen to replace Bin al-Shibh as a hijacker but who was foiled when he was arrested at a Minnesota flight school last August.

Moussaoui is the lone defendant charged with conspiring with Osama bin Laden, Bin al-Shibh and the hijackers in the September 11 attacks. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against him.

This isn't the first time Bin al-Shibh's name has come up in the investigation. In testimony before Congress last February, Dennis Lormel, the chief of the FBI's financial crimes section, said that Bin al-Shibh, Atta and Marwin Al-Shehhi - another Sept. 11 hijacker - were members of an al Qaeda terrorist cell based in Germany.

Lormel pointed to wire transfers from Bin al-Shibh to Moussaoui as evidence contributing to Moussaoui's indictment. Bin al-Shibh was also identified at that time as one of five men appearing in a video found in Afghanistan and released by the Department of Justice earlier this year, allegedly showing a discussion of preparations for the commission of terrorist acts.
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# According to court records and interviews, Bin al-Shibh:

# Wired money July 26, 2000, from Germany to al-Shehhi in Florida, where he was attending flight school.

# Arranged Aug. 14, 2000, to wire money from his account in Germany to the account of a Florida flight training school where Jarrah attempted to enroll Bin al-Shibh for pilot lessons.

# Sent money Sept. 25, 2000, via wire transfer from Hamburg, Germany, to al-Shehhi in Florida.

# Received on July 30 and 31, 2001, two wire transfers from the United Arab Emirates in the amount of $15,000 and then on Aug. 1 and Aug. 3 wired $14,000 in money orders to Moussaoui in Oklahoma. For these transactions, Bin al-Shibh used an alias, Ahad Sabet, according to U.S. officials
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Full article: http://tinyurl.com/a8696

Yemeni Fugitive Was Critical To Unfolding of Sept. 11 Plot
By Peter Finn
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, July 14, 2002; Page A01

TARRAGONA, Spain -- On the morning of July 9, 2001, Mohamed Atta drove a silver Hyundai rental car east out of Madrid toward this Mediterranean beach area, a ribbon of resorts crowded with vacationers. The attacks on New York and the Pentagon were just weeks away and Atta was headed to a secret meeting to complete the planning, according to U.S. officials and a Spanish police investigation of the lead hijacker's movements.

As Atta drove 300 miles across the country, his old roommate in Germany, Ramzi Binalshibh, was boarding a budget flight from Hamburg to Reus, the small airport that serves this region. For Binalshibh, a Yemeni whose repeated failures to get a U.S. visa had ended his ambition to join Atta in death in the United States, the meeting in Tarragona would crown a mission that began for him at a similar summit 18 months earlier in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, U.S. law enforcement and Western intelligence officials said.
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"It was only by luck, really, he wasn't given a visa," said one official. "Otherwise, he'd have been on one of those planes that went down."
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Full article: http://tinyurl.com/c2hsc

The Lone Gunmen
Pilot
Fact Sheet

Episode 1AEB79 "Pilot"
Written by: JOHN SHIBAN, VINCE GILLIGAN & FRANK SPOTNITZ
Directed by: ROB BOWMAN

Filming Locations: NEW YORK CITY, NY & VANCOUVER, BC
Shooting from: March 20 - April 7, 2000
Starring: TOM BRAIDWOOD AS MELVIN FROHIKE
DEAN HAGLUND AS RINGO LANGLY
BRUCE HARWOOD AS JOHN F. BYERS
and ZULEIKHA ROBINSON
From: http://tinyurl.com/acx98

This boils down to some very "coincidental timing", it would appear that Fable Deranger "discovered" terrorist's planning attacks in early 2000. The information gathered is never used to prevent any of these attacks, but the program is getting plenty of mileage promoting the hijacker meme.

These very same 'terrorists' then start flight training to be able to "act out" the storyline of a T.V. show that was filmed at nearly the same time that Fable Danger first discovered them three months earlier.

The "EComCon" company from the pilot episode is an acronym for Emergency Communications and Control, which is from "Seven Days in May".

