Remember John O'Neil's briefcase? THEY'RE DOING IT AGAIN(ABLE DANGER)

[seemslikeadream]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/talk/

What bothered me the most about the whole sad story was the fact that FBI Director Louis Freeh allowed himself to be manipulated by career hacks into ignoring the valuable information that O'Neill was gathering on Al Qaeda. If he was allowed to go to Yemen to investigate the USS Cole incident, I'm almost positive he would have come up with information that would have been invaluable to the Bureau in its efforts to determine Al Qaeda's true intentions. The links were there, O'Neill proved it. But there were some in the Bureau who felt he was a threat to their careers and went after him with a vengence.I'm almost certain the "missing briefcase" incident was deliberately orchestrated and individuals who were at the meeting mentioned were involved in the conspiracy to discredit O'Neill and force him out of the Bureau.

He was ambushed by individuals in the Bureau who were jealous of his stature. If more people worked as hard as he did, there may not have been a 9/11.


John O'Neil died on 9/11 in the Twin Towers
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column110c.html

Pentagon charges Army officer (Able Danger)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1821864&mesg_id=1821864

Be careful Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, stay out of small planes and tall buildings




BUDDY BUDDY
http://www.gsnmagazine.com.nyud.net:8090/images/aug_05/atta.jpg
DO THE MATH

24 MINUTES

THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A MILITARY ORDER WATCH THIS VIDEO

http://www.bushflash.com/buddy.html


http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/24/124834/678


DIA Agents were ordered to put yellow Post-its over Atta's face and the face's of 3 other 9/11 terrorists

"We were directed to take those 3M yellow stickers and place them over the faces of Atta and the other terrorists and pretend they didn't exist," the intelligence officer told GSN."

Intel agents Michael Shaffer and Scott Philpott have confirmed Rep. Weldon's claims that a chart with Atta's face, soon the photos of 3 other members of the 9-11 terror team, were known to DIA team Able Danger by early 2000.

This diary will show that Pete Schoomaker and Philip Zelikow are two of the main Perpetraitors in this scandal, that they deliberately withheld information from the President of the United States that would have prevented 9/11, that they and their neo-con rulers Let It Happen On Purpose.

Of this there can no longer be any doubt.



MUST READ - RE: ABLE DANGER INFO
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4447706

Hopsicker: Able Danger Intel Exposed "Protected" Heroin Trafficking
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x149481


Able Danger: Short Time-line
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4441903

Was Able Danger Shut Down After It Detected Condi-PRC Spy Ring?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4494524



Senate May Hold Hearings on Able Danger, Info Sharing
Thursday, August 25, 2005


Able Danger (search) is the code name for a military-intelligence unit that apparently learned a year before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that lead hijacker Mohamed Atta (search) and other terrorists were already in the United States.

One of the central Able Danger claims — that military lawyers blocked the sharing of the Atta information from the FBI in the late summer and early fall of 2000 — will be a focus of the committee's if a hearing takes place, FOX News has confirmed.

Some analysts involved with Able Danger have recently gone public with their findings, saying they were discouraged from looking further into Atta, and their attempts to share their information with the FBI were thwarted, because Atta was a legal foreign visitor at the time.

"This story needs to be told. The American people need to be told what could have been done to prevent 3,000 people from losing their lives," said Rep. Curt Weldon (search), R-Pa.

Weldon drew attention to Able Danger by speaking about it on the House floor and publicly calling for the Sept. 11 commission to explain why the intelligence information wasn't detailed in its final report.

Some Able Danger analysts, including Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer (search) and Navy Capt. Scott Phillpott (search), claim that in October 2003, they told commission staffers of the presence of Al Qaeda operatives in the United States in 2000.


more
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166800,00.html


Senate May Hold Hearings on Able Danger, Info Sharing
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1727804&mesg_id=1727804




Condi in Middle of Able Danger ‘Cover Up’"

Weldon is now saying that the Pentagon cover up of able danger “will shake the country to its roots."

