Reply #8: Phillip Zelikow needs to answer more than a few questions under oath.

[Octafish]

Just when things are about to become "understandable," we discover even more, uh, ineptitude.

Weldon 9/11 tale unravels, but wait

Congressman has more allegations, one on bin Laden.

By Chris Mondics and Steve Goldstein
Philadelphia Inquirer Washington Bureau

EXCERPT...

With dramatic rhetorical flourish, he said that a secret military intelligence program called Able Danger fingered Mohamed Atta and two other al-Qaeda hijackers before the 9/11 attacks - and that the government had failed to act.

"Not only did our military identify the Mohamed Atta cell, our military made a recommendation in September of 2000 to bring in the FBI to take out the cell of Mohamed Atta," he said.

SNIP...

Eventually, Weldon brought forward two military officials, Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and Navy Capt. Scott Phillpott, who had been involved in the Able Danger program, as well as a civilian employee of the program named J.D. Smith. They testified that they had identified Atta and other 9/11 hijackers in 1999 or 2000. Using sophisticated data-mining techniques, they employed powerful software and computers to sift through huge amounts of publicly available information to create a portrait of the al-Qaeda presence in the United States and around the world.

SNIP...

The 9/11 commission said its executive director, Philip Zelikow, and three others had met with Shaffer at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, where he was on assignment, in October 2003 as part of its probe. Contradicting Shaffer, the 9/11 commission said that during this meeting, he never mentioned that Able Danger had identified Atta and other hijackers before the plot, the commission said.

SNIP...

Said Weldon: "I don't know what the bottom-line answer is for Able Danger. All I want is the truth."

SOURCE:

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/14099912.htm

Thanks, seemslikeadream, for the important information.



Stuff like this should be read and spread before the Bushies shut down the First Amendment, too.