COVER ATTA FACE WITH YELLOW POST IT Schoomaker & Zelikow

by **seemslikeadream** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:17 pm

<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/24/124834/678">www.dailykos.com/storyonl...124834/678</a> <img src="http://www.gsnmagazine.com/images/aug_05/atta.jpg" style="border:0;"/> Must Read! The Neo-Con Able Danger Scandal -- Atta Coverup! UPDATE 4 by Sherlock Google Wed Aug 24th, 2005 at 09:48:33 PDT DIA Agents were ordered to put yellow Post-its over Atta's face and the face's of 3 other 9/11 terrorists "We were directed to take those 3M yellow stickers and place them over the faces of Atta and the other terrorists and pretend they didn't exist," the intelligence officer told GSN." Intel agents Michael Shaffer and Scott Philpott have confirmed Rep. Weldon's claims that a chart with Atta's face, soon the photos of 3 other members of the 9-11 terror team, were known to DIA team Able Danger by early 2000. This diary will show that Pete Schoomaker and Philip Zelikow are two of the main Perpetraitors in this scandal, that they deliberately withheld information from the President of the United States that would have prevented 9/11, that they and their neo-con rulers Let It Happen On Purpose. Of this there can no longer be any doubt. Sherlock Google's diary :: :: Update [2005-8-24 15:35:46 by Sherlock Google]: From the Aug. 10 NY Times on Shaffer trying to include Able Danger in the final 9-11 Commission Report: The Sept. 11 commission was warned by a uniformed military officer 10 days before issuing its final report that the account would be incomplete without reference to what he described as a secret military operation that by the summer of 2000 had identified as a potential threat the member of Al Qaeda who would lead the attacks more than a year later, commission officials said on Wednesday. Aug 10 NY Times Update [2005-8-24 15:35:46 by Sherlock Google]: From the Commission Statement on Able Danger: The records discuss a set of plans, beginning in 1999, for ABLE DANGER, which involved expanding knowledge about the al Qaeda network. Some documents include diagrams of terrorist networks. None of the documents turned over to the Commission mention Mohamed Atta or any of the other future hijackers. Nor do any of the staff notes on documents reviewed in the DOD reading room indicate that Mohamed Atta or any of the other future hijackers were mentioned in any of those documents. A senior staff member also made verbal inquiries to the HPSCI and CIA staff for any information regarding the ABLE DANGER operation. Neither organization produced any documents about the operation, or displayed any knowledge of it. Update [2005-8-24 15:43:9 by Sherlock Google]: The 9-11 Families respond to the Able Danger news: A group of Sept. 11 widows called the September 11th Advocates issued a statement Wednesday saying they were "horrified" to learn that further possible evidence exists, and they are disappointed the Sept. 11 commission report is "incomplete and illusory." "The revelation of this information demands answers that are forthcoming, clear and concise," the statement said. "The Sept. 11 attacks could have and should have been prevented." Fox News Zelikow, as Executive Director, managed to keep the Commission from seeing the truth. Update [2005-8-24 16:49:54 by Sherlock Google]: Here is the Gorelick Memo on The Wall. Read it for yourself and you will see that in no way does it prevent the DIA folks from telling the FBI about Atta getting ready to spring a possible attack: The Gorelick Wall Memo We have to learn a whole lot of ACRONYMS here but it's clear that information about a crime that "may be committed" is supposed to be "disseminated" to criminal investigators! Read it yourself. From JusticeWatch.org: The "Wall." The "wall" metaphor is shorthand for the recognition that separate authorities govern law enforcement and foreign intelligence investigations targeted against Americans. These authorities, designed to prevent a recurrence of domestic spying by the FBI and CIA, always recognized that international terrorism was both a law enforcement and intelligence matter. Contrary to the repeated mischaracterization by the Attorney General and others, the law never prohibited sharing information between law enforcement and intelligence communities; to the contrary, it expressly provided for such sharing. While the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was interpreted to mean that prosecutors could not direct foreign intelligence wiretaps, as opposed to criminal wiretaps, the 9/11 failures had nothing whatsoever to do with the inability of prosecutors to direct such surveillance. Justice Watch ---------------------------------- From the Government Security News mag which broke the story: Did DoD lawyers blow the chance to nab Atta? By Jacob Goodwin In September 2000, one year before the Al Qaeda attacks of 9/11, a U.S. Army military intelligence program, known as "Able Danger," identified a terrorist cell based in Brooklyn, NY, one of whose members was 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta, and recommended to their military superiors that the FBI be called in to "take out that cell," according to Rep. Curt Weldon, a longtime Republican congressman from Pennsylvania who is currently vice chairman of both the House Homeland Security and House Armed Services Committees. The recommendation to bring down that New York City cell -- in which two other Al Qaeda terrorists were also active -- was not pursued during the weeks leading up to the 2000 presidential election, said Weldon. That's because Mohammed Atta possessed a "green card" at the time and Defense Department lawyers did not want to recommend that the FBI go after someone holding a green card, Weldon told his House colleagues last June 27 during a little-noticed speech, known as a "special order," which he delivered on the House floor. Details of the origins and efforts of Able Danger were corroborated in a telephone interview by GSN with a former defense intelligence officer who said he worked closely with that program. That intelligence officer, who spoke to GSN while sitting in Rep. Weldon's Capitol Hill office, requested anonymity for fear that his current efforts to