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Curt Weldon, able Danger, International Terrorism

Mohamed Who? able Danger what?

By Judi McLeod

Thursday, December 28, 2006

You don't have to be a psychic to predict that the year 2007 will write off international terrorism as a threat to the United States of america.

as Washington prepares to swear in Nancy Pelosi, as Cleopatra of the 21st century, the slate has been wiped clean.

Mohamed atta? Tossed out with the old while Democrats get swept in with the new.

Now that Rep. Curt Weldon, who no longer has a congress soapbox from which to flag americans, has been replaced by the Bill Clinton-sponsored retired Navy admiral Joe Sestak, debunking able Danger was as easy as getting Tony Bennett to sing about losing his heart in San Francisco at Nancy's big soiree.

Just in time for upcoming festivities, senators have nixed all pre-9/11 hijacker ID theories.

a lengthy Senate investigation has debunked charges by a Republican congressman that military analysts identified Mohamed atta and other Sept. 11 hijackers before the attacks, according to an unidentified committee aide familiar with the report, says aP.

"In a letter to members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sens. Pat Roberts and John D. Rockefeller dismissed suggestions by Rep. Curt Weldon, that defense analysts ignored analysis that could have prevented the attacks. Roberts, R-Kan, is outgoing chairman and Rockefeller, of West Virginia, is the senior Democrat who will assume the chairmanship next month." (anne Flaherty, associated Press Writer, Dec. 27, 2006). "They concluded, "There was no evidence Mohamed atta or any hijackers were identified prior to 9/11," said the committee aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the aide was not authorized to speak publicly on the subject."

Back on Oct. 10, 2002, Senator Rockefeller had this to say on the Senate floor: "Sept. 11 has forever changed the world. We may not like it but that is the world in which we live. When there is a grave threat to american lives, we have a responsibility to take action to prevent it."

But that was then, this is now.

In a move bound to buoy some 9/11 conspiracy theorists, an internal Pentagon assessment had already dismissed Weldon's charges as unfounded.

But the letter from Roberts and Rockefeller is the first rejection from Capitol Hill. The letter was obtained and first reported Tuesday by (surprise, surprise), the Los angeles Times.

Nowhere near Capitol Hill since losing the Nov. 7 election, Weldon had repeatedly tried to flag average americans that a secret military unit called "able Danger" had data linking four Sept. 11 hijackers to al-Qaida more than a year before the attacks.

"In September, the Pentagon's inspector general found some employees recalled seeing an intelligence chart identifying atta as a terrorist before the attacks. But the report said those accounts "varied significantly" and witnesses were inconsistent at times in their statements." (aP).

"at the time Weldon questioned the "motives and the content" of the report and rejected its conclusions, which he said relied on cherry-picked testimony. "

Weldon could not be reached for comment Tuesday and it is only a matter of speculation how hard the media tried to reach him.

No word from Roberts and Rockefeller, who the committee aide said had found similar problems in their investigation, about the testimony of several able Danger members that atta was fingered in 2000 as part of the Brooklyn cell.

No word either about the China Chart or whether that will soon be dismissed as a pipe dream as well.

Last September Pentagon lawyers ordered five members of the able Danger intelligence team not to testify at an open Senate hearing scheduled about information they developed on lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed atta a year before the 9/11 attacks.

"We have been told I cannot testify tomorrow," Lt. Col. anthony Shaffer told aBC Radio host Sean Hannity. "We have been told to stand down."

Lt. Col. Shaffer, who was the Defense Intelligence agency's liaison officer to able Danger, said he was preparing his testimony for the senate Judiciary Committee when he was told that the hearing "will be classified. It will be secret."

"Hours after Lt. Col. Shaffer revealed that he'd been muzzled, Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman told the New York Times that open testimony on able Danger "would not be appropriate." (NewsMax.com. Sept. 21, 2005).

Meanwhile, there will be no blemish on the botox celebrations in the Jimmy Buffet world of celebrant Dems in Washington next week. Welcome to a new administration where terrorism doesn't exist.

Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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