Action Alert: Congress is on the brink of exposing 9/11--call your reps NOW!
This could be the moment we've been waiting for. 245 Senators and Reps have signed Curt Weldon's letter demanding that Able Danger whistleblowers testify before Congress. Able Danger, you may remember, was the military intelligence project that identified as terrorists, and tracked, Mohammad Atta & Co. in 2000, but was quickly gagged. Able Danger officers were told to forget they'd ever heard of Atta; and when whistleblower Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer went public this year, he was harassed and had his clearance revoked.
Key congresspeople are pleading with you to write them and give them the groundswell of support they need to investigate Able Danger. See below for details.
And don't forget to call in to National Public Radio tomorrow! Soft-pedal your topic to get past the screeners...then play hardball when you're live on the air.
Monday, December 5th, 1:00 PM Midwest Time - - - Talk of the Nation (check your