help re-start a similar intelligence-gathering operation might be hampered if his identity becomes known. The intelligence officer recalled carrying documents to the offices of Able Danger, which was being run by the Special Operations Command, headquartered in Tampa, FL. The documents included a photo of Mohammed Atta supplied by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and described Atta's relationship with Osama bin Laden. The officer was very disappointed when lawyers working for Special Ops decided that anyone holding a green card had to be granted essentially the same legal protections as any U.S. citizen. Thus, the information Able Danger had amassed about the only terrorist cell they had located inside the United States could not be shared with the FBI, the lawyers concluded. "We were directed to take those 3M yellow stickers and place them over the faces of Atta and the other terrorists and pretend they didn't exist," the intelligence officer told GSN. DoD lawyers may also have been reluctant to suggest a bold action by FBI agents after the bureau's disastrous 1993 strike against the Branch Davidian religious cult in Waco, TX, said Weldon and the intelligence officer. Government Security News So the responsibility for stopping DIA program Able Danger, which had Identified Atta and 3 other hijackers and linked them to 56 other al-Queda terrorists overseas, has been laid at the feet of Bill Clinton--except he and Richard Clarke were never told about it at all. That's right. Bill Clinton was never told about Able Danger and the ID of Atta because Richard Clarke was never told about AD. How do I know? He never wrote about it in his book, nor did he testify about it's existence before the 9-11 Commission! You see Richard Clarke was known for being obsesses with Osama Bin Laden and HE was the guy the neo-con moles did not want to know about Atta and the gang. Schoomaker and the neo-cons knew telling the FBI would inform Clarke and then Mr. Laser Beam himself, President of the United State William Jefferson Clinton, would have gotten involved--and the Pearl Harbor-type attack would never take place (the neo-cons talked about the need for a Pearl Harbor-type attack before the PNAC Plan would be accepted by the American people--so when one presented itself, they let it happen). General Pete Schoomaker, who were later heavily rewarded by the neo-cons in the Bush Administration, blocked the upward motion of the DIA information by having Shaffer and Philpott meet with Pentagon lawyers opinions--lawyers who were rubberstamping ridiculous legal opinions to carry out the neo-con plan. These certain people were neo-cons in the Clinton Administration, covertly carrying out the PNAC plan to let a Pearl Harbor-type attack occur so Iraq and 6 other countries could be invaded. HOW DARE WELDON AND THE RIGHT WING TRY TO LAY ABLE DANGER AT THE FEET OF BILL CLINTON, WHEN HE WAS DELIBERATELY PREVENTED FROM KNOWING ABOUT IT BY SCHOOMAKER AND THE OTHERS! THEN THE NEO-CONS ENDED THE PROGRAM IN FEB. 2001 ALTOGETHER! The heroic intel agents of Able Danger repeatedly tried to get the FBI to roll up the cell but were stopped by the secret neo-con cell within the Clinton Administration, especially General Pete Schoomaker, in command of Able Danger--and who was later asked by Rumsfeld to come out of retirement and replace Shinseki in 2003 as Army Chief of Staff! Pete Schoomaker, Perpetraitor Schoomaker, who worked under neo-con Tommy Franks in Tampa, retired in December of 2000. The indicted Larry Franklin was another neo-con in the Clinton Administration. Schoomaker repeatedly told Philpott and Shaffer that they could not inform the FBI as DoD lawyers had opined that Atta's Green Card made him a "US Person", that the so-called "Gorelick Wall" prevented talking to the FBI--even though Atta was part of al-Queda. Shaffer and Philpott were actually ordered to put yellow sticky pads over the faces of the 4 terrorists on their Analyst Notebook chart and act as thought they don't exist. (Analyst Notebook is software). "The former defense intelligence official, who was interviewed twice this week, has repeatedly said that Mr. Atta and four others were identified on a chart presented to the Special Operations Command. The former official said the chart identified about 60 probable members of Al Qaeda." [NY Times Archive 8/13/05] Here is Captain Scott Philpott as blogger Anon on Intel Dump talking about meeting the DoD lawyers, who had no doubt been ordered by higher-ups to ignore the clear exception to the Gorelick Wall that a terrorist presented: I was there and I lived through the ABLE DANGER nightmare. First - yes - The lawyers involved in this (and similar projects) did interpret the 9-11 terrorists as "US persons" - so while you can second guess them all you want - but that was their "legal" call as wrong as it was and is. Unfortunately, the chain of command at SOCOM went along with them (and this, I expect, will be a topic that will become more clear in the near future). And lawyers of the era also felt that any intelligence officer viewing open internet information for the purpose of intelligence collection automatically required that any "open source" information obtained be treated as if it was "intelligence information"...does this sound like idiocy to you? It did to me - and we fought it - and I was in meetings at the OSD level, with OSD laywers, that debated this - and I even briefed the DCI George Tenet on this issue relating to an internet project. And yes, Virgina - we tried to tell the lawyers that since the data identified Atta and the others as linked to Al Qaeda, we should be able to collect on them based on SecState Albright's declaration of Al Qaeda as transnational terrorist threat to the US...well the lawyers did not agree...go figure...so we could not collect on them - and for political reasons - could not pass them to the FBI...I know because I brokered three meetings between the FBI and SOCOM to allow SOCOM to pass the informaton to the FBI. And, sadly, SOCOM cancelled them every time... Intel Dump Blogger Anon So Schoomaker and the Pentagon lawyers blocked the Atta Chart and request for arrest of the "Brooklyn Cell" from going to the FBI, Clarke and Clinton--who would have acted on it--and 