Pentagon blocking September 11 inquiry: Senator

[tocqueville]

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2005-09-21T211406Z_01_KWA176340_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-ATTACKS.xml&archived=False

By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican chairman of the Senate judiciary committee accused the Pentagon on Wednesday of stonewalling an inquiry into claims that the U.S. military identified four September 11 hijackers more than a year before the 2001 attacks.

The Defense Department barred several witnesses from testifying at a judiciary committee hearing and instead sent a top-level official who could provide little information on al Qaeda-related intelligence uncovered by a secret military team code-named Able Danger.

"That looks to me like it may be obstruction of the committee's activities, something we will have to determine," said the panel's chairman, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania.

Specter also complained that the Pentagon delivered hundreds of pages of documents related to Able Danger late on the eve of the hearing, giving his committee staff no time to review the material.

[wakeme2008]

1. See today's Tampa Tribune article

I posted here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1796518&mesg_id=1796518

[stillcool]

7. thanks for that...

catch! Book-marked for later reading.

[cthrumatrix]

2. the media can't "walk and chew gum"...zero focus on this major issue

[hippiechick]

3. Wow, Arlen !

:wow: He's turning into a human being !!!
Sorry that it had to happen under such circumstances, though ...

[Im with Rosey]

4. I hope Specter stands his ground

I seemed he was quite angry during the hearing and doesn't want to take no for an answer. I hope no one gets to him before he rattles some chains. Might be worth sending some encouraging words to him.

[orpupilofnature57]

8. Remember who invented the theory of " The Magic Bullet "

[orpupilofnature57]

5. Just another monster Poppy was too hooked into. They probably don't ..

have permission from their boss, Halliburton.

[acmejack]

6. The pentagon needs to be brought under control.

Jefferson was very worried about the military, he advocated NO standing army. He felt a well trained and armed militia would be sufficient and it would be if the people running the show quit trying to exploit other people's resources.

[peacetalksforall]

9. I use to think Specter was there for Richard Mellon-Scaife exclusively.

Arlen seems to have found Americanism.

[seemslikeadream]

10. Watch the hearing here

http://www.cspan.org/watch/cspan3_wm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS3