Able Danger Intel Exposed "Protected" Heroin Trafficking

[steve2470]

http://64.70.236.57/08172005.html

(This site calls itself MadCow Morning News)

August 17,2005-Venice, FL.
by Daniel Hopsicker



Mohamed Atta was protected from official scrutiny as part of an officially-protected cocaine and heroin trafficking network with ties to top political figures, including Republican officials Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris, and it was this fact—and not the “terrible lapses” of “weak on terror” Clinton Administration officials cited by Republican Congressman Curt Weldon—which shielded him from being
apprehended before the 9.11 attack.

Weldon alleges that Pentagon lawyers rejected the military intelligence unit’s recommendation to apprehend Atta because he was in the country legally, and therefore information on him could not be shared with law enforcement.

But the “terrible lapses” cited by Weldon do not stem from the nonsensical assertion that Atta had a green card (he did not) which rendered him immune from military investigation but were the result of an officially-protected heroin trafficking operation being conducted on planes like those of Wally Hilliard, whose Lear jet flew "milk runs" down and back to Venezuela every week for 39 weeks in a row before finally running afoul of local DEA agents not been clued-in on the 'joke.'

Moreover the secret military intelligence operation which identified Mohamed Atta and three other hijackers as a threat a year before the 9.11 attack, called Able Danger, was by no means the first military intelligence investigation into the activities of the Hamburg cadre.

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Credible blog ?

[Walt Starr]

1. It bears watching to see if some confirmation appears

Other than that, I'd take it with a grain of salt.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

2. Not a reputable source, unfortunately. n/t

[JohnyCanuck]

4. Why do you say that?

I think Hopsicker is a pretty reputable and damned gutsy investigative journalist. He has a book our "Welcome to Terrorland" and has made in the book and on his website www.madcowprod.com some pretty alarming claims about the intersection of drug smuggling/terrorism (including the 9/11 terrorists)/intelligence operations in Florida, but as far as I can tell he has been backing up his claims with evidence. See his archived stories here: http://64.70.236.57/archive.html

It's interesting too to see that his reports tend to corroborate what FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds has been claiming about the FBI quashing investigations due to links between drug and contraband smuggling, terrorist groups and prominent US officials and politicians.

See Sibel's most recent interview here:

SE: In some cases where the FBI stumbles upon evidence of high-level officials being involved in drug-smuggling, they're even prevented from sharing it with the DEA . The Department of State just comes in and says, "Leave it."

You know, it's funny, after 9/11, the common criticism was that there was "no information-sharing" between the FBI, CIA, and the like, and this is why the terrorists pulled it off – as if we didn't want to cooperate. No information-sharing? That's the biggest BS I ever heard!

CD: So you're saying that the whole process of sorting through the intelligence you received, executing investigations, and getting information where it needed to go was prevented by the State Department?

SE: Several times, yes.

http://www.antiwar.com/deliso/?articleid=6934

[Lerkfish]

3. the tale makes sense in light of Sibel Edmunds' murky hints

but I have no idea how credible or true the blog is.

It certainly connects the dots, though doesn't it?

[JohnyCanuck]

5. kick