9-11 would likely have never happened, with 3 of the 4 pilots and the leader of the gang arrested. But then the neo-cons stole the election and came into power proper with Bush, Rice and Cheney. Rice, in charge of the transition, demoted Richard Clarke on Jan. 5, 2001, with the assistance of Philip Zelikow, who later became Executive Director of the 9-11 Commission! Like Schoomaker, Zelikow has now been rewarded with a plum job, directly under Rice at State. Able Danger was then "unceremoniously axed" by the DoD in February 2001 when the neo-cons officially took over the Pentagon, no doubt on the orders of Cheney and Rice. From the Norristown Times-Herald in Weldon's district: A small group of Defense Intelligence Agency employees ran the Able Danger operation from fall 1999 to February 2001 - just seven months before the terrorist attacks - when the operation was unceremoniously axed, according to a former defense intelligence official familiar with the program. The former official asked not to be identified. Norristown paper August 17 article Shaffer confirms this end date: The objective of "Able Danger" was to identify and target al-Qaeda and other terrorists. The DIA team used data mining, parallel processing and other cutting-edge computer technology from 1999 through early 2001, Shaffer said. Times Herald again Many other counter-terror programs were ended or stalled at the same time, including the use of the armed Predator Drone, which had spotted Osama and could have killed him, as well as new off-shore banking regs that Clinton had passed and FBI investigations of the Saudis and the Bin Ladens. Even though on Jan 31, 2001, the Congress approved the Hart Rudman counter-terror recommendations, including cockpit door hardening, Bush fought implementation by stalling, handing it to Cheney in May and saying he would issue a counter-terror plan--in October 2001, the month AFTER the 9-11 attack. Rep. Weldon, a proponent of data-mining, had been following the Able Danger program for years and had talked to Stephen Hadley--he of 16-word fame--soon after 9-11, that Able Danger had identified the same terrorists early in the game. Hadley, second at NSC under Rice, sat on the information on Able Danger--which of course he knew about anyway--and then NEVER TOLD THE 9-11 COMMISSION. Another major part of the treason is the Perpetraitor Zelikow, Executive Director of the 9-11 Commission, and the man who helped Rice and Cheney establish the neo-con agenda and demote Richard. Appointed by Bush to the 9-11 Commission to investigate himself essentially--and Bob Kerrey objected strenuously to Zelikow as a conflict (then gave up)--the Executive Director has tremendous power over staff and direction of the Commission and its report. Philip Zelikow committed treason, when as Executive Director, he was directly told about Able Danger, then he and his direct staff covered up the information from the rest of the 9-11 Commission as they have said they were never told about it. When the Able Danger agents called up the Commission 10 days before the publication of the Report, they were blown off for the umpteenth time. Here is the 9-11 Commission's own statement on Able Danger: On October 21, 2003, Philip Zelikow, the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, two senior Commission staff members, and a representative of the executive branch, met at Bagram Base, Afghanistan, with three individuals doing intelligence work for the Department of Defense. One of the men, in recounting information about al Qaeda's activities in Afghanistan before 9/11, referred to a DOD program known as ABLE DANGER. He said this program was now closed, but urged Commission staff to get the files on this program and review them, as he thought the Commission would find information about al Qaeda and Bin Ladin that had been developed before the 9/11 attack. Then Zelikow sat on the Able Danger info. Shaffer on CNN said: The other thing is Mr. Zelicow (ph) himself gave me his card and asked me to contact him upon my return from the deployment. And I did contact him in January of '04. That's where I was essentially blown off. I called him. They said they wanted to talk to me. I waited a week, called him back. And they said, "No, we don't need to talk to you now." Now, Soledad, I'm sorry. I forgot your first part of the question you asked before. S. O'BRIEN: You know, we're actually kind of running out of time. SHAFFER: OK. S. O'BRIEN: But I was essentially asking you if they were lying, which is sort of a yes or no answer there. SHAFFER: I can't -- I'm just letting you know what I -- what I said. I said, specifically, that we, as through the Able Danger process, discovered two of the three cells which conducted 9/11, to include Atta. Now -- and I -- that was, to me, significant, in that they actually pulled me aside after the meeting and said, "Please come talk to us and give us more details." Then Zelikow NEVER calls Shaffer or Philpott back! The flimsy excuses for that are covered in TopDog's recommended diary, and are all lies anyhow: Rice aide hid disbandment of Atta's trackers from 9/11 report Finally, here is Lee Hamilton of the 9-11 Commission: "The Sept. 11th commission did not learn of any U.S. government knowledge prior to 9/11 of the surveillance of Mohamed Atta or his cell," Hamilton said. "Had we learned of it obviously it would have been a major focus of our investigation." So there you have it. If this is e-mailed to 100 people and all the blogs and media by each person here on KOS and we pick this apart endlessly, all the evidence is there. The greatest scandal in the history of the United States of America. This has to be the end of the Republican Party as the majority party for some time to come. And only we bloggers can blow this thing wide open. There is much, much more to this but I will post them on updates. And anybody who now doubts Shaffer AND Philpott is carrying skepticism too far and is likely a RW troll absolutely HORRIFIED at the turn the Able Danger story has now taken. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4447706&mesg_id=4447706 Edited by: <A HREF=http://p097.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=seemslikeadream@rigorousintuition>seemslikeadream</A> at: 8/24/05 6:09 pm

