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August 14, 2005

The 9/11 Omission: Able Danger

Posted by Eric at 2:37 pm. Filed under: General

Shrink Wrapped says:

I can only conclude that the mental set of the 9/11 Omission members either actively or passively lead them to not see crucial information that would have changed the entire discussion of 9/11, the Iraq War, the Patriot Act, and almost everything else that has gone on since the World Trade Centers came crashing down.

Captain Ed on other omissions:

Not one word of this gets addressed in the final Commission report, as far as I can tell. The report contains thirty-one references to arrests, most of them for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Zacarias Moussaoui, but none of them mention any German arrests of Iraqi spies in Germany for March 2001. It isn’t as if the 9/11 Commission considered Al-Watan al-Arabi an unreliable source, either; they used it as a reference for an editorial by Saudi Prince Bandar.

Dr. Sanity and others want to know what was in Sandy Berger’s socks.

Yes, let’s see the documents. Let’s put everything on the table and look at it. Many of us were not happy with the way the 9/11 Commission staged it’s hearings. 3-Ring Circuses displayed more decorum and less grandstanding.

And Michelle has a good roundup, and Strata-Sphere has an extensive timeline summary.

And this morning, Captain Ed tears into the 9/11 commission’s official response.

Clearly the Commission has little credibility left. Five days ago, no one could remember the July 2004 briefing, and the Commission only admitted to it when pressed by the New York Times. Four days later, they have a prepared rebuttal with everything but pictures showing how they gave the allegations serious consideration but ultimately rejected it. Why? As I posted yesterday, the naval officer did not have any documentation with him — which would, incidentally, have landed him in Leavenworth for life — and the time frame didn’t match up with the Commission’s understanding of when Atta entered the US.

Jim Geraghty says the ball is in Weldon’s court now.

Of course, everything they’re saying completely contradicts what Rep. Curt Weldon and the unnamed military intelligence officer said. As for the Navy officer who told them about Able Danger finding Atta in 2000, the commission’s statement kind of makes him sound like a fruitcake.


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