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Naval officer says Atta's identity known pre-9/11
2005-08-23, San Francisco Chronicle/New York Times
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/08/23/MNG66EBPJ71.DTL
An active-duty Navy captain has become the second military officer to come forward publicly to say that a secret defense intelligence program tagged the ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks as a possible terrorist more than a year before the attacks. The officer, Capt. Scott Phillpott, said in a statement Monday that he could not discuss details of the military program, which was called Able Danger, but confirmed that its analysts had identified the Sept. 11 ringleader, Mohamed Atta, by name by early 2000. His comments came on the same day that the Pentagon's chief spokesman, Lawrence Di Rita, told reporters that the Defense Department had been unable to validate the assertions made by an Army intelligence veteran, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, and now backed up by Phillpott, about the early identification of Atta. Shaffer went public with his assertions last week, saying that analysts in the intelligence project had been overruled by military lawyers when they tried to share the program's findings with the FBI in 2000 in hopes of tracking down terrorist suspects tied to al Qaeda.
Able Danger disabled
2005-08-13, Toledo Blade
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050813/COLUMNIST14/508130...
What may be
a bigger scandal is that the staff of the 9/11 Commission knew of Able Danger
and what it had found, but made no mention of it in its report. This is as
if the commission that investigated the attack on Pearl Harbor had written
its final report without mentioning the Japanese. Mr. Weldon unveiled Able
Danger in a speech on the House floor June 27, but his remarks didn't attract
attention until the New York Times reported on them Tuesday. 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 Mr. Weldon's credibility:
"The Sept. 11th Commission did not learn of any U.S. government knowledge
prior to 9/11 of the surveillance of Mohammed Atta or his cell," Mr.
Hamilton said. "Had we learned of it obviously it would have been a major
focus of our investigation." Mr. 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. The 9/11 commission wrote history as it wanted it to be, not
as it was. The real history of what happened that terrible September day has
yet to be written.
'Able Danger' Could Rewrite History
2005-08-12, Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,165414,00.html
The federal commission that probed the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks was told twice about "Able Danger," a military intelligence unit that had identified Mohamed Atta and other hijackers a year before the attacks. Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa.,...wrote to the former chairman and vice-chairman of the Sept. 11 commission late Wednesday, telling them that their staff had received two briefings on the military intelligence unit -- once in October 2003 and again in July 2004. Weldon...wrote to former Chairman Gov. Thomas Kean and Vice-Chairman Rep. Lee Hamilton. "The 9/11 commission staff received not one but two briefings on Able Danger from former team members, yet did not pursue the matter. "The commission's refusal to investigate Able Danger after being notified of its existence, and its recent efforts to feign ignorance of the project while blaming others for supposedly withholding information on it, brings shame on the commissioners"
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9/11 Commission's Staff Rejected Report on Early Identification of Chief Hijacker
2005-08-11, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/11/politics/11intel.html?ex=1281412800&en=3c4c...
The Sept.
11 commission was warned by a uniformed military officer 10 days before issuing
its final report that the account would be incomplete without reference to
what he described as a secret military operation that by the summer of 2000
had identified as a potential threat the member of Al Qaeda who would lead
the attacks more than a year later. The officials said that the information
had not been included in the report because aspects of the officer's account
had sounded inconsistent with what the commission knew about that Qaeda member,
Mohammed Atta, the plot's leader. [Republican Congressman Curt] Weldon has
accused the commission of ignoring information that would have forced a rewriting
of the history of the Sept. 11 attacks. He has asserted that the Able Danger
unit...sought to call their superiors' attention to Mr. Atta and three other
future hijackers in the summer of 2000. In a letter sent Wednesday to members
of the commission, Mr. Weldon criticized the panel in scathing terms, saying
that its "refusal to investigate Able Danger after being notified of
its existence, and its recent efforts to feign ignorance of the project...brings
shame on the commissioners." Al Felzenberg, who served as the commission's
chief spokesman, said earlier this week that staff members who were briefed
about Able Danger at a first meeting, in October 2003, did not remember hearing
anything about Mr. Atta or an American terrorist cell. On Wednesday, however,
Mr. Felzenberg said the uniformed officer who briefed two staff members in
July 2004 had indeed mentioned Mr. Atta.
Four in 9/11 Plot Are Called Tied to Qaeda in '00
2005-08-09, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/09/politics/09intel.html?ex=1281240000&en=bc4d...
More than
a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, a small, highly classified military intelligence
unit identified Mohammed Atta and three other future hijackers as likely members
of a cell of Al Qaeda operating in the United States, according to a former
defense intelligence official and a Republican member of Congress. In
the summer of 2000, the military team, known as Able Danger, prepared a chart
that included visa photographs of the four men and recommended to the military's
Special Operations Command that the information be shared with the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, the congressman, Representative Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania,
and the former intelligence official said Monday. The recommendation was rejected
and the information was not shared, they said, apparently at least in part
because Mr. Atta, and the others were in the United States on valid entry
visas.
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