Republican Congressman Alleges 9/11 Cover-up by Pentagon (VIDEO)

[MelissaB]

Michael Moore (under "Just In") links to Brad Blog, and this article is blogged by our own Dzika.

VIDEO - Republican Congressman Alleges 9/11 Cover-up by Pentagon
Pentagon engaged in 'smear campaign' against whistleblower

Guest blogged by David Edwards Video in Windows Media format... Video in QuickTime format... On Sept. 20 2005, the military revoked the security clearance of Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer...

Guest blogged by David Edwards

Video in Windows Media format...
Video in QuickTime format...

On Sept. 20 2005, the military revoked the security clearance of Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, who was scheduled to testify in Congress the following day. Shaffer was to testify about a cover-up by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). He alleged that the DIA withheld information about one or more of the 9/11 hijackers from the FBI and the 9/11 Commission.

Yesterday, Representative Curt Weldon appeared on CNN where he alleged that the DIA was smearing the whistleblower (Lt. Col. Shaffer) and continuing a cover-up of the 'Able Danger' program. Rory O'Connor of Media is Plural seems to have firsthand information about Representative Weldon's grievances:

Link to video: http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001941.htm

[texpatriot2004]

1. Go Weldon. Glad to hear it. n.t

[afdip]

2. hell hath no fury like a repuke scorned . . . .

[MelissaB]

10. and I hope all hell is about to break loose.

May we know the truth soon.

[Patsy Stone]

3. Thanks for posting this, Melissa

And thanks to dzika for the video.

Just another smear campaign... So, what's new? I think they need a new playbook.

[don954]

4. same shit diffrent day

im sorry, im just getting jaded about these things...

[donheld]

5. This needs to be seen by everybody

Thanks for posting.

[adarling]

6. oh wow

then this might actually prove the pentagon coverup of 9/11...eeee

[GreenPoet64]

7. Wow! Recommended. n/t

[autorank]

8. Great one MelissaB--Recommended

This one is very deep. Weldon has his own baggage in terms of family ties (his daughter I believe) to Defense contractors. When he came out with this story, the rumors started that he was trying to divert attention away from an investigation of these ties. I actually saw this and dismissed the story. At this point, however, it looks like a rotten deal for the Col. and it looks like Weldon is charging hard. Watch for an attempt to pull the rug from under him (or his shift of the story to an attack on Clinton).

[KoKo]

9. Be careful he wants us to go into Iran. He was on C-Span pushing his book

and it was all about how the CIA didn't see that Iran was the problem and blaming things on before Bush...meaning "the Clenis" didn't fix the CIA so that we could go after the "real problem" in the ME which to him is Iran.

He's propagandizing..I think. :shrug:

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

11. His main book source is a longtime associate of Ghorbanifar

of Iran-Contra fame (& more recently possible Leeden Niger forgeries fame) called Fereidoun Mahdavi who was a minister in the Shah's government.

[KoKo]

20. Gack! I guess that says it all...doesn't it.

:-(

[SittingBull]

12. The only question...

why?


Someone who doesn't have something to hide needs no cover-up

[ourbluenation]

13. you know the dark side has another take on this whole thing...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507465/posts

I havn't given too much attention to this entire thing...maybe someone could nutshell it for me???

[Wilms]

14. Thanks MB. n/t

[EVDebs]

15. Lt Col Steve Butler was saying the same thing before he was sacked

from Monterey Defense Language School.

"Lieutenant Colonel Butler, who wrote in a letter to the editor of the Monterey County Herald charging that "Bush knew about the impending attacks," was vice chancellor for student affairs at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California — a US military facility that one or more of the hijackers reportedly attended during the 1990s."

http://www.sumeria.net/politics/bushknew/milschool.html

[longship]

16. Astounding! Simply astounding!

This season has been one of incredible revelations. It's not that we're reading things that are new, or things we haven't thought. It's that we're seeing things from sources that themselves make the revelation astonishing.

I keep wondering. Where it the Sam Hell is all of this going to lead? How far can the situation be stretched before things fracture either in a constructive or destructive way--and constructive or destructive for whom.

[mod mom]

17. Would you believe they showed his floor speech on Lou Dobbs, and

then interviewed him? He was utterly outraged that they are smearing the whistleblowers.

[KingFlorez]

18. He's in a district that votes fo Democrats

He's got to try and save his butt from frying in 2006

[Independent_Liberal]

19. Thanks for speaking up Mr. Weldon!

Though I don't like you that much, thanks for speaking out on this.

[Peace Patriot]

21. While all this drama is appearing on the surface--and much of it is...

...rivetting, to be sure--the super-rich and the global corporate predators who rule us are stealing us blind every which way they can. Bill after bill in Congress, plan after plan, appointment after appointment, aimed at harming the middle class and the poor, to the benefit of the rich. As if they didn't have enough. As if they hadn't screwed us over badly enough under Reagan by re-writing the tax laws.

Maybe that's it--maybe it is planned: They distract and outrage us with their filthy murderous wars and and acts of treason, and with all the fuss and bother that comes with investigation and scandal; like "bread and circuses" (without the bread); and the Democrats get up on their high horse and form committees, and prosecutors get busy, and the press has fun, too; and meanwhile, they bankrupt the treasury, lard their friends with no-bid military contracts worth billions and billions of dollars, raise interest rates to 30% for little creditors, send gas prices through the roof, and cut all social programs and let our country's infrastructure deteriorate, taking it out of the hides of the poorest among us, and the weakest and the sickest and the oldest.

Well, all I can say is, don't count on ANY investigation to save our democracy. Iran-Contra didn't. The perps came right back with Bush Jr., to repeat their lies and rebuild their death squads, big time.

And they now have gained control of the tabulation of our votes--with SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by far rightwing Bushite corporations. So--back to square one--we need to restore our right to vote if we want to see any real change in how our land is governed.

We need...

1. Paper ballots hand-counted at the precinct level (--Canada does it in one day, although speed should not even be a consideration, just accuracy and verifiability)

or, at the least...

2. Paper ballot (not "paper trail") backup of all electronic voting, a 10% automatic recount, very strict security, and NO SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code! (...jeez!).

And this can only be achieved at the state/local level, where control of election systems still resides, and where ordinary people still have some influence. The corruption in the $4 billion electronic voting boondoggle is a formidable obstacle to election reform, even at this level, but these are still the only viable venues for election reform. (Congress is worse than useless.)

And just remember: They had a reason for taking away our right to vote. It is the most powerful mechanism we have of both accountability and change, and it can be used to greatly further peace and justice in the world. WE hold the sovereignty and the potential power to curtail U.S.-based global corporate predators. Think about it!

See:

http://www.votersunite.org - good pamphlet on the perils of electronic voting.

http://www.UScountvotes.org - project for statistical monitoring and challenging of elections in '06 and '08.

[DemReadingDU]

22. Exactly. Diebold and ES&S control our votes

If we can't change how the votes are counted, then when we go to the polls on election day, the same people in this regime will still be elected!

typo