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October 08, 2005
Weldon confirms Able Danger predicted Cole attack
I have a renewed respect for Congressman Weldon. It looks like not even the risk of losing a brand new $20 billion defense contract for his district can keep him quiet about Able Danger.
This video from Fox News Weekend Live, via QT Monster, says it all.
On October 7th, Weldon sent Rumsfeld a letter that reads in part:
You know as well as I that inside the Beltway, there is a time-honored tradition of smearing the accuser rather than answering the charge. That method is now apparently being employed in your department, and while it may be a familiar way of doing business in Washington, it is no less disappointing.
More significantly, Weldon then went on to tell Fox News viewers:
Catherine Herridge: Final question sir, we've made much of the fact that members of Able Danger claim that they identified Atta a year before the attacks, but not many people realize that the same project using similar data was able to identify a threat in Yemen a few months before the USS Cole was attacked. Do you believe that this is highly significant?Curt Weldon: Absolutely, and the 9/11 Commission to call Able Danger historically insignificant is outrageous. It's going to come out eventually, Catherine, that we'll see that Able Danger not only knew about Mohamed Atta and the Brooklyn Cell one year before 9/11, but two weeks before the attack on the Cole, in fact, two days before the attack on the Cole, they 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. That story has yet to be told to the American people. Another Able Danger successful activity that was thwarted.
Posted by Mike at October 8, 2005 03:38 PM
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