Thursday, February 16, 2006
Able Danger Returns
From the comprehensive Able Danger Blog, a teaser from the new Able Danger Hearings which opened in Washington on Wednesday:
"It shocked us how entrenched of a presence al-Qaeda had in the United States," former Army Maj. Erik Kleinsmith told two subcommittees of the House Armed Services Committee.
J.D. Smith, a defense contractor who also worked on the Able Danger team, said he used Arab intermediaries in the Los Angeles area to buy a photograph of Atta. Smith said Atta's photo was among about 40 photos of al-Qaeda members on a large chart that he personally delivered to Pentagon officials in 2000, more than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks.
Asked by Rep. Curt Weldon, a Republican from Pennsylvania, how certain he was that the chart contained Atta's photograph, Smith responded that he kept a copy of the chart on the office wall.
"I'm absolutely certain," Smith said. "I looked at it every day."
AJ Strata has been keeping watch as well and dissects Congressman Curt Weldon's press conference.
Via Power Line: listen to the hearing here.
"It shocked us how entrenched of a presence al-Qaeda had in the United States," former Army Maj. Erik Kleinsmith told two subcommittees of the House Armed Services Committee.
J.D. Smith, a defense contractor who also worked on the Able Danger team, said he used Arab intermediaries in the Los Angeles area to buy a photograph of Atta. Smith said Atta's photo was among about 40 photos of al-Qaeda members on a large chart that he personally delivered to Pentagon officials in 2000, more than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks.
Asked by Rep. Curt Weldon, a Republican from Pennsylvania, how certain he was that the chart contained Atta's photograph, Smith responded that he kept a copy of the chart on the office wall.
"I'm absolutely certain," Smith said. "I looked at it every day."
AJ Strata has been keeping watch as well and dissects Congressman Curt Weldon's press conference.
Via Power Line: listen to the hearing here.