Tagline: "I'm suggesting Mr President, there's a military plot to take over the Government of these United States, next Sunday..."
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They also feared that Air Force One itself was a target. Cheney told the president there was a credible threat against the plane. Using the code name for Air Force One, Mr. Bush told an aide, “Angel is next.” The threat was passed to presidential pilot Col. Mark Tillman.
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From: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/11/60II/main521718.shtml

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
ewing2001, Tue Feb 14 2006, 06:08AM

Spinning negligence and official plotline continues
- Atta's computer 'record:
'13' CYBER CLUES TO 9/11 PILOT

http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/63519.htm
February 14, 2006 -- EXCLUSIVE

An active-duty military intelligence analyst has told congressional investigators that 9/11 pilot Mohamed Atta surfaced 13 times in a controversial Pentagon computer program before he executed the attacks, The Post has learned...

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
flanbeard, Tue Feb 14 2006, 05:16PM

AP Version Exclusive, of course.

Weldon: 'Able Danger' ID'd 9/ll Ringleader
Feb 14 5:33 PM US/Eastern
By KIMBERLY HEFLING
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON
Pre-Sept. 11 intelligence conducted by a secret military unit identified terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta 13 different times, a congressman said Tuesday.

During a Capitol Hill news conference, Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., said the unit _ code-named "Able Danger" _ also identified "a problem" in Yemen two weeks before the attack on the USS Cole. It knew the problem was tied into the port of Aden and involved a U.S. platform, but the ship commander was not made aware of it, Weldon said.

The suicide bombing of the Cole killed 17 sailors on Oct. 12, 2000.

If anyone had told the Cole's commander that there was any indication of a problem in Aden, "he would not have gone there," Weldon told reporters. "He had no clue."

Weldon would not say who provided evidence of such intelligence to him.

Since August, Weldon, vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has pushed Congress and the Pentagon to investigate the workings of Able Danger, which used data mining to identify links that might indicate the workings of terrorists. If he is correct, it would change the timeline for when government officials first became aware of Atta's links to al-Qaida.

Former members of the September 11 commission have dismissed Weldon's findings.

Cmdr. Greg Hicks, a Pentagon spokesman, released a statement saying that Pentagon officials welcome the opportunity to address these issues during a hearing scheduled Wednesday before a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/02/14/D8FP5LOO0.html

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
ewing2001, Wed Feb 15 2006, 05:33PM

Final evidence, that Curt Weldon is a limited hangouter and not credible, just pushing the 9/11 "plotline" and official myth on war on terror and 'al-quaeda':

Shaffer's written testimony
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
http://www.abledangerblog.com/2006/02/shaffers-written-testimony-is-must.html

http://www.house.gov/hasc/schedules/2-15-06ShafferTestimony.pdf

"...If we are to win this war on terrorism, and hope to preclude the next 9-11 type attack - an attack that many experts fear wil be one that utilizes a weapon of mass destruction such as chemical, biological or nuclear - it is my judgment that we must examine and make sure that the bureaucratic and policy problems that hobbled ABLE DANGER effort have been fixed.

From my experience, to date, the problems have not been fixed as the officers and culture that existed before 9-11, and permitted the ABLE DANGER project to fail, are still in place today..."

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
ewing2001, Wed Feb 15 2006, 10:58PM

Photo: Mark S. Zaid -biggest disinfo attorney since 9/11?

Able Danger -limited hangout also merged with Sibel Edmonds/Daniel Ellsberg distraction

-another final thought on new mass mails regarding the latest development of the 'able danger' hearings, meanwhile also merged into the Zacarias Moussaoui trial, since Curt Weldon, a Sun Myung Moon associate,
http://www.iapprovethismessiah.com/2004/06/weldon-khadafy-and-moongate.html was invited to testify over there.


Unsurprisingly the biggest political diversions from physical and investigative evidence on the "9/11 Inside Job", are strongly tied together:

Able Danger and Sibel Edmonds. Mark Zaid of the Washington law firm Krieger and Zaid, not only represents Sibel Edmonds, but also Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, one of the Pentagon analysts who has come forward to support Curt Weldon's so called 'Able Danger's findings'.

Krieger and Zaid is a front within a front, representing CIA or other Intelligence Officers, who occasionally "sue" the CIA, NSA, FBI, DIA and other US agencies.

