ABLE DANGER UPDATE

Here’s the status as of today, the following people …

LtCol Tony Shaffer (US Army)
Capt Scott Philpott (US Navy)
James D. Smith (DoD Contractor)

… have all come forward to verify the fact that ABLE DANGER identified Mohammed Atta and his merry band of suicide pilots as early as January / February, 2000 - a year and a half prior to the attacks of 9-11. And although Philpott and Smith haven’t come out yet and specifically said that they told their chain of command about Atta – they certainly know that Shaffer is telling everyone that they did – and they aren’t “correcting” the message he’s sending. Translation – they told their chain of command. Only makes sense since that's about half of the job of a military man - informing your chain of command - about just about everything.

This “allegation” has been in the news for several weeks now – and skeptics have not been able to place a single hole in these men’s stories.

The Pentagon can only say that they can’t find any “documentation” that confirms that ABLE DANGER did what these men say it did.

BUT – the Pentagon will not say a solitary peep about what others who worked with these men on ABLE DANGER say. They have access to these other folks – and some of them are very high ranking – but they won’t tell us what they have to say about this.

Congressman Weldon has told the Pentagon that they should not make any more statements whatsoever about ABLE DANGER until they have completed a FULL investigation. Issuing any more half-cocked statements will make the findings of any Pentagon investigation seem “predetermined” – that’s his word.

Does that sound like the charge of a guy who knows he has a “chink” in his armor? It doesn’t to me. That sounds like a pretty bold warning from a guy who has his ducks in a row and knows he’s bulletproof on the issue. And I have to admit – the identical stories from an Army O-5, a Navy O-6, and civilian contractor are pretty convincing to me.

Any skepticism I may have had that this is the real deal has all but eroded. Unless these 3 guys – and Congressman Weldon are just engaging in an outright conspiratorial lie – then even more people out there exist who will eventually come forward to verify this story.

And more, this blockbuster story has now reopened the whole debate as to whether IRAQ may have played a role in the 9-11 attacks. Liberals have insisted from the outset that Iraq was not involved in 9-11 – and the 9-11 commission backed up their claims in the final report. However, since ABLE DANGER places Atta in the US much earlier than the 9-11 commission does – this calls into question the 9-11 commission’s whole timeline on Mohammed Atta’s actual travel itinerary – and leaves open the possibility that he may have met with Iraqi agents at some point in time as the Czechoslovakian police have insisted all along. Indeed, not only is the 9-11 commission’s timeline on Atta’s travels in question now – virtually everything else in that report is also.

I’m sure there will be more to follow