August 11, 2005

Very Interesting

I was listening to the news before work this morning, and they were talking about "Able Danger". From what I understand, a military intelligence group claims they had intelligence on Mohammed Atta more than a year before 9/11, but were prevented from passing it on to civilian law enforcement due to that "wall" law. They say that they told the 9/11 Commission about this twice, but their information never made it into the report. So, if this is true, my first thought was that this must have something to do with Jamie Gorelick, who was one of members of the 9/11 Commission, but to my mind should have been a witness since she's the one for creating the "wall" law in the first place. Now I believe that even more than I did at the time. My second thought is Sandy Burglar, err, Berger. Just what was in those documents he destroyed? Yeah, there's probably no connection, but I'm a suspicious sort to begin with, so I wonder.

I haven't had time to look up anything in print on this, so if anyone has any good links on the subject, whether media or blog, I'd appreciate it. I'm very interested in finding out more about this.

A bit later: thanks to CTG for this link to My Pet Jawa that has a pretty extensive post with lots of links. Hopefully, I'll get a chance at some point today to read it more fully.

Cassandra has more hereThe Anchoress and Juliette.

Posted by Ithildin at August 11, 2005 9:21 AM | PROCURE FINE OLD WORLD ABSINTHE

Rusty Shackelford had some thoughts on the Sandy Burglar angle here

Posted by: caltechgirl at August 11, 2005 9:40 AM

Thanks!

Posted by: Ith at August 11, 2005 9:54 AM

One of the things about this story that really bothers me is that the commissioners have been strutting about for months: THEY were going to get the answers, THEY were going to find out what went wrong, and THEY were going to pass out their all-knowing wisdom of what we should do to keep this from happening again.

Now, we find out that they apparently buried evidence in their own report.

Grrrr...

Posted by: docjim505 at August 12, 2005 8:02 AM

As I understand it, the "wall" was DOJ policy, not law enacted by Congress. However, that Gorelick was allowed to be on the 9/11 Commission is absolutely insane. And that Berger got off with pleading to a misdemeanor is sickening.

Posted by: Dave J at August 12, 2005 8:25 PM