by **Qutb** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:14 pm

Holy Christ & Co... YELLOW POST-ITS?? Qutb means "axis," "pole," "the center," which contains the periphery or is present in it. The qutb is a spiritual being, or function, which can reside in a human being or several human beings or a moment. It is the elusive mystery of how the divine gets delegated into the manifest world and obviously cannot be defined.

by **Qutb** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:18 pm

And Shoomaker was hauled out of retireent by Rumsfeld to be the Army's new chief of staff... Oh, I do wonder why. Are we approaching a point when it all will come out? Able Danger, Sibel Edmonds, 18 USC 794, Indira Singh etc etc... One straw after another, atop the camel's back... Qutb means "axis," "pole," "the center," which contains the periphery or is present in it. The qutb is a spiritual being, or function, which can reside in a human being or several human beings or a moment. It is the elusive mystery of how the divine gets delegated into the manifest world and obviously cannot be defined.

by **Qutb** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:01 pm

Jesus, those people posting comments on Kos are dense... "IMHO, we're still a long way from being able to establish motive -- the essential, missing ingredient in proving any LIHOP OR MIHOP theory." <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/roll.gif ALT=":rollin"> And oh, don't mention lihop, it makes us look BAD! And besides, it's really tinfoily! Eew, tinfoil. Qutb means "axis," "pole," "the center," which contains the periphery or is present in it. The qutb is a spiritual being, or function, which can reside in a human being or several human beings or a moment. It is the elusive mystery of how the divine gets delegated into the manifest world and obviously cannot be defined.

by **seemslikeadream** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:09 pm

So what's up Qutb? This is HUGE don't ya think? Looks like Schoomaker and Zelikow are going to go down to me.

by **Qutb** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:31 pm

It's huge alright. And the funny thing is that on places like DU and Kos, many want to downplay Able Danger, because it happened on Clinton's watch! I mean, loyalty is good and all, but Able Danger ain't Rove disinfo. Can we please put the partisanism aside a little. It's not like Clinton wakes up in the morning thinking about what he can do for the rank & file Democrat that day. Didn't I just read about Shoomaker in connection with "Men Who Stare At Goats" type activities? Or am I imagining things? Qutb means "axis," "pole," "the center," which contains the periphery or is present in it. The qutb is a spiritual being, or function, which can reside in a human being or several human beings or a moment. It is the elusive mystery of how the divine gets delegated into the manifest world and obviously cannot be defined.

by **Lexual Chocolate** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 4:38 pm

Hi seemslikeadream! I'm going on my lunch break in two minutes, but I'll be back in an hour to give a full response to this. Just want to bring this to the top! Lex

by **Lexual Chocolate** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 6:41 pm

How deep does this conspiracy go? I'd like to believe dailykos is correct that Clinton is clean on this. But just because a zealot like Clarke was kept in the dark about Able Danger is no proof. I'm really starting to think more about things Sibel said. Didn't she say something about Republicans AND Democrats being involved in this conspiracy? I don't think Schoomaker would have told Clinton - he's the neocon that took over Shinseki after he said we would need at least 300,000 for postwar Iraq. Zelikow I really don't know too much about, but after reading dailykos he really scares me. He is to the 9/11 Commission what Allen Dulles was to the Warren Commission - a rooster investigating the henhouse. Have you read Crossing the Rubicon? Ruppert thinks Clinton had advance knowledge. He thinks the Clintons are in bed with the BFEE - notice Bill and Poppy practically holding hands on the golf course - so that might be possible. But when the truth Sibel knows comes out, I think we will find out just how widespread and bipartisan this conspiracy is. I agree with Ruppert that Cheney was the Maestro. But what if Gore had won? Which neo-con or DINO would have been in charge then? Since this plan was hatched under Clinton's administration, surely switching to Gore wouldn't have stopped the plan. So I guess the real question is, which neo-con would the PNAC have coerced Gore into including in his administration where he or she would have been in a position to be the Maestro?

by **seemslikeadream** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 2:51 pm