There was Jeffrey Sterling, an attorney employed by the CIA from 1993-2001, who hired Krieger & Zaid, PLLC and represented him in 2 lawsuits.

They also represented Arianna Huffington (against the CIA and U.S. Department of Justice, 1998), Mohamed Al Fayed (the owner of "Harrods"), Notra Trulock, Congressman Lane Evans, American Lawyer Media and families of the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103.
http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2003/03/sterling030403.html

What speaks for them are their efforts to represent military personnel refusing anthrax vaccine, since 1998 (!).
http://www.gulfwarvets.com/court3.htm
Possibly this proves a diversion within intelligence- and military apparatus of the U.S, also often labelled by many bloggers as the "red vs. blue team" fight.

Krieger & Zaid also support the James Madison Project, yet another CIA front, specialized in absurde unclassification lawsuits, f.i. to uncover the "Detection of German Secret Ink" (1917) and other similar cases.

http://www.jamesmadisonproject.org/boardofdirectors.html
One of the board members is Patrick G. Eddington, an award-winning analyst at the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center for almost nine years.
He also was coordinating the CIA's military targeting support to NATO during Operation Deliberate Force in Bosnia in 1995.


Able Danger and the PR around alleged whistleblower Sibel Edmonds is a psyOP front, deceiving leftgatekeepers and 9/11 'truth' activists into a false hope- and distraction campaign, which in reality reinforces the official story of 9/11 plus the myth about the bogus war on terror and the bogus and phantom group al-quaeda.

Sibel Edmons, promoting herself as victimized and under "gag order" is also under the influence of limited hangouter and military insider Daniel Ellsberg, who served in the Pentagon in 1964 under Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

In 1970 he leaked some secretive "Pentagon Papers" to The New York Times, allegedly revealing some unknown mysteries of the Nixon administration.
In reality Ellsbergh was victim of a setup with limited information.

After "hiding" for years, he publicly surrendered, but strangely all charges against Ellsberg were eventually dropped.

His motives why he ignores extreme evidence of the US orchestration of the 9/11 attacks, remain obscure and not credible.

Ellsberg was or still is an employee of the Rand Corp., who supports the official story of 9/11 and manipulated both 9/11 commission and NIST since their first public hearings of blocking any further investigations, instead "looking forward" and "correct negligence" of the past.
[ Edited Wed Feb 15 2006, 06:18PM ]

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
ewing2001, Mon Feb 20 2006, 07:26PM

http://xymphora.blogspot.com/
Sunday, February 19, 2006
The Able Danger danger

The danger of Able Danger - at least for those who enjoy believing everything they are told - is that it completely undermines the whole basis for the Official Story of what happened on September 11, 2001. It's a timing thing.

The FBI has been very careful to have Atta arriving for the first time in the United States in June 2000. Their simple reason for the certainty of arrival time is that he is documented to have been attending school in Hamburg up to May 2000.

Able Danger puts Atta in the United States, as head of a Brooklyn cell of terrorists, at least as early as January or February 2000, and probably back into 1999.

There have been more recent attempts to obfuscate the issue by claiming that the information, including the picture of Atta, came from surveillance overseas, or claiming that Atta's participation in the Brooklyn cell was in September 2000 (impossible, as Atta was otherwise engaged by that time; also note this 'usually reliable source' making a fool of himself carrying the water for the Pentagon spinners), but the original information is clear that the data mining with respect to Atta was with respect to his American activities at least as early as early 2000.

Therefore, the terrorist Atta can't be the same guy as the student in Hamburg. However, the entire story of September 11 is constructed on that identity. The biography of the Egyptian Atta, how he became radicalized attending a mosque in Hamburg, formed part of the al Qaeda terrorist cell in Hamburg, and then came to America to lead a terrorist attack, depends on the American 'Atta' being the same guy as the Egyptian/Hamburg Atta (by 'Atta', I mean the guy who assumed the Atta identity for his operations in the United States).

Able Danger confirms that they are not the same guy, and that we really know nothing about the background of the American 'Atta'.

Since we can now see that the FBI story with respect to Atta is a lie, and we have no way of knowing anything about who he really was or what motivated him, we can see that the stories about every other one of the nineteen is similarly flawed.

