Nine Eleven

[Captain Grifter]

This interview with Curt Weldon is a tiny bit clunky.  Weldon was had been a firefighter in Pennsylvania, he was a Congressman there on the day of Nine Eleven, and he developed close ties with FDNY afterward.  This interview is clunky because he gives his answers in prepared statements.  Nonetheless, all of this is relevant.  Curt Weldon talks about his new book, Able Danger, and @5:31 he claims Osama bin Laden was "roamimg" in Baluchistan, Iran.  He was involved in Army intelligence and privvy to information the general public did not have.

I asked AI to give a summary of his book:

Former U.S. Congressman Curt Weldon became a central figure in the controversy surrounding Able Danger, a top-secret pre-9/11 military intelligence data-mining unit. Weldon claimed the unit identified lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta and a Brooklyn-based al-Qaeda cell as early as 2000, but that bureaucratic fears and legal blocks prevented the data from reaching the FBI.


Core Claims by Curt Weldon

• The Mohamed Atta Identification: Weldon asserted that Able Danger data-mining tools mapped out a Brooklyn cell and flagged Mohamed Atta up to 13 times prior to the September 11 attacks.
• Suppressed Warnings: He alleged that military lawyers blocked unit members (such as Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer) from sharing these critical insights with law enforcement due to misinterpretations of the Posse Comitatus Act.
• Cover-up Accusations: Weldon charged that the government intentionally destroyed or ignored vital data-mining evidence and that official investigations glossed over institutional failures.

Official Findings and Pushback

• 9/11 Commission Omission: The official 9/11 Commission did not feature the Able Danger pre-attack identification of Atta in its final report, concluding that the intelligence data was too vague or unverified at the time.
• Pentagon Investigations: A Department of Defense Inspector General report concluded that while some officers vaguely recalled seeing charts with Atta's name post-9/11, Able Danger did not definitively identify Atta or other hijackers before the attacks.
• Weldon's Rejection: Weldon strongly rejected the Pentagon's findings, accusing the administration and defense bureaucracy of a "sickening" cover-up and cherry-picking witness testimony to deflect accountability.