...

If the claims made by the Able Danger participants and Rep. Weldon are confirmed, former National Security Adviser Rice and other Bush Administration officials will face a barrage of questions. First would likely be an inquiry into why the administration unceremoniously axed the Able Danger project in May of 2001.

During an August 20th interview on C-Span’s Washington Journal, Able Danger member Lt. Col. Schaffer posed a question of his own:

"The American public should ask themselves: Why would the leadership of DoD shut down, terminate, a project which was aimed at targeting al-Qaeda offensively? ...

"Why would they shut that down, four months before 9/11? That’s the big question right now, we have to ask that. I don’t know the answer to that question because I know my side of the story, I know that when a 2 star general got in my face and said, “I’m a 2 star general and you are not. You are to stop your support of Able Danger.” That’s what I know personally. But the question has to be: Who told him to do that? ...

"And why did the rest of the project, I’m talking about Special Operations Command and the Army portion of this, why was that terminated?

"Those are the questions that need to be asked."


more...

http://www.theinternationalpost.com/z30082005.html

Congressman Weldon -- Why now? Why ever?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4500623

Three more assert Pentagon knew of 9/11 ringleader By Will Dunham

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three more people associated with a secret U.S. military intelligence team have asserted that the program identified September 11 ringleader Mohammed Atta as an Al Qaeda suspect inside the United States more than a year before the 2001 attacks, the Pentagon said on Thursday.

The Pentagon said a three-week review had turned up no documents to back up the assertion, but did not rule out that such documents relating to the classified operation had been destroyed.

Navy Capt. Scott Phillpott and Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer last month came forward with statements that a secret intelligence program code-named "Able Danger" had identified Atta, the lead hijacker in the attacks that killed 3,000 people, in early 2000. Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Curt Weldon (news, bio, voting record), vice chairman of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, also went public with the allegations.

Pat Downs, a senior policy analyst in the office of the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, told reporters that as part of the review, the Pentagon interviewed 80 people.

Downs said that three more people, as well as Phillpott and Shaffer, recalled the existence of an intelligence chart identifying Atta by name. Four of the five recalled a photo of Atta accompanying the chart, Downs said.

Pentagon officials declined to identify the three by name, but said they were an analyst with the military's Special Operations Command, an analyst with the Land Information Warfare Assessment Center and a contractor who supported the center.

Downs said all five were considered "credible people."

But officials said an exhaustive search of tens of thousands of documents and electronic files related to Able Danger failed to find the chart or other documents corroborating the identification of Atta. Phillpott has said Atta was identified by Able Danger by January or February of 2000.

"We have not discovered that chart," Downs said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050901/pl_nm/security_attacks_pentagon_dc


Three more assert Pentagon knew of 9/11 ringleader
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1744982&mesg_id=1744982

Specter Wants Answers About 'Able Danger'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1796658&mesg_id=1796658


NYT/Reuters: Pentagon Blocks Testimony at Senate Hearing on Terrorist
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1795221&mesg_id=1795221

NOW - ON CAPITOL HILL - Able Danger Inquiry CSPAN3 9:30am et
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4836496

Able Danger ties Condi Rice to Chinese espionage! (really!)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4846388&mesg_id=4846388

VIDEO-the Senate Judicial Committee ABLE DANGER saga
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?

[bananas]

1. kick and nominate

as if that'll make any difference.

[dbeach]

2. O'Neil died in WTC

Another coincidence.the man with lots of facts about terorists
gets killed by terrorists

lota that happening since 11/00 when Gore won and bush got annointed

[flyarm]

3. remember FBI Director Louis Freeh was opus dei ( catholic)

i remember reading in books about robert hansen ( the us spy) that he went to the opus dei church in either d.c. or virginina where all the people in the government who were the movers and shakers went...and where L.Freeh went and he would sit near him in church..all the while he was selling our fbi secrets!! and i remember reading that lois freeh would ignore hansen and that made hansen mad..or upset him...

but yes FBI Director Louis Freeh was an opus dei sell out to our government!

fly

[dbeach]

4. GOOD INFO

How the elites operate in secret societys to control the underprivleged

BUT HEY its all a big yawner to the MM who remian fixated on theri big egos and even bigger salaries wonder when the next distraction will hit.??.its coming soon

[seemslikeadream]

5. JohnO'Neill was FBI agent Bush kept from Bin Laden investigations

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=516868



As O'Neill and his team probed deeper into the Cole bombing, his investigation was abruptly thwarted by, of all people, the United States ambassador to Yemen, Barbara Bodine. In the official version reported in the American press almost a year later, O'Neill's team was booted out of Yemen in November, 2000, because Bodine objected to O'Neill's “heavy-handed style.” Another State Department source at the time confirmed that Bodine refused to allow O'Neill and his team to return to continue their investigation because his team was “too large” and many of the agents carried “heavy weapons” - automatics - that she found objectionable.

This account of how a local ambassador was able to thwart the single most important investigation to America's national security just because she didn't like the lead investigator's manners is impossible to swallow. What's more incredible is that the FBI allegedly wasn't allowed to return to Yemen to continue their investigation until Bodine left her ambassadorship in August 2001. Keep that date in mind, August 2001. A lot of people seemed to retire right around then. But I'll get to that later.

Bodine is an interesting character herself. She had served as the State Department's Political-Military officer for the Arabian Peninsula, as Deputy Principal Officer in the embassy in Baghdad and then moved to Deputy Chief of Mission in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion and occupation in 1990. She was one of the last Americans to leave Kuwait. In 1997 Bodine, after serving as the State Department's associate director in counter-terrorism, was appointed ambassador to Yemen, birthplace of bin Laden.

Clearly Bodine wasn't your typical rich-donor ambassador. Yet just as clearly, she couldn't have stopped O'Neill's, and the FBI's, investigation, all on her own. The move must have been blessed by then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and/or others at her level. The coincidences in Bodine's timing should alone raise eyebrows: the FBI's lead al Qaeda expert barred from investigating the terrorists' attack from November 2000 until August 2001 - that is, until the next attack. If it's not strange, it is at the very least infuriating as hell that the investigation was thwarted due to bad manners. It's possible that information from the Cole investigation could have led to information about the 9/11 plans. Why wasn't this ever mentioned in press accounts? Why don't they care enough to push it further? I WANNA KNOW!

http://www.exile.ru/150/150010101.html

Why didn't Bush follow up on the USS Cole bombing ??
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1073633#1073913

Clarke's Book dedicated to John O'Neill and others


From Against All Enemies

To those who were murdered on
September 11, 2001, including those who
tried to stop it, among them John O'Neill and the
extraordinarily brave passengers on United flight 93,
and to all those they left behind.



John O'Neill is index on 16 pages of the book..



FBI counter-terrorism chief, John O'Neil, may he rest in peace


In August 2001, FBI Deputy Director John O'Neill resigned from his post over George W. Bush's policy on terrorism and Osama bin Laden. Specifically, O'Neill's department was told to "back off" their bin Laden and Al Queda investigations while the Bush administration negotiated with the Taliban. O'Neill became the security chief of the World Trade Center - where he died during the events of 9/11.
http://www.rememberjohn.com/

The mystery surrounding the death of John O'Neill


And while I was a bit taken at how quickly - and confidently - the fingers were pointing only hours after the 9/11 bombings, I was positively shaken by the first red flag that popped up. His name was John O'Neill - or more precisely, he is the seam that shows. Dated September 12, in a Washington Post article by Vernon Loeb, it was revealed that O'Neill, who died in his capacity as head of security for the World Trade Center, was also formerly the New York FBI Counterterror chief responsible for the investigation into Osama bin Laden. That could perhaps be written off as one of those freak synchronicities. There were the other items - reported quite blandly, in that "there's nothing to see here, folks" tone - that gave me that sinking feeling. Apparently, O'Neill had a falling-out with the Ambassador to Yemen over his investigative style and was banned from returning there. But then there was that other nugget that I had trouble digesting - that O'Neill had resigned from a thirty-year career in the FBI "under a cloud" over an incident in Tampa - and then left to take up the security position at the WTC (only two weeks before!).


http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP206A.html


PBS Airdate: Thursday, October 3, at 9pm, 90 minutes

When the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001, among the thousands killed was the one man who may have known more about Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda than any other person in America: John O'Neill.

The former head of the FBI's flagship antiterrorism unit in New York City, O'Neill had investigated the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Africa and the USS Cole in Yemen. For five years, he led the fight to track down and prosecute Al Qaeda operatives throughout the world. But his flamboyant, James Bond style and obsession with Osama bin Laden made him a controversial figure inside the buttoned-down world of the FBI. Just two weeks before September 11th, O'Neill left the bureau for a job in the private sector--as head of security at the World Trade Center. He died there after rushing back into the burning towers to aid in the rescue efforts.

On Thursday, October 3, at 9 P.M. on PBS (check local listings), FRONTLINE kicks off its 20th anniversary season with "The Man Who Knew," a special 90-minute documentary chronicling John O'Neill's quest to bring Osama bin Laden to justice.

"America has been hunting bin Laden for a decade, but before 9/11 few really understood the magnitude of the threat he posed," says FRONTLINE producer/director Michael Kirk. "John O'Neill was one of the few who did. His fight to root out Al Qaeda--and to convince the FBI bureaucracy to react to the threat--offers important insights into America's fight against terrorism, both its successes and its failures."

In exclusive interviews with many of O'Neill's closest friends and associates, FRONTLINE pieces together the compelling narrative of O'Neill's struggle to convince the FBI to pay attention to the threat posed by Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

"He was obsessed by him--he wanted to know what made him tick," says ABC producer Chris Isham, a friend of O'Neill's. "He wanted to know where he was, what he was doing, and what his approach was, and where his assets were. He was completely obsessed by the guy, no question about that."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/press/2103.html



How did John O'Neill wind up as security chief at the WTC?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1300595

[Supersedeas]

20. the barbara bodine/john o'neil connection has not been fully explored

[jsamuel]

6. You know he is a good guy when they start accusing him of stealing pens.

[earth mom]

7. Kicked and Nominated!

:kick:

[al bupp]

8. Then there are the reports from Daniel Hopsicker?

Many links at:

http://www.madcowprod.com/

[Mandate My Ass]

9. kick

:kick:

[Norquist Nemesis]

10. "Deliberately withheld information from the President?"

What? Did they mistakenly deliver the unedited August 6th PDB or something?

Bush knew. Cheney too.

[seemslikeadream]

15. Are you refering to Clinton not being told, Norquist Nemesis?

CLINTON WAS NEVER TOLD RICHARD CLARKE WAS NEVER TOLD

Able Danger is a Pandora's Box that will blow up in the RW's face.
Re-open the 9/11 investigation? BRING IT ON! Here's why:

So the responsibility for stopping DIA program Able Danger, which had Identified Atta and 3 other hijackers and linked them to 56 other al-Queda terrorists overseas, has been laid at the feet of Bill Clinton--except he and Richard Clarke were never told about it at all.

That's right. Bill Clinton was never told about Able Danger and the ID of Atta because Richard Clarke was never told about AD. How do I know? He never wrote about it in his book, nor did he testify about it's existence before the 9-11 Commission!

You see Richard Clarke was known for being obsessed with Osama Bin Laden and HE was the guy the neo-con moles did not want to find out about Atta and the gang. Schoomaker and the neo-cons knew telling the FBI would inform Clarke and then Mr. Laser Beam himself, President of the United State William Jefferson Clinton, would have gotten involved--and the Pearl Harbor-type attack would never take place (the neo-cons talked about the need for a Pearl Harbor-type attack before the PNAC Plan would be accepted by the American people--so when one presented itself, they let it happen).

General Pete Schoomaker, who were later heavily rewarded by the neo-cons in the Bush Administration, blocked the upward motion of the DIA information by having Shaffer and Philpott meet with Pentagon lawyers opinions--lawyers who were rubberstamping ridiculous legal opinions to carry out the neo-con plan. These certain people were neo-cons in the Clinton Administration, covertly carrying out the PNAC plan to let a Pearl Harbor-type attack occur so Iraq and 6 other countries could be invaded.


http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/24/124834/678

[Norquist Nemesis]

19. No, Bush n/t

[Mandate My Ass]

11. Anybody know if the hearings are going to continue tomorrow?

The Senate Judiciary Committee web site has no hearings listed for tomorrow.

[seemslikeadream]

12. The hearing was supposed to be Oct. 5 but

I read somewhere it's postponded do to a Jewish religious holiday?

[Mandate My Ass]

13. Oh shnap I forgot.

So there is no firm date set. Damn!

On edit: Thanks for the update. :hi:

[H2O Man]

14. Recommended.

This is an important topic. You provide food for thought, to say the least. thank you.

[seemslikeadream]

16. Just a few more dots - Norquist, Abramoff, Al-Arian

Three arrested in gangland-style murder of Suncruz founder 'Gus' Boulis
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1809114

An intersting Able Danger Diary at dKos
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x56234

[Mandate My Ass]

17. Wow, the tentacles of this thing go far and deep

thanks.

[pberq]

18. Kick!!!

[0007]

21. Thanks for sharing that powerful video and all those links.

You are indeed a prince!

[Octafish]

22. There's a woman who They are trying to silence...

Appears she was friends with O'Neill. Her story ties in with the London bombings. Small world.

Haroon Aswat…FBI agent threatens former USDA federal agent, now staff reporter for The New Criminologist.

Published on 25 September 2005 | Author BERRY-DEE, Christopher.

Haroon Aswat – the man British Police believe was behind the London bombings – was working for MI6, it has been confirmed by leading U.S. and French intelligence asset/agents.

Now an FBI agent in Seattle – name removed for security reasons, but can be published at the drop of a hat – has demanded that former USDA federal agent, Dr Janette Parker, stop talking to the British media about how the FBI obstructed their own top terrorism investigator, John O’Neill in his enquiries.

Dr Parker, who worked alongside O’Neill, although not in an official capacity’ is fearful of her life.

“Janet is a highly-professional and honest person. She is very brave,” says Christopher Berry-Dee, publisher of TNC. “But, now the cat is out of the bag, and we have ensured that she will be protected by circulating her information to leading British newspapers and the media.”

Dr Parker writes: “The American press can be silenced but not the British press. MI-5 and MI-6 and not happy about the intelligence failure on the American side of the Atlantic, especially withholding information about Haroon Aswat’s intention for additional bombings and his fund raising in Seattle area in March 2002 (after 911).”

Haroon Aswat is the primary suspect as the mastermind of the London Bombings 7/7. The FBI can assert that Haroon was not in Seattle on March 6, 2002, but British intelligence had him under close surveillance and they know whether he was in England or not.

CONTINUED...

http://www.newcriminologist.co.uk/news.asp?id=-1677497717

Go get 'em, 'Dreamy!

[seemslikeadream]

23. OMG!!!!

I'm speechless




Thanks

Did ya hear the Able Danger hearing happened behind closed doors yesterday, Col. Shaffer testifying in secret. I don't think Curt was invited

[Octafish]

24. Thanks for the heads-up, seemslikeadream!

I've been snowed under at work. By the time I get home, after 14 hours or so at the rabbit, my eyeballs are dried out at the end of their stalks.



Plus, I've been feeling like a fossil of late.

Thanks for the inspiration, True Friend!