If the FBI can lie about Atta, they can lie about all of them. Suddenly, the connection between al Qaeda and September 11, which depended entirely on the connections to the Hamburg radical Muslim cell, disappears...

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
ewing2001, Wed Feb 22 2006, 01:01AM

Moussaoui to press for testimony on US foreknowledge of 9/11 hijackers
Joshua Pantesco

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/02/moussaoui-to-press-for-testimony-on-us.php
February 21, 2006

[JURIST] A lawyer representing Zacarias Moussaoui [JURIST news archive] said Tuesday he would seek to compel the testimony of US Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) [official website], recently subpoenaed [CNN report] by the defense as a witness to the extent of the government's knowledge of the identities of 9/11 hijackers before the terrorist attacks...

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
ewing2001, Thu Mar 02 2006, 10:03PM

911'truth'.org continues to push "Able Danger" hangout

Though 911truth.org board member Nic Levis apparently reacts to some criticism by pointing out, that the 'Able Danger stories have the character of a "limited hangout", he actually reinforces the limited hangout and myth of an alleged hijacker 'job' by himself:

http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20060302155139342
March 2, 2006
".... That doesn't rule out theories that Atta and Co. were being set up as the patsies for an "inside job."...

On the "mystery woman", which team8plus member John Doe II will possibly pick up again in his currently very popular "alleged suspects folder":
http://www.team8plus.org/forum_viewforum.php?23

"...In the latest news, blog reporter Rory O'Connor (Mar 1, archived below) says a Pentagon inspector general's investigation has identified the person who provided Able Danger with Atta's name and photo. The photo was incorporated into Able Danger's organizational chart of alleged al Qaeda activities in the United States...

...The source of the photo, O'Connor now writes, is "a female contract employee of defense contractor Orion Scientific," nowadays a data-mining subsidiary of SRA with heavy Homeland Security involvements. This would appear to confirm an earlier assertion by Orion employee James D. Smith, who had also worked with Able Danger, "that Mr. Atta's name and photograph were obtained [in 2000] through a private researcher in California who was paid to gather the information from contacts in the Middle East." Since that story was already in the New York Times of Aug. 23, 2005, we wonder why it should take until now for a Pentagon inspector-general to "identify" someone who was working for the Pentagon in the first place.
http://summeroftruth.org/atta2.html#times82305

O'Connor does not name his source for the story, but his blog makes clear that he is in contact with Rep. Curt Weldon..."
(Source: http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/index.php?p=162#comments )

NOTE: Rory O’Connor is president and co-founder of the international media firm Globalvision and also oversees two Internet sites, the not-for-profit MediaChannel.org, and the Globalvision News Network.

http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/index.php?p=20

MediaChannel is also run by Danny Schecter, a well known leftgatekeeper, who is opposing "conspiracy theories about 9/11" and supports the official story about 9/11 and its limited hangout character.
[ Edited Thu Mar 02 2006, 05:19PM ]

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
PerpetualYnquisitive, Fri Mar 17 2006, 06:34AM

Atta, Weldon and Able Danger

The only thing that stinks worse than my vegetable bin is the latest attempt to spin away the Able Danger claim. For those of you who do not recall, Able Danger was the name of the Pentagon "data mining" unit which identified Mohammed Atta as a potential terrorist threat -- and even had his picture up on a flow chart -- well before 9/11. In fact, the team had placed Atta in the United States at a time when he was, according to the official chronology, in Germany.

That claim made Able Danger dangerous -- especially for Homeland Security head honcho Michael Chertoff. We'll get to that part of the story soon.

As long-time readers may recall, there was a period when I expressed some doubt about these allegations. They were first aired by a loose-cannon GOP congressman named Curt Weldon, whom the intelligence community obviously views as a useful idiot. If you are a military intelligence officer and you want to spread some alarming declaration (true or otherwise) about a proposed enemy du jour, simply schedule a "private" meeting with Weldon. Impressed by rank and tickled to be "on the inside," he'll rush to the nearest microphone.

The great virtue of such a tactic is that if a fake story falls apart -- or if a true story proves embarrassing and needs to be reeled back in -- all blame will go to Weldon. Not to his informants.