Hey there Lexy Have ya done the math? <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=104&topic_id=4464433&mesg_id=4464799">www.democraticunderground...id=4464799</a> "A few aspects of the reports Booman23, TopDog , & Sherlock Google ...." Posted by understandinglife ... have posted at dKos I'm just going to summarize here: 1 For starters, I think all of you likely saw this flash animation called "Buddy," but whether you've seen it or not, I suggest you watch it now: <a href="http://www.bushflash.com/buddy.html">www.bushflash.com/buddy.html</a> 2 The three 'kossacks' listed above have posted a series of analyses: The Failings of the 9/11 Commission <a href="http://booman23.dailykos.com/story/2005/8/20/17011/4512">booman23.dailykos.com/sto...17011/4512</a> Confirmed: Able Danger ID of Atta before Bushco Shut it Down <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/8/23/134727/558">www.dailykos.com/story/20...134727/558</a> Rice aide hid disbandment of Atta's trackers from 9/11 report <a href="http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/23/20200/6070">dailykos.com/storyonly/20...20200/6070</a> Must Read! The Neo-Con Able Danger Scandal -- Atta Coverup! UPDATE 5 <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/24/124834/678">www.dailykos.com/storyonl...124834/678</a> Shaffer lawyer: Army ordered documents destroyed in '03 <a href="http://topdog08.dailykos.com/story/2005/8/26/5437/92817">topdog08.dailykos.com/sto...5437/92817</a> In the current diary referenced in shraby's OP, Sherlock Google posts a terse summary which, in all fairness, I'm not going to cut and paste here. Just click the link: <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/8/26/113210/364">www.dailykos.com/story/20...113210/364</a> As an extension to a quite important discussion in autorank's OP, entitled "American Legion and DailyKOS Agree – “Like Minded”" <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4460551">www.democraticunderground...04x4460551</a> you may find these caveats offered by Sherlock Google at the end of the diary of interest: Folks, we need a timeline here, and our own Democratic investigation of 9-11 with Shaffer and Clarke and Philpott testifying. And for all trolls and Ratherized Gun-shy Kossacks who are scared to death of LIHOP theories, no tinfoil hat required here!! Just put on your Cressey Thinking Cap instead! Please read the earlier diaries BEFORE you start posting foolish stuff about Shaffer being a liar or that there was no ID of Atta in 2000. All that has already been debunked. No matter how all the details fall into place, we have ample reason to anticipate that the emergent picture will be among the ugliest in the history of America; a picture architected and painted by extraordinary avarice and total disregard for humanity. Peace.

by **seemslikeadream** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 10:47 am

Third Source Backs 'Able Danger' Claims About Atta Saturday, August 27, 2005 WASHINGTON — A third person has now come forward to verify claims made by a military intelligence unit that a year before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, it had information showing that lead hijacker Mohamed Atta (search) and other terrorists were identified as being in the United States. J.D. Smith, a defense contractor who claims he worked on the technical side of the unit, code-named "Able Danger" (search), told reporters Friday that he helped gather open-source information (search), reported on government spending and helped generate charts associated with the unit's work. Able Danger was set up in the 1990s to track Al Qaeda activity worldwide. "I am absolutely positive that he [Atta] was on our chart among other pictures and ties that we were doing mainly based upon [terror] cells in New York City," Smith said. Smith said data was gathered from a variety of sources, including about 30 or 40 individuals. He said they all had strong Middle Eastern connections and were paid for their information. Smith said Able Danger's photo of Atta was obtained from overseas. more <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,167130,00.html">www.foxnews.com/story/0,2...30,00.html</a> DO THE MATH THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A MILITARY ORDER <a href="http://www.bushflash.com/buddy.html">www.bushflash.com/buddy.html</a>

by **seemslikeadream** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 12:37 pm

