Is there some reason the 9-11 Commission forget to mention that the military intelligence unit "Able Danger" had identified Mohammed Atta as a member of a US-based al-Qaeda terrorist cell a year before the attacks? Did the Commission think we might not be interested? Al Felzenberg, spokesman for the Commission's follow-up 9-11 Discourse Project thinks so:
"'Even if it were valid, it would've joined the lists of dozens of other instances where information was not shared,' Felzenberg said."
MI, warned off by nervous Pentagon lawyers, did not tell the FBI.
After first denying that the Commission had ever received any such information about Atta, Felzenberg is now saying they did indeed receive the info, but it's no big deal -- just "another instance where information was not shared."
He could just as well be referring to the 9-11 Commission and the American public.
Why did the Commission not mention the report on the terrorist who led the attack against us?
How could they possibly fail to tell us everything they knew about Atta?
UPDATE
Michelle Malkin has links to reactions from the blogging world, and links to newspaper articles are here.)
I wonder if it wasn't mentioned by the commision so as not to draw attention to the intelligence "wall" erected by Jamie Gorelick, one of the commission members?
Wonder why so many consider the commission a joke?
Posted by: greg at August 12, 2005 10:02 AMI swear to God, no matter anyone's politics, there's no excuse for the Commission's omitting this information about Atta.
Posted by: Donnah at August 12, 2005 10:12 AMJamie Gorelick... has much to answer for. I never could fathom why she was even on the commision, having been directly involved in creating the wall between agencies that prevented communications that *possibly* could have prevented 9/11.
We shall see what she has to say now that the spotlights are focused on her and the others on a rather discredited commision that ignored information which didn't fit their preconcieved idea's.
Posted by: Gmac at August 14, 2005 08:08 PMWe'll see how this all shakes down. I'm not so concerned about what individual panel members might or might not have done, and I don't care to pass along any theories or monger any conspiracies.
I've never been interested in stuff like that and never will be.
All I care about is whether or not there was Atta information that the 9-11 Commission didn't tell us about.
Posted by: Donnah at August 14, 2005 09:44 PM