And that, apparently, is what's going on right now. The media tells us that the Able Danger tale has unraveled -- and sure enough, Curt Weldon finds himself on the business end of many an accusatory finger. It's all his fault.
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Why? Because James D. Smith, referenced above, also reported that Atta's name emerged during an examination of individuals connected to Omar Abdul Rahman, the "blind sheik" who helped mastermind the first World Trade Center bombing. That allegation sent the G.O.P. flacks into a spin-frenzy; for a while, they floated a "two Attas" theory. This absurd panic reaction occurred because Michael Chertoff, in private practice, represented one Magdy El-Amir, a New Jersey businessman long believed to have funded both Rahman and Al Qaida.
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Full article: http://tinyurl.com/jaa6b

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
ewing2001, Sat Mar 18 2006, 11:48AM

Curt "Able Danger' Weldon's latest embarrasment:
"Bin Laden died in Iran

Friday, March 17, 2006 6:40 a.m. EST
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/17/64243.shtml
Curt Weldon: Bin Laden Is Dead

Rep. Curt Weldon, who broke the Able Danger story last year revealing that
military intelligence had identified lead hijacker Mohamed Atta as a
terrorist threat before the 9/11 attacks, now says that Osama bin Laden has
died.

Weldon made the stunning claim during an interview Wednesday with the
Philadelphia Inquirer, which reported: "Weldon is making explosive new
allegations. He says a high-level source has told him that terrorist leader
Osama bin Laden has died in Iran, where he has been in hiding."

Weldon cited as his source an Iranian exile code-named Ali, telling the
paper: "Ali's told me that Osama bin Laden is dead. He died in Iran.

Weldon said he last spoke to Ali three weeks ago. The Iranian exile was a
prominent source for his 2005 book, "Countdown to Terror." ..."

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
freedomfiles, Sun Mar 19 2006, 02:18PM

My view on Able Danger - a scripted, fictional story drafted to support planned new strategies, any comments are welcome ;)

Problem: Military Intelligence is restrained by legal restrictions in the domestic gathering of intelligence and in the possibilities to share this intelligence with civilian law enforcement agencies and intelligence organisations

Reaction: Fictional Able Danger Story to create a popular justification for the new strategy in the media and public opinion

Solution: Strategy for Homeland Defense and Civil Support, elements of the 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review

Restraints are lifted, larger role for the Pentagon in domestic intelligence gathering, expanded possibilities to share information with civilian organisations, (partial) lifting of Posse Comitatus legislation

The Able Danger story was launched around the moment the US Administration released it's plans for an expanded domestic role for military intelligence services and increased cooperation between these service and civilian agencies (June 2005).

The story seemlessly fitted the strategy - if military intelligence had been allowed to gather domestic intelligence, and had been given the permission to share this intelligence with law enforcement agencies there would have been a chance that the 9/11 plot was unraveled before it happened and it could possibly have been prevented.

An excellent justification for the planned strategy.

Also, it is used in combination with the Northcom role in the Katrina disaster response to justify the (partial) lifting of Posse Comitatus (the legal constraints on domestic role of the Pentagon) ?

See my earlier posting in this thread for details on this strategy, and the larger Quadrennial Defense Review defense plans of the Pentagon :

Political Backgrounds of the Able Danger story
http://www.team8plus.org/forum_viewtopic.php?6.800.40

QDR 2005: The Perfect Storm ?
http://www.team8plus.org/forum_viewtopic.php?10.1255

In an earlier postings in this thread, an explanation was given about the supposed improved Able Danger program, "Able Providence" - it's all about domestic MI capabilities and cooperation with civilian law enforcement :

Able Providence, as the new program has been dubbed, would establish “robust open-source harvesting capabilities” to give military and law enforcement agencies the information to take the initiative in the war on terrorism—that is, to be able to plan and execute offensive measures—in addition to continued defensive actions.

I think this is a revival of past programs which enable MI to spy on the anti-war movement and other opponents, and to be able to use the gathered intelligence in court against these persons (wasn't this an issue in the Church Commission investigation in the seventies, as domestic intelligence was gathered on the anti-war movement and civil rights organisations in the Vietnam-war era, the Counter Intelligence Program or Cointelpro?).

