Curt Weldon’s story
In January of this year, Rep. Curt Weldon made a speech to the House of Representatives in which he made a number of extraordinary assertions:
- Federal agencies from had, in fact, identified the major New York cell of Mohamed Atta prior to 9/11 (via a military special ops group called ‘Able Danger’ which used data-mining techniques)
- in September of 2000, that Federal agency actually was prepared to bring the FBI in and take down the cell
- lawyers in the administration at that time said, you cannot pursue contact with the FBI against that cell
- Mohamed Atta is in the U.S. on a green card,
- and we are fearful of the fallout from the Waco incident
- The 9/11 Commission and Stephen Hadley, at the National Security Council had been notified of this
But Atta DID NOT have a green card
In fact, he and most of the hijackers had violated rules on their tourist visa more than once
The lie
Justin Raimondo was the first one to raise the issue of the visas on his piece:
9/11 Revisionism, Revisited- by Justin Raimondo
Something about this doesn’t quite ring true: none of the hijackers had a green card. Most came in on tourist visas: some had made easily detectable false statements on their visa applications, and might have been legally deported.
Justin then points to a 9/11 commission statement on the hijackers means of entry in America where we indeed confirm that all of them but 1 had sought – and most got – tourist visas. It also reveals that Atta often violated rules on his tourist visa (extended stay, entering with wrong visa), which makes Curt Weldon’s contention that lawyers vetoed the arrest of Atta based on his green card a blatant lie. (See details at lawnorder: 9/11 commission statement: Atta and his cohorts Visas)
So why the lie, why now ?
Of course news that 9/11 could have been averted if it wasn’t for a <u>Clinton</u> government veto caused outrage in the MSM and even on kos / Booman Tribune. His story was picked up recently by Government Security News and this was followed by a piece in the NYT by Douglas Jehl. Weldon asks: Why didn’t the 9/11 commission caught that in their year long review ? Predictably, the 9/11 commission denied any notion of it, but later admitted that the Commission staff was indeed briefed in a meeting held on July 12, 2004.
Blame Clinton, a favorite Neocon pastime
At first look it seems that Weldon’s intended target seems to be the CIA and Clinton. Sure enough, right after ‘Able Danger’ hits the news:
- Neocon insider and 9/11 commissioner Philip Zelikow demands further investigation 9/11 Commission Wants Atta Claims Pursued – Yahoo! News
- Additional 9/11 tapes are released by the commission: 9/11 tapes reveal panic, heroism – The Boston Globe
I even made a diary titled Told you it was a Clinton witch hunt to distract the media where I wonder:
With the amount of errors this Administration committed and is STILL committing, Porter Goss neutering of the CIA, IGNORAD and Rummie’s failure in Tora Bora in Intelligence the 9/11 guys are going to look into a 2000 “wall between agencies” problem ??!?!
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Doubly Devious Neocons: Another path to get their Iran war ?
Sure dishing Clinton, distracting the media from Rovegate and reminding people of 9/11 are nice byproducts of the lie. And it would produce a much wanted uptic in Bush’s poll numbers, which are currently getting his senators so nervous that they fli flop, like Frist on Stem Cell research and Santorum on Evolution teaching. But Kossack Hector Solon has a thoroughly researched diary where he theorizes that neocon’s goal with this lie go even further:
Daily Kos: `Able Danger’ Sign of Clinton 9/11 Failures… Not so fastWeldon’s intended target seems to be the CIA and Clinton, but not so fast, it certainly is far more enlightening and complicated than first appears..
Philip Zelikow is now ground zero in 911 cover-up and “mything” the coming war with Iran…“Mything” — A New Case Against Iran
All this started when Weldon was flushed from cover during another recent tiff with the CIA over his amateurish .. building the case for action against Iran....Let’s assume that Weldon is acting either on instruction, or on his own accord to further expose the failings of the CIA, and/or to place the failures of 9/11 squarely in the hands of the Clinton Administration and “those DoD lawyers”…
Joe Conason in “Big Lies” [debunks this myth]
But Real Story is…
Bush, and in particular Dr. Rice, missed the critical hand-off and must bear heavy responsibility for the failure to comprehend and to forestall 9/11’s attacks.. they are unable or negligent in reacting in the professional manner demanded of their official roles as protectors of the this Nation.Blessed are the Myth-Makers:
Who the hell is Phil Zelikow? He is the man that wrote the myth-making and is now at the forefront of the building the new myth for a case to attack Iran.However, back in late 2001, Zelikow was appointed to the 911 Commission for a single purpose; to protect Condoleezza Rice and the Bush national security team from the fact that they seriously dropped the ball on the pursuit of Al-Qaeda…
Phil Zelikow HAS to be aware of the lie
He was in charge of investigations on the 9/11 commission. So of course he has to know Atta was never issued a green card and even violated his tourist visa policies often. If he doesn’t know he obviously isn’t qualified to be in the commission, let alone lead it’s investigation force. So here we get proof that “the game is afoot” as the Sherlock used to say…
Where is this revisionism leading ?
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I kept saying this all along!!!!!! I did I DID!!!! I just could nto spell the mans name right..I knew it was he all along….I said so in my post of things in thsi particular dealing when it came out…..
The Jersey Moms wanted this man removed from his post when the commission started…he is a protige` of condi and they knew it….I remember when this made them so very upset when they did not remove him. He is/was the filter for the whole commission..
I remember telling booman at the time, that weldon was wanting to place this all on clinton…and that he was a dog for the WH….
I said the same thing when he posted at kos!
I hope he sees this diary!
I said the same thing when he posted at kos!
I hope he sees this diary!
booman has posted a front page article and it runs straight along with yours…I told him about you over here….
I remember watching the beginning of th ecommission and its intervies of ppl for ppublic consumption. This Philip Z. was the big kahuna at the time and that the jersey gals was not one bit happy with him thre…they knew he would filter the stuff coming in and going out. Thaqnk you so much for making me not look crazy here..:o) I htink they thought I was nuts when I spoke of this man and his connections to this case. He is a valuble key to the whole shabang.
and I just wrote about it again.
Weldon is off the reservation. He is not taking orders, he is exposing a cover-up by Zelikow, Rumsfeld, and ultimately the administration.
Why?
a) He’s a fucking idiot (and thinks this will stick to Clinton), or
b) He is a patriot, who doesn’t appreciate lies about our national security.
Weldon’s nephew died on a CIA C-130 arms flight into Angola in the early 1990’s. No one in the government would tell him the truth about the flight. He has an ax to grind.
Boo, I know all that..what makes me wonder, is why now!!!! after all this time? what does he have up is sleeve? I know he is a nut case, but he has a motive…does he not know that he is like you said, opening up a can of worm that will eventually some bite him in his butt??!!!
I just know that the whole left has its back up to refute Weldon’s allegations because they see it as an attempt to blame Clinton and consolidate the intelligence services.
But what Weldon may not understand, is that he has just destroyed the credibility of the 9/11 Commission, and that is a potentially devastating blow to the Bush administration.
So, if we want to get Weldon to shut up, the best thing we can do is embrace his accusations.
you may be right..I don’t know. who am I…I just say thsi was all going on from the get go an dI think I would want the administration to be caught again with their pants down….
If what I have read, as of late, the Plame investigation will get into some of this. I do not know like everyone else…all I can do is read and try to understand things to the best of my ablility. I just know that this Philip Z man is the biggest duck in the puddle and he is up to no good at all times. he is a sneaky kind of guy. I think it would be great if things would blow in their faces…