30 Aug 2005 04:42:00 GMT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Tracy Dunne The Pentagon’s cover up of the secret military intelligence unit named Able Danger will shake America to its roots, according to Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA). Yesterday, Washington D.C.’s Federal News Radio reported: Pennsylvania Congressman Curt Weldon said publicly that there is a cover up at the Pentagon that quote, ‘Will shake the country to its roots.’ The Pentagon has yet to respond to requests for comments on this growing story.’ Recently it has been the Department of State, not Defense, which has made headlines over the Able Danger unit. Yesterday’s New York Post reported: Cyber-sleuths working for a Pentagon intelligence unit that reportedly identified some of the 9/11 hijackers before the attack were fired by military officials, after they mistakenly pinpointed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other prominent Americans as potential security risks, The Post has learned. The private contractors working for the counter-terrorism unit Able Danger lost their jobs in May 2000. … The Pentagon canceled its contract with the private firm shortly after the analysts — who were working on identifying al Qaeda operatives — produced a particularly controversial chart on proliferation of sensitive technology to China, the sources said. Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, the veteran Army officer who was the Defense Intelligence Agency liaison to Able Danger, told The Post China “had something to do” with the decision to restructure Able Danger. Sources said the private contractors, using sophisticated computer software that sifts through massive amounts of raw data to establish patterns, came up with a chart of Chinese strategic and business connections in the U.S. … The China chart was put together by James Smith, who confirmed yesterday that his contract with the military was canceled and he was fired from his company because the military brass became concerned about the focus on U.S. citizens. “It was shut down in a matter of hours. The colonel said our service was no longer needed and told me: ‘You just ended my career.’” Rice’s links to the Able Danger unit would resume soon after September 11th, 2001. According to Rep. Weldon, in the days following 9/11 he provided details about Able Danger to Rice’s deputy National Security Adviser, Steven Hadley. Before the House Homeland Security Committee on June 21, 2005, Weldon stated: This chart was taken by me in a smaller form to Steve Hadley two weeks after 9/11. … This chart identifies the major Al Qaida cells, and if you look to the chart in the center to the left, there’s the picture of Mohammad Atta. What the military did in 1999 and 2000 through the use of open-source data, and this is not classified what I’m showing you, they identified the Mohammad Atta cell in New York… When I took this chart to Steve Hadley and opened it up in the White House he said to me, “Congressman, where did you get this chart from?” I said I got it from the military, Special Forces command of that Army. … Steve Hadley, the Deputy to the National Security Advisor, said, “I’ve got to show this to the man.” I said, “The man?” He said, “The president of the United States.” Rice’s former Deputy has rejected answering questions about Rep. Weldon’s version of events. Time Magazine reported on August 28 that, “Hadley—since promoted to be President Bush’s national security adviser—has refused to confirm or deny the claim.” Secretary Rice’s Special Adviser, Phillip Zelikow, previously served as Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission. While doing research for the Commission’s report, Zelikow interviewed members of the Able Danger team about the project. However, he and his staff deny that Able Danger participants referred to a specific pre-9/11 identification of Mohamed Atta or the other hijackers. Appearing on The O’Reilly Factor, a member of the Able Danger unit, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, contradicts the Commission's position: Well, Bill, I don’t know if he’s lying or not. I only know what I talked to the 9-11 Commission about when I was in Afghanistan. And I provided the information I had on it to Dr. Philip Zelikow, the chief -- the executive director of the staff. And in that conversation, I told him over an hour where I laid this all out and had my talking points with me I used to talk, that we found two of the three cells which conducted the 9-11 attacks to include Atta. That’s exactly the way I remember phrasing it. If the claims made by the Able Danger participants and Rep. Weldon are confirmed, former National Security Adviser Rice and other Bush Administration officials will face a barrage of questions. First would likely be an inquiry into why the administration unceremoniously axed the Able Danger project in May of 2001. During an August 20th interview on C-Span’s Washington Journal, Able Danger member Lt. Col. Schaffer posed a question of his own: The American public should ask themselves: Why would the leadership of DoD shut down, terminate, a project which was aimed at targeting al-Qaeda offensively? ... Why would they shut that down, four months before 9/11? That’s the big question right now, we have to ask that. I don’t know the answer to that question because I know my side of the story, I know that when a 2 star general got in my face and said, “I’m a 2 star general and you are not. You are to stop your support of Able Danger.” That’s what I know personally. But the question has to be: Who told him to do that? ... And why did the rest of the project, I’m talking about Special Operations Command and the Army portion of this, why was that terminated? Those are the questions that need to be asked. Congressman Weldon -- Why now? Why ever? On August 10, 2005, MSNBC reported the following: Weldon, considered something of a maverick on Capitol Hill, initially made his allegations about Atta and the others in a floor speech in June that garnered little attention. His talk came at the end of a legislative day during a period described under House rules as “special orders” — a time slot for lawmakers to get up and speak on issues of their choosing. The issue resurfaced Monday in a story by the bimonthly Government Security News, which covers national security matters. Link: <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8891201">www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8891201</a> / On August 10, 2005, Laura Rozen on her War and Peace blog wrote of an encounter she had at Heritage Foundation with Congressman Weldon. One strange thing about this claim by Congressman Curt Weldon that he has defense intelligence sources who a year before 9/11 identified Mohammad Atta as a member of a Brooklyn al Qaeda cell is that, by some accident of fate, I was at a talk Weldon gave at