Sun Mar 19 2006

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
ewing2001, Tue May 23 2006, 10:04PM

"Perception Management" -Pt.1

(*thx to Alex Constantine for this finding)

Wikipedia:

"The existence of Able Danger, and its purported early identification of the 9/11 terrorists, was FIRST DISCLOSED publicly on June 19, 2005 in an article 'Missed chance on way to 9/11' by KEITH PHUCAS (kphucas @timesherald.com ), a reporter for The TIMES HERALD, a Norristown, Pennsylvania daily newspaper."

The head of Mr. Phucas on a platter:

Keith Phucas Letter
http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/3833

Even Academics Should See That Ousting Saddam Hussein
is a Moral Imperative

Reader comment on article: Profs Who Hate America

Submitted by Keith Phucas, Nov 13, 2002 at 01:22

The antiwar protests seem like deja vu to me, except that now I'm on the other side of the argument.

I grew up in the 1960s and opposed the Vietnam War. I still feel it was the wrong policy. When I started college in 1972, the U.S. was still in Vietnam, and Pres. Nixon was demonized.

Now I'm for a war against the Iraqi regime, and for the first time in my life, I'm supporting a Republican president.

To me, any military action to oust Saddam Hussein would be a highly just cause. This Stalinist dictator has terrorized Iraqis for much too long. And by
defying the U.N. sanctions repeatedly, he deserves to be dealt with aggressively. This view should transcend liberal or conservative politics. In fact, Congress passed the Iraqi Liberation Act during Clinton's administration. The longer we put off dealing decisively with Hussein, the worse we look.

Is antiwar sentiment really the majority view on campuses today? Or, do a few outspoken professors make
it SEEM as if most professors are against a military
action in Iraq?

It seems like the left is trying hard to reinvigorate
itself, but to me the antiwar effort comes off as
hopelessly lame. I would almost expect shortsighted
protests from college sophmores but not from their
professors.

Keith Phucas
The Times Herald
Norristown, Pa.

Note: Opinions expressed in comments are those of the authors alone and not necessarily those of Daniel Pipes....

Neocon journalist deceives '9/11 truthling':
Keith Phucas From The Times Herald Interviews Jon Gold
http://www.yourbbsucks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10110
Friday, May 12, 2006
http://www.911podcasts.com/files/audio/phucasgold911.mp3

More on Keith Phucas
(*thx to Alex Constantine)

"No doubt, high technology will continue to play a key
role in the nation's security and its new war." -
Keith Phucas
http://tinyurl.com/mxbd8 (zwire.com)
High spies
KEITH PHUCAS, Times Herald Staff 10/01/2001

[Back in June, Edward Reese sat in his Lockheed Martin office in King of Prussia reminiscing in broad terms about how his pioneering work on a large computer system for a classified satellite program had helped keep the Soviet Union in check during the Cold War.

In order to keep the nation safe from the Soviet threat, it had been crucial for the United States government to keep an eye on Russia's fighting capability from space. The U.S. intelligence agencies had to stay a step ahead of the U.S.'s communist nemesis.

"You don't want to be surprised," Reese said. "You don't want another Pearl Harbor." Little did he know how prophetic his remarks would become a few months later.

On Sept. 11, the terrorist hijackings of four commercial jet airliners - since dubbed this generation's Pearl Harbor - destroyed the World Trade Center towers in New York City, heavily damaged the Pentagon outside Washington and killed more than 6,000 people at last count...

...Looking back, the Cold War engineers, along with thousands of their GE colleagues, associate defense contractors and government counterparts, had fought a long, bloodless war not with big guns, but with long hours, teamwork, extraordinary technical ingenuity and business acumen.

"We won the Cold War with technology," Gispan said.

Just as the attack on Pearl Harbor tested America's resolve on Dec. 7, 1941, the new war to eradicate America's terrorist enemies will compel a shocked
nation to find more effective ways to defend its homeland.

No doubt, high technology will continue to play a key role in the nation's security and its new war...


Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
ewing2001, Tue May 23 2006, 10:33PM

The background of Times Herald-
how Robert M. Jelenic and JRC (Journal Register Company) took over

Alex Constantine wrote:

"...Journal Register Co, owns the Norristown paper that Keith Phucas works for, w/ CEO Robert Jelenic, brought in by the investment firm of Warburg Pincus to run the ailing newspaper chain..."

