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This arrived in my email today:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('911Citizenswatch', 'D')ear friends, colleagues and Citizenswatch members,

The Able Danger scandal and cover-up is mushrooming into a cloud that
now looms over the 9/11 Commission, the DoD, and the DIA. Rep. Curt
Weldon said, "to me this is the most important story of my lifetime." He
talked about friends he lost on September 11th. He raged and attacked
the 9/11 Commission for omitting Able Danger. The day before yesterday's
press conference he accused former Commission Vice-Chair Hamilton of
lying to protect the Bush administration as reported by Govexec.com; that's
right, the Bush Administration. 9/11 has truly turned the world upside down.
Hopefully, the mainstream press will catch up and recognize how big a story
this is and how serious the charges are.

Once eyes turn back to 9/11 and the integrity of the Commission is seriously,
rightly and broadly questioned, there will be many other still unanswered
questions raised about the attacks and the flawed findings of the 9/11 Report
and calls for further investigation. As Joe Wilson pointed out to the
Washington Post not long after his famous op-ed exposing the Yellowcake
farce, "if they lied to us about this, what else are they lying to us about?"

Currently there are two committees in the Senate and four in the House
investigating Able Danger and as of yesterday the Inspector general at
the Pentagon is investigating as well. But still the key witnesses are
effectively gagged by the DoD. In response, Rep. Weldon has initiated a
petition yesterday already signed by over 100 of his colleagues calling
upon the DoD to permit testimony of Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, Captain
Scott Phillpott, and the other witnesses.

Weldon leveled allegations against former 9/11 staffer Dietrich Snell
who interviewed the Able Danger team leader Phillpott tens days before
the release of the 9/11 Report and who heard from Phillpott that indeed
they had identified Atta. Given that Snell is now at NY Attorney
General Eliot Spitzer's office in NYC there is a new opportunity to demand
Spitzer dispell any questions of conflict of interest and act upon the
extensive 9/11 Complaint brought by families and victims filed with his
office last Fall. [See http://www.justicefor911.org]. [Perhaps someone
should sue the Commissioners for fraud for starters.] In response to
Phillpott's putting his career on the line with his private testimony
regarding Atta and the obstructions they encountered in getting this to
the FBI, Snell asked Phillpott, "What do you want to do with this
information, we are going to print in 10 days?" Well, we know that neither
Roemer (a dem) nor Lehman (a Republican) were briefed and neither
the Report nor the post report 'monographs' made any mention of Able
Danger.

Please call your representatives in Congress (see number below) and ask
them to sign Rep. Weldon's petition so that the American people can
hear the truth from those that identified Atta, Al-Sheehi, Al-Hazmi, and
Al-Mihdhar a full year before the atttacks and who experienced repeated
obstructions in trying to bring this information forward to the FBI and
who can speak to who ignored this intelligence and tried to bury it,
repeatedly.

Below are a few select quotes from Rep. Weldon's press conference
yesterday followed by snippets from today's articles on the subject as well
as a transcript of his appearance on Lou Dobbs.

Thank you for your concern and dedication to finding the truth. It is
never too late to set the record straight and hold those responsible to
account.

Kyle F. Hence
9/11 CitizensWatch
For extensive resources and articles on Able Danger visit:
http://www.911citizenswatch.org

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There is a cover-up here. It is clear. It is unequivocal.
I have no other recourse but to ask for a criminal investigation.
The 9/11 Commission refers to Able Danger as historically
insignificant.
It is my contention that there was a deliberate attempt to not have
this story told to the American people.
There is no mention of Able Danger in the entire 9/11 Commission
Report.
There's been nothing but denial and spin since the story broke in the
first week of August. Denial and Spin.

You know Richard Nixon had to resign from office because he tried to
cover up a third-rate burglary. No one was injured. No money was stolen.
No one was killed. Here we have a cover-up of the single largest
incident in the history of our nation...[might be missing rest of this
quote?]

This story is about intimidation, it's about harassment, it's about
ruining the career of a professional military officer. It's about denying
the American people the basic facts of what happened to 3000 human
beings and 17 sailors. It is unacceptable. It's outrageous. It's
un-American. It's undemocratic, it's not what our country stands for.

The 9/11 Commission missed the boat. They flubbed it. They have no
credibility on this issue whatsoever.
It's only a matter of time before this story is going to come out.
I can't believe the mainstream media turns its head and does nothing to
investigate this.