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October 30, 2005

Tim Roemer on Lou Dobbs

Not much news here, but I found another Lou Dobbs transcript I missed from October 19th:

DOBBS: Congressman Curt Weldon, Tim, has made a very primary issue out of a secret Pentagon report. Why is there no mention of Able Danger in the 9/11 Report? Can you answer that for us?

ROEMER: Absolutely, Lou. Congressman Weldon has said that there was a chart that identified Atta before 9/11. If we would have seen that chart, if there was a chart that existed and it was put before the 9/11 Commission, it'd probably be front and center on this book because what we say in our book is government failed to communicate and share information.

Able Danger may have put together some good information. We have not seen a chart, however, that would have said Atta was somebody that was a terrorist identified before 9/11.

The DOD, Defense Department has looked for this chart. They haven't found it. The White House has looked for it. They haven't found it. It doesn't exist.

DOBBS: But the Pentagon at the same time, Tim, as you know, has stopped two of the principal witnesses here -- the DOD has stopped them from ever moving forward with their further public statements.

Is there anything that the Congress should be doing right now? Because some of the coincidence, after being told that Able Danger material was not put before the commission, occurred twice, once in October of 2003, which happens to be the same period that Sandy Berger, the Clinton administration's former national security adviser was accused of destroying documents. It's led to all sorts of speculation about what was destroyed, how it related to the Pentagon's secret project, Able Danger, and what it knew about Mohammed Atta.

ROEMER: Well, first of all, Lou, let's be very clear. The information with Sandy Berger had nothing to do with -- we got all that information in the 9/11 Commission, so there's no issue there.

With respect to Able Danger or data mining, you know, trying to piece together information that terrorists are talking to certain people, and they put together these spider diagrams to show how they communicate, who they communicate with, that's a very, very valuable mechanism for us to track terrorists.

We do it at the CIA, we do it at the FBI. Those are valuable means purportedly we were doing at Able Danger and DOD. It's not as if it was only going on at DOD.

What Congressman Weldon and others have claimed -- and I'd love to see the chart. I'd love to see the evidence, where's the beef of this? I'd love to see it. DOBBS: So would all Americans.

Tim Roemer, we thank you for what you're doing, what you've accomplished, and we wish you luck going forward.

ROEMER: Thank you, sir.

DOBBS: Tim Roemer.

Posted by Mike at October 30, 2005 06:01 PM

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