...i furthermore found this:
7 months after the first attack on the Twin Towers (February 26, 1993)
the takeover of independent papers began...

http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3246
AJR, May 1999
Continuation of The Selling Of Small-town America


...Kathy Morris, controller at the Times Herald in Norristown, Pennsylvania, from 1993 to 1996, recalls the time Jelenic demanded a monthly bottom-line figure by 8:30 p.m. on a Friday night--two days early...

...While Journal Register may have merely chipped away at some papers, the Times Herald in Norristown, a suburb of Philadelphia, got the ax.
On JRC's first day at the helm, September 27, 1993--still known there as "takeover day"--the company fired 25 employees...

http://www.journalregister.com/press/010306.html

Journal Register Company is a leading U.S. newspaper publishing company. Journal Register
Company owns 27 daily newspapers, including the New Haven Register, Connecticut’s second
largest daily and Sunday newspaper, and 338 non-daily publications...

http://www.journalregister.com/newspapers.html

The Jelenic Arthur Andersen - Trenton links
http://tinyurl.com/jq5me (forbes.com)
Robert M Jelenic

CEO/Chairman of the Board/Director at
Journal Register Co
Trenton, New Jersey

ROBERT M. JELENIC is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Mr. Jelenic was President and Chief Executive Officer from the inception of the Company to June 2005 and has been Chairman of the
Company since 1997. Mr. Jelenic has also been a director of the Company and its predecessors for over ten years. A Chartered Accountant, Mr. Jelenic began his business career with Arthur Andersen in Toronto, Canada.

Mr. Jelenic has 29 years of senior management experience in the newspaper industry, including 12 years with the Toronto Sun Publishing Corp.

Re: "Able Danger" vs. Curt Weldon- Propaganda Hoax or Truth?
ewing2001, Wed May 24 2006, 02:41AM

(*thx to Alex Constantine)

More on the Times Herald, first printed by Benjamin
Franklin ... Keith Phucas's editor is STAN HUSKEY. His
writing is obscene:

" ... I think people should support the president of
the United States because he is the president...."

Huskey is a Bush-hugger, propagandist and liar, as
you'll find here:
--------------
http://www.zwire.com/site/printerFriendly.cfm?brd=1672&dept_id=549134&newsid=16037568

01/31/2006
Conservative voice alive in media
By: Stan Huskey, Times Herald Editor

"Live free or die," the state slogan of New Hampshire, should be contemplated by everyone at least once a year... there are some in this country who would have us stand by while others live oppressed lives much as our forefathers did before they decided enough was enough.

We shouldn't be in Iraq, they whine. They don't want us there. Really? Eleven million out of the 15 million registered voters who turned out to take part in the democratic process would lead me to believe otherwise.... There is a conservative voice in the media and you have it right here in your newspaper. I will continue to fight the good fight for our readers
and will assure all of you that all media is not sitting on the left side of the aisle. ... I think we should shut off our borders to illegal immigrants. Not
because I don't like people from foreign countries, but because I don't like supporting people who don't pay their fair share in taxes.... Stan Huskey is the editor of The Times Herald. He can be reached at 610-272-2500 ext. 215
-----------
Here, a source catches Huskey lying in print ...

http://pbagosy.livejournal.com/tag/media

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

Rethug editor puts words in my mouth and doesn't even credit me.

Stan Huskey, right wing-nut and editor of theTimes-Herald (to which I subscribe), has responded to my letter (here), but was too pussy to print it in its entirety, or even mention me by name. In fact, most of his column was his email response to me spliced in with my original letter.

"However, a gentleman from Norristown took the conversation just a step or two further when he attempted to explained to me the differences between
Democrats and Republicans. In doing so, he inadvertently pointed out that there are a great many similarities."

I wouldn't have though he was talking about me until he quotes me at the end of the next paragraph. I, neither intentionally nor unintentionally pointed out similarities between Republicans and Democrats. In fact, I didn't even mention Democrats....
Posted by Alex Constantine at Friday, November 24, 2006

http://alexconstantine.blogspot.com/2006/11/terrible-and-documented-truth-about.html

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