Weldon and Able Danger
Rep. Curt Weldon is unquestionably the man of the hour. While the Administration continues to kowtow to State and CIA, following the atrocious New Tone rules which leave it unable to call evil by its correct name, Weldon is telling the story that desperately needs to be told.

In the blog world, Captain's Quarters is master of the story.

Considering that Iraqi intel agents were working in Germany at the same time when Atta was working in Germany, I'm inclined to think CIA's denial of Atta's Prague meeting is a classic piece of misdirection. Sort of like "No, Mom, I didn't break Mr. Wilson's window on Tuesday morning at 9:30", or "I didn't have sex with That Woman in the Oval Office." As long as everyone is arguing about Prague, nobody bothers to ask whether they could have met in Hamburg, which would have been considerably easier.

Update 8/16: seems to be a lot of backtracking, handwashing, and mea-culpaing on this question. I'm going to stick with Weldon. Over the years, living on both sides of the political spectrum, I've learned a few things. First, the authorities almost always have some kind of informers or double agents in troublesome groups. Second, the presence of such informers makes it hard for the authorities to state the full truth. Third, when a story gets as fuzzy and contradictory as this one, you can be sure the gov't is tripping over its own feet because of such informers. Fourth, we knew a whole lot about Atta and his buddies immediately after 9/11. If they were strictly a surprise, it would have taken months to gain that much info.

Now, at this point in the argument, a leftist would take off into the stratosphere of screechy rage, blaming the gov't for "creating" al Qaeda. That's nonsense, of course. I just wish the gov't would get over the whole Watergate phobia, and find a positive way to acknowledge that it does gather internal intelligence, and that we are generally safer because of such information. Wouldn't it be refreshing?
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