the Heritage foundation back in 2002, where he was making the same claim and showing the same chart of the al Qaeda cells. <a href="http://www.townhall.com/audio/content/lect020523a.ram">www.townhall.com/audio/co...20523a.ram</a> (Start at around minute 24, minute 31 starts the claim, minute 33:33 is the chart). I even went up afterwards and asked if it would be possible to get a copy of the chart that accompanied his talk and that he's been showing recently, but it proved elusive. So why is this coming forward in a more prominent way only now? (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/10/politics/10intel.html">www.nytimes.com/2005/08/1...intel.html</a> ) After all, the 911 commission had more than a year of hearings when it could have investigated these claims, and the commission's report has been out for more than a year now. I don't know the answer. But it's worth noting that The Hill reports today (<a href="http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Fron...">www.thehill.com/thehill/e...ws/Fron...</a> ) that Weldon hopes to use the August recess to secure the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee. Link: <a href="http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/002358.html">www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/002358.html</a> By August, 26, 2005, both Laura Rozen and Taciturn converged on the following: Reacting to earlier reports, Taciturn, who knows (LTC Anthony) Shaffer from intelligence work, is skeptical of the Able Danger skeptics. His post includes this not-throw-away (para)graph: ... The hardware used in AD might very well have been decommissioned and passed on for others to use. Depending on how this was done it could make recovery of the actual source data used difficult if not impossible. However, working papers and finished products don’t just up and walk away. They get passed around in email; they get pasted into PowerPoint slides; they get turned into Analyst Notebook charts; and they linger on computer workstations. Link: <a href="http://voiceofthetaciturn.blogspot.com/2005/08/able-dan...">voiceofthetaciturn.blogsp...ble-dan...</a> After it was killed as a program in March 2001, is it conceivable that Able Danger -- hardware, slides, etc. -- was recycled as parts and bytes in other Army Information Dominance Center programs? Could that be an explanation for the lack of documentary evidence on its findings? One reason I have been pondering this is the chart Weldon has been showing since 2002 and which he writes about in his book as having given to Stephen Hadley in 2001, he has only since June credited as coming from "Able Danger" rather than Army INSCOM/LIWA at Ft. Belvoir. For instance, no where in his book is Able Danger mentioned, and Shaffer told me he only briefed Weldon on Able Danger when he and Phillpott approached Weldon in May of this year to try to secure funding for a new Navy-headed data mining program, Project Able Providence. So...where is the 2002 chart from? Is it the Able Danger chart? Or did Weldon get ahold of the Able Danger chart in 2001 thinking it was somebody else's chart (Army INSCOM?) Has Able Danger been laundered? Or its real findings reimagined or reinvented after the fact? Link: <a href="http://voiceofthetaciturn.blogspot.com/2005/08/able-dan...">voiceofthetaciturn.blogsp...ble-dan...</a> Let’s add a bit more context, amply provided by Taciturn: As an associate of Captain Ed points out, Navy Captains aren’t known for their whistle blowing tendencies. Life just got a little more complicated for those hoping to poke holes in the credibility of those speaking out about AD. Motivations may still be fair game . . . It will come down to credibility, as Big Sea (see link for statements) points out. Three men, two of whom have put their military careers on the line -- including a flag officer who might have wanted a shot at the Admiralty -- have spoken out publicly to tell us about Able Danger and its results. The 9/11 Commission obviously did not bother to investigate this, and the Pentagon didn't want to do so either. Congress needs to start their own investigation immediately and start with these men who clearly have made the commitment to get this story to the American people. In addition: Jim Geraghty at TKS has the transcript for the National Geographic special that appears to refer to Able Danger: <a href="http://tks.nationalreview.com/archives/073883.asp">tks.nationalreview.com/ar...073883.asp</a> Power Line's John Hinderaker says he's losing some of his skepticism now and wonders whether the entire Commission timeline on Atta should be thrown out: <a href="http://powerlineblog.com/archives/011433.php">powerlineblog.com/archives/011433.php</a> And Rick Moran agrees that Congress needs to act immediately: <a href="http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2005/08/23/able-d...">rightwingnuthouse.com/arc.../able-d...</a> / Link: <a href="http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/005290....">www.captainsquartersblog....005290....</a> I’m not one to scream, “Liar!” to authority figures, but for the Pentagon to say that they can’t find the data strains even my generous sense of credulity. If they were serious about finding this data, they could conduct at least as rigorous a search as they did when trying to look for a leak in their own house (<a href="http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2002/07/dod072202.html">www.fas.org/sgp/news/2002...72202.html</a> ). The CYA DEFCON is at II and rising. Update I: After catching an item on the TV news I'm reminded of another reason why we shouldn't necessarily take Pentagon claims of ABLE DANGER data having gone missing: Yet another investigation on the death of Pat Tillman. Link: <a href="http://voiceofthetaciturn.blogspot.com/2005/08/able-dan...">voiceofthetaciturn.blogsp...ble-dan...</a> Larry Johnson, on August 11, 2005, offered insightful caution and advice: Congressman Weldon's track record on issues like this is consistently spotty. Usually he gets a portion of the story correct but screws up the most important parts. That appears to be the case here. <clip> The biggest flaw in Weldon's scenario appears to be the role of SOCOM aka the Special Operations Command. SOCOM in 2000 was a weak command with no operational role in 2000. Even after 9-11 SOCOM struggled to try to function like the other regional CINCs. Prior to January 2003 SOCOM was barely a "supporting" command and did not function as a "supported" command. <clip> The investigation should start by asking questions of General Charlie Holland (ret. USAF), who commanded SOCOM at the time. He will be able to identify who was in charge of contracting at the time. Be sure to ask about the size of the J-2. The J-2 is the intelligence arm of any military general command. SOCOM did not have a large J-2 at the time. Normally the FBI and the CIA have a rep assigned to a major military command. Who were those people and were they aware of ABLE DANGER. Link: <a href="http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/08/hidden_d...">noquarter.typepad.com/my_...idden_d...