Best to be Cautious
Here is the text of the 9/11 Commission's statement. And note that Jim Geraghty at National Review sounds a note of caution.
I tend to be agree that it's time for Congressman Weldon to put his cards on the table and allow his source to come forward and tell what he knows (and recalls) in detail.
That being said, it still isn't clear to me why the Commission denied meetings that had, in fact, occurred.
We'll follow this matter and keep you posted. Whatever the truth is -- whether the Commission has grievously erred or Congressman Weldon has -- we deserve the truth.
I tend to be agree that it's time for Congressman Weldon to put his cards on the table and allow his source to come forward and tell what he knows (and recalls) in detail.
That being said, it still isn't clear to me why the Commission denied meetings that had, in fact, occurred.
We'll follow this matter and keep you posted. Whatever the truth is -- whether the Commission has grievously erred or Congressman Weldon has -- we deserve the truth.
posted by LadybugUSA at 2:43 PM
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Carol -
Weldon needs to get his stories straight. He seems to have a few loose ends...let alone screws.
According to Time
In a particularly dramatic scene in Weldon’s book, Countdown to Terror, the Pennsylvania Republican described personally handing to then-Deputy National Security Adviser Steve Hadley, just after Sept. 11, an Able Danger chart produced in 1999 identifying Atta. But Weldon told TIME he’s no longer certain Atta’s name was on that original document. The congressman says he handed Hadley his only copy. Still, last week he referred reporters to a recently reconstructed version of the chart in his office where, among dozens of names and photos of terrorists from around the world, there was a color mug shot of Mohammad Atta, circled in black marker.
Pentagon officials are playing down any controversy. They say they can find nothing produced by the Able Danger program, which involved fewer than half a dozen intelligence analysts, mentioning Atta’s name.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1093694,00.html
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