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October 21, 2005
Able Danger in the news
Conservative columnistJ. Grant Swank Jr. gives a running commentary on Weldon's speech:
If what US Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA) says is true about the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), America has been wearing a blindfold so as not to see the truth about 9 / 11 prevention.Weldon, Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security Committee, addressed the House of Representatives. He exposed the DIA as a perpetrator of deceit and intentionally destroying the reputation of a reputable American so that the latter would not be able to tell the truth. He is LTC Anthony Shaffer, a 23-year defense intelligence officer, whom the DIA has sought to smear.
...Just months ago, Weldon stated he discovered that Able Danger "actually identified the Brooklyn cell of al Qaeda in January and February 2000, over 1 year before 9 / 11 ever happened. In addition, I learned that not only did we identify the Brooklyn cell of al Qaeda, but we identified Mohamed Atta as one of the members of that Brooklyn cell along with three other terrorists who were the leadership of the 9/11 attack."
I was hoping someone would point out it was not just "4 of the 19".
Shaun Waterman has an updated piece for the UPI, but I have no idea who carries the UPI other than the Washington Times, and they have not picked up the story yet. Anyway, here is the article:
“There is something outrageous at work here,” Weldon said. “Mr. Speaker, we could ignore this. I cannot. If it means I have to resign from this body, I will resign.”After the speech, Weldon told reporters he had written to the inspector-general of the Department of Defense to ask for “an immediate formal inquiry, with people testifying under oath” into what he called “a clear witch-hunt” against Shaffer.
In a turn of events that clearly outraged Weldon, Shaffer said boxes of his personal effects, returned to him by the DIA earlier this month, contained both government property and classified documents.
“Sending classified material through the mail is a felony, and much more serious than any of these minor, trumped-up charges against [Shaffer],” Weldon said, adding that “I want the appropriate persons held accountable.”
A DIA spokesman told ISN Security Watch that the agency had indeed mailed Shaffer his personal effects from his workspace at the DIA. “We’re not aware of any classified material being included in that shipment,” said the spokesman. He had no immediate comment on any of Weldon’s other charges.
Canada Free Press also has a story on the speech:
Was it a typo or a boast in code from Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) arsenal when the word "Abel" somehow replaced "Able", as in Able Danger in the published text from Rep. Curt Weldon’s defense of Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer on the House Floor yesterday?Able was spelled Abel several times in the typed transcript from Weldon’s hour-long plea to Congressmen for a new probe into what he says is a "witch-hunt by defense officials against a September 11 intelligence whistleblower" (Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer).
Able Danger was the elite, 20-member, highly classified U.S. Army Intelligence program under the command of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) that identified Mohammed Atta and three other 9/11 hijackers more than a year before the attack only to have their intelligence blocked by lawyers in the Bill Clinton administration,
And now it’s happening again to what Weldon says could be "a second pot of information". Only this time it’s defense officials and lawyers blocking the truth from coming out.
Biblical brother Abel was the first recorded murder, as related in the Book of Genesis, Chapter 4:1 through 4:16. Abel was toiling in the field when his brother, Cain rose up against him and slew him.
There are enough twists and turns in the Able Danger story without boasts in code.
Am I my brother's keeper? It looks like it was only mispelled twice, toward the end of page one of five. I wouldn't make too much of it.
Posted by Mike at October 21, 2005 11:49 AM
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