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2005-09-02 Home Front: Politix

More Able Danger personnel say terrorists known pre-9/11

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-09-02 00:35|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I was going to comment about how shocked I am about more people then noticed it was a NYT article.

Posted by Charles 2005-09-02 01:50|| 2005-09-02 01:50|| Front Page Top

#2 IOW, too much paperwork, NOT enuff office space, NOT enuff bodies to do proper analyses. ATTA has been known for a long time - how can INTEL NOT know???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-09-02 02:23|| 2005-09-02 02:23|| Front Page Top

#3
I think that if a DoD unit had identified Atta, the guy who led the attack on the Pentagon, then the discovery of Atta would have been briefed at quite a few meetings, and lots and lots of people would remember the briefing itself (not merely a slide) very well. This fellatio situation now -- where a handful of people remember seeing a briefing slide that now cannot be found -- is very dubious.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2005-09-02 08:21|| 2005-09-02 08:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, well, look who's got orality on the mind, even before .com gets here. Didn't Mikey learn anythig aboput credibility from his Kofi/Kojo situation?

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-09-02 09:01|| 2005-09-02 09:01|| Front Page Top

#5 If people in the UN knew about it I'm sure you'd agree with them...

Posted by Raj 2005-09-02 09:04|| 2005-09-02 09:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Along Mike S's path of reasoning...I would think more people would have known about the massive corruption and misappropriation of funds in the UN OFF initative than the handful that have come forward...

In almost every organization (particularly in the government or NGO community) it is a sin to bring to light past weaknesses...I imagine the bureaucracy (read: lawyers) at the DOD is no different.

Posted by mjh 2005-09-02 09:51|| 2005-09-02 09:51|| Front Page Top

#7
mjh, your own reasoning escapes me.

Your syllogism:
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An Able Danger member briefing his own DoD leadership that his own unit had cleverly identified Atta as a terrorist before 9/11

is like

A UN official hiding from his own UN leadership that he himself had been involved in massive corruption and misappropriation of funds.
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If that is not your syllogism, then correct it for me.

What was the weakness of the Able Danger unit if it identified Atta as the leader of a terrrorist cell? Why would this unit hide this achievement from the DoD leadership?
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2005-09-02 16:41|| 2005-09-02 16:41|| Front Page Top

#8 What was the weakness of the Able Danger unit if it identified Atta as the leader of a terrrorist cell? Why would this unit hide this achievement from the DoD leadership?

fellatio?

Posted by Abel Oral Danger 2005-09-02 19:14|| 2005-09-02 19:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Mike's offering again - using code.

Another "whoops" by the Clinton apologists...

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-09-02 19:45|| 2005-09-02 19:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Lol. Another Look at Meeee! post. Lol. Wotta desperately self-indulgent self-pitying self-absorbed self-aggrandizing self-centered self-destructive fool for attention. The pluperfect Redheaded Stepchild.

Posted by .com 2005-09-02 21:42|| 2005-09-02 21:42|| Front Page Top

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