The Sept. 11 commission will investigate a claim that U.S. defense intelligence officials identified ringleader Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers as a likely part of an al-Qaida cell more than a year before the hijackings but didn't forward the information to law enforcement.Of course, the 9/11 Commission will take another 15 minutes of fame...
Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa. and vice chairman of the House Armed Services and
Homeland Security committees, said Tuesday the men were identified in 1999 by a classified military intelligence unit known as "Able Danger." If true, that's an earlier link to al-Qaida than any previously disclosed intelligence about Atta.
10:30AM Update
Neal Boortz just might have the answer to my question...So why wasn't anything done?Naturally, Gorelick was supposedly hired at the request of Hillary Clinton...
Because information wasn't allowed to be shared between federal agencies, thanks to 9/11 commissioner and former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick (not pronounced the way it's spelled.) She instituted rules that forbade sharing of intelligence between, for instance, the CIA and the FBI.
And of course, the burning question is...was President Bill Clinton informed? It doesn't matter. Nothing was done about it. The real question is why nothing was done.
