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Sept. 30, 2006 Curt Weldon, the pudgy, pertinacious little conspiracy theorist who is the US Representative from Pennsylvania’s Seventh District, in Greater Philadelphia, must have been sorely disappointed on September 22, 2006, when The Washington Post journalist, Josh White, reported that Thomas Gimble, acting Inspector General of the Defense Department, had released a 90-page report that stated unequivocally, “We found no charts or other documentation created before 9/11 that contained a photograph or name of Mohamed Atta and was produced or possessed by the Able Danger team," http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/21/AR2006092101831.html Weldon is not satisfied with the results of the investigation that produced the report, and he may attempt to continue with his one-man crusade to overturn the 9/11 Commission report. He had maintained that Able Danger, a classified Pentagon data-mining operation, had identified Mohamed Atta and others by name and/or photograph well in advance of the attack on the World Trade Center, the implication being that, had they acted duly and efficiently, they might have changed the course of history. He also accused the 9/11 Commission itself of whitewashing its own failure to heed information about Able Danger’s foreknowledge of Atta’s involvement in terrorism. So what’s it to me? It just so happened that in the course of some rather heated debates I was having with Dr. Brooks Mick at the time, he also kindled the Able Danger smokescreen. Otherwise, I would just have chuckled it off. On June 19, 2005, Keith Phucas, of The Times Herald of Norristown , Pennsylvania , first broke the news. On June 27, Weldon was making noises about it in Congress. Seeing how Weldon works, I wouldn’t be surprised if he was The Times Herald’s source, and merely made it look as if he were responding in righteous indignation to information provided by others. Weldon wrote a book on the subject, entitled, “Countdown to Terror.” I’d hate to think that Weldon was trying to brew a tempest in a teapot with no better reason than to attain best-sellerdom. Weldon’s main witness was Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer, who claims that well over a year before 9/11 he saw spreadsheets with pictures of Atta and other of the hijackers, but Shaffer admitted later that he didn’t recall the pictures until someone “reminded” him that they had been there. Then Navy Captain Scott Philpott cropped up as a witness, ostensibly adding weight to Shaffer’s “disclosures”, but it turned out that Philpott was the one who had “reminded” Shaffer of the pictures in the first place. This sort of political mitosis whereby one witness subdivides into two witnesses is what makes me wonder about the possibility of a Phucas-Weldon mitosis. Weldon also said that he presented to then-Deputy National Security Advisor, Stephen Hadley, a chart with Atta’s picture, but later admitted that he couldn’t really remember whether the picture was actually on the chart, which was in reality some sort of specimen or exhibit. What’s really absurd about the whole matter is that we have grown men alleging in 2004 that they recalled seeing in 1999 photographs and names of Atta and some of the others. It’s incredible to me that someone could remember a photograph 5 years later. Even more amazing is the idea that typical Anglo-Saxon English-speaking types would remember difficult Arabic names after 5 years. Here’s a picture of Weldon pinning a medal on Moammar Qaddafi at a Moonie rally: http://www.iapprovethismessiah.com/2004/06/weldon-khadafy-and-moongate.html Dr. Brooks Mick clambered aboard the Weldon balloon as early as September of 2005, reiterating his confidence in Weldon later, in November of the same year, with his now-amusing article, “Able Danger Redux”: http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/sept/article198.html http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/nov/article341.html So I think it’s time to say, “Able Danger Requiescat in Pace,” as long as we’re throwing Latin around. ------------ About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far. I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents. Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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