</a> On August 26, 2005, in the Norristown Times Herald, one of the more thorough accountings of what has transpired since Senator Arlan Spector began pursuing the Able Danger matter was reported by Keith Phucas. In fact, it was on June 19, 2005 that the Norristown Times Herald reported on 7th District Congressman Weldon’s version of the Able Danger story – a story that went as unnoticed as the Congressman’s June 2005 floor speech in Congress. The August 26, 2005 story contains the following: In 2000, the operation's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) team wanted to pool the talents of the FBI and Special Operations Command to track 9/11 hijacker, Mohamed Atta, and other Muslim extremists, that had been linked to al-Qaida in the United States, according to Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, a DIA employee who worked on the project. The Pentagon pulled the plug on the classified program, however, according to Shaffer, because it feared negative repercussion if the operation went wrong. <clip> Shaffer claims, attorneys in the Pentagon ultimately killed the project. "I know who the lawyers are and have turned (the names) over to the committee," he said. The Reserve officer hopes the legal paper trail will reveal why "Able Danger" was cut short. "(The committee) needs to get the lawyers' notes," he said. <clip> The defense intelligence employees worked on "Able Danger," between 1999 and 2001, at the Army's Land Information Warfare Assistance Center (LIWA), in Fort Belvoir, Va. Shaffer said as many as 25 individuals supported the LIWA program, though only about a dozen were fully briefed on the project's objective: To identify and target terrorists. The "Able Danger" group mapped al-Qaida links worldwide, assembling charts that showed the connection between Atta and other suspected terrorists, he said. Though the original chart has not been unearthed, several other facsimiles have been recreated showing the terrorist links. Shaffer said about 20 boxes full of documents existed on "Able Danger" when he was involved. Link: <a href="http://www.timesherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=1510166...">www.timesherald.com/site/...1510166...</a> Couple the above with the latest update from Laura Rozen on August 28, 2005: Mark Zaid, the attorney for former Able Danger official LTC Anthony Shaffer, clarifies a couple points. He is now representing several former Able Danger officials and contractors. According to Zaid, none of these former Able Danger officials ever asserted that Able Danger had identified Mohamed Atta as physically being in the US; rather the project had allegedly identified Atta as being linked in some fashion (not necessarily a direct one) with the Brooklyn-based Blind Sheik. Hence the 'Brooklyn cell' as a term of art. Link: <a href="http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/002432.html">www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/002432.html</a> Apart from Mark Levy’s post here at DU and Daily Kos, today, entitled DID DOD SHUT DOWN ABLE DANGER AFTER IT DETECTED CONDI’S CONNECTION WITH A PRC SPY RING? (<a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...">www.democraticunderground...oard.ph...</a> ) And, a number of reports that I reference here: (<a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...">www.democraticunderground...oard.ph...</a> ) If I were a corporate media journalist actually interested in the truth regarding any relevance of Able Danger to 9/11: 1. I’d start with Richard Clarke. I would ask him if he had ever heard of Able Danger. And, I would ask if he has retained legal council as a result of the disclosure of the Able Danger issue. 2. I’d take Larry Johnson’s advice and I’d contact General Charles Holland and ask him if he had knowledge of Able Danger and go from there. 3. I’d be asking Col. Shaffer exactly what “negative repercussion if the operation went wrong” he means in referencing ‘the Pentagon’s lawyers’ reasons for halting Able Danger in early 2001. And, I would ask him if he was able to get Spector’s committee, when he met with them late last week, to write the letter to the ‘agency other than the FBI’ whom he claims he told the Committee earlier, they had to seek information (for reference, see the Norristown Times Herald link, above). 4. And, my laser would be focused on Congressman Weldon and what he knew by the time he was making his presentation at the Heritage Foundation in 2002, and how he came to have that chart, and why was he not demanding to show his chart and whatever else he had to the 9/11 commission – on like Day 1 of their hearings. Oh, and has the Congressman sought legal council on the matter and is he still pushing for Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee. 5. And, I suggest everyone, not just a corporate media journalist (or two), read something from someone who has a very hard time imaging how Weldon is anyone’s Congressional representative, and an ever harder time dealing with the reality that he lives in Weldon’s Congressional district – billmon on Disable Danger at -- <a href="http://billmon.org/archives/002095.html">billmon.org/archives/002095.html</a> <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4500623">www.democraticunderground...04x4500623</a>

by **seemslikeadream** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 11:43 pm

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three more people associated with a secret U.S. military intelligence team have asserted that the program identified September 11 ringleader Mohammed Atta as an Al Qaeda suspect inside the United States more than a year before the 2001 attacks, the Pentagon said on Thursday. The Pentagon said a three-week review had turned up no documents to back up the assertion, but did not rule out that such documents relating to the classified operation had been destroyed. Downs said that three more people, as well as Phillpott and Shaffer, recalled the existence of an intelligence chart identifying Atta by name. Four of the five recalled a photo of Atta accompanying the chart, Downs said. Pentagon officials declined to identify the three by name, but said they were an analyst with the military's Special Operations Command, an analyst with the Land Information Warfare Assessment Center and a contractor who supported the center. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050901/pl_nm/security_attacks_pentagon_dc">news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050901/pl_nm/security_attacks_pentagon_dc</a> http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1744982#1745391

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