Saturday, October 22, 2005

Curt Weldon: Gorelick Aide Blocked Able Danger Testimony

Newsmax relays the scoop:

"The person who debriefed [Able Danger analyst] Scott Philpot was, in fact, the lead staffer for Jamie Gorelick," Weldon told the Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes. "His name was Dieter Snell."

Weldon contended: "It was Dieter Snell who did not brief the 9/11 Commission. The 9/11 Commissioners were never briefed on Able Danger."

Gorelick was the lead Democrat on the 9/11 Commission.

As well as being the primary Clintonoid architect of the "wall" between the CIA and FBI preventing the sharing of counter-terrorism intelligence that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks. Her presence on the 9/11 Commission instead of as a hostile witness in front of it always did look like a blatant CYA gambit. Revelations like this just provide redundant proof of it.

And we're not just talking about Gorelick's ass, either:

Weldon said Able Danger team members have been "gagged" [and smeared] by the Pentagon and by Defense Intelligence Agency leaders who stand to be embarrassed by their revelations.

"The Defense Intelligence Agency has people who were held over from the previous administration," he told Fox News. "They were there when [Able Danger] brought forward this information."

This would seem to answer Cap'n Ed's question of what has them so afraid. That and the fact that Clintonoids are, as a general rule, scumbags of the lowest order. Which makes it all the more appalling that the Bushies are, at best, indifferent to justice in this affair, and perhaps actively helping these "holdovers" cover up their criminal complicity in allowing the wholesale slaughter of three thousand American civilians.

If only a Republican above Curt Weldon's pay grade could muster the gumption to wage political war against the DisLoyal Opposition with anything like the intrepidity with which we're waging literal war against the jihadis overseas. Even if just as a photo-op, seeing Bill Clinton and Osama bin Laden locked up in the same jail cell would cover an awful lot of George Bush's "sins."