Jack Kelly says the 9/11 Commission Report needs to be moved to the fiction shelves, such are the credibility problems brought on by the Able Danger disclosures.
When the story broke, former Rep. Lee Hamilton, a Democrat from Indiana, co-chairman of the 9/11 commission, at first denied the commission had ever been informed of what Able Danger had found, and took a swipe at Weldon's credibility:"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."
Hamilton changed his tune after The New York Times reported Thursday, and The Associated Press confirmed, that commission staff had been briefed on Able Danger in October 2003 and again in July 2004.
It was in October 2003 that Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger stole classified documents from the National Archives and destroyed some. Berger allegedly was studying documents in the archives to help prepare Clinton officials to testify before the 9/11 commission. Was he removing references to Able Danger? Someone should ask him before he is sentenced next month?
Yes, and while we're asking questions, why don't we ask "Clinton administration officials" how far up the chain of command they went to make the decision forbidding the FBI to see the Able Danger intelligence about Atta and his associates. We know now that counter-intelligence at the time was essentially being run from the White House. We know Jamie Gorelick authored the policy, but who made the call on Mohammed Atta?
Posted by dan at August 14, 2005 07:05 PM