[Please forward and post widely -- Watch Rep. Weldon's press conference at C-SPAN.org -- Call C-SPAN and urge them to air it prime time on C-SPAN1 - see contact details below.]
The Able Danger scandal and cover-up is mushrooming into a cloud that now looms over the 9/11 Commission, the DOD, and the DIA. Rep. Curt Weldon said, "to me this is the most important story of my lifetime." He talked about friends he lost on September 11th. He raged and attacked the 9/11 Commission for omitting Able Danger. The day before yesterday's press conference he accused former Commission Vice-Chair Hamilton of lying to protect the Bush administration as reported by Govexec.com; that's right, the Bush Administration. 9/11 has truly turned the world upside down. Hopefully, the mainstream press will catch up and recognize how big a story this is and how serious the charges are. Once eyes turn back to 9/11 and the integrity of the Commission is seriously, rightly and broadly questioned, there will be many other still unanswered questions raised about the attacks and the flawed findings of the 9/11 Report and calls for further investigation. As Joe Wilson pointed out to the Washington Post not long after his famous op-ed exposing the Yellowcake farce, "if they lied to us about this, what else are they lying to us about?"
Currently there are two committees in the Senate and four in the House investigating Able Danger and as of yesterday the Inspector General at the Pentagon is investigating as well. But still the key witnesses are effectively gagged by the DOD. In response, Rep. Weldon yesterday initiated a petition, already signed by over 100 of his colleagues, calling upon the DOD to permit testimony of Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, Captain Scott Phillpott, and the other witnesses.
Weldon leveled allegations against former 9/11 staffer Dietrich Snell who interviewed the Able Danger team leader Phillpott tens days before the release of the 9/11 Report and who heard from Phillpott that indeed they had identified Atta. Given that Snell is now at NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's office in NYC, there is a new opportunity to demand Spitzer dispell any questions of conflict of interest and act upon the extensive 9/11 Complaint brought by families and victims filed with his office last Fall. See Justice for 9/11 -- Solidarity Petition -- [www.Justicefor911.org] (Perhaps someone should sue the Commissioners for fraud for starters.) In response to Phillpott's putting his career on the line with his private testimony regarding Atta and the obstructions they encountered in getting this to the FBI, Snell asked Phillpott, "What do you want to do with this information, we are going to print in 10 days?" Well, we know that neither Roemer (a Dem) nor Lehman (a Republican) were briefed and neither the Report nor the Post Report 'monographs' made any mention of Able Danger.
Please call your representatives in Congress (see number below) and ask them to sign Rep. Weldon's petition so that the American people can hear the truth from those that identified Atta, Al-Sheehi, Al-Hazmi, and Al-Mihdhar a full year before the attacks and who experienced repeated obstructions in trying to bring this information forward to the FBI and who can speak to who ignored this intelligence and tried to bury it, repeatedly.
Below are a few select quotes from Rep. Weldon's press conference yesterday followed by links to additional source material.
Thank you for your concern and dedication to finding the truth. It is never too late to set the record straight and hold those responsible to account.
Kyle F. Hence
9/11 CitizensWatch
For extensive resources and articles on Able Danger visit:
9/11 CitizensWatch :: We are concerned citizens challenging the official story of 9/11
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Weldon: "There is a cover-up here. It is clear. It is unequivocal.
I have no other recourse but to ask for a criminal investigation.
The 9/11 Commission refers to Able Danger as historically insignificant.
It is my contention that there was a deliberate attempt to not have this story told to the American people.
There is no mention of Able Danger in the entire 9/11 Commission Report.
There's been nothing but denial and spin since the story broke in the first week of August. Denial and Spin.
You know Richard Nixon had to resign from office because he tried to cover up a third-rate burglary. No one was injured. No money was stolen. No one was killed. Here we have a cover-up of the single largest incident in the history of our nation...[might be missing rest of this quote?]
This story is about intimidation, it's about harassment, it's about ruining the career of a professional military officer. It's about denying the American people the basic facts of what happened to 3000 human beings and 17 sailors. It is unacceptable. It's outrageous. It's un-American. It's undemocratic, it's not what our country stands for.
The 9/11 Commission missed the boat. They flubbed it. They have no credibility on this issue whatsoever.
It's only a matter of time before this story is going to come out.
I can't believe the mainstream media turns its head and does nothing to investigate this."
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While it is still posted online at C-SPAN please take the time to see Rep. Weldon's press conference yesterday and send C-SPAN a polite note asking give the press conference an appropriate prime time billing on C-SPAN1 -- remind them we are talking a cover-up of an operation that could easily have foiled the worst terrorist attack and mass murder on U.S. soil in U.S. history :
Rep. Kurt Weldon (R-PA) on Able Danger Investigation
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Representative Curt Weldon (R-PA) talks about the Able Danger investigation.
11/9/2005: WASHINGTON, DC: 47 min.
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Capitol Hill Switchboard: 202-224-3121
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CLICK TO READ: New Skirmish in War Over 9/11 Information by Rory O'Connor
Congressman Challenges Department of Defense
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Pentagon probes treatment of 'Able Danger' officer
Reuters -- Wed Nov 9, 2005 7:32 PM ET
CLICK TO READ: 9/11 CitizensWatch - Pentagon probes treatment of 'Able Danger' Officer by David Morgan
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Rep. Curt Weldon on Lou Dobbs (CNN)
CLICK TO READ: Transcript: Weldon Discusses Recent Developments with Able Danger on Lou Dobbs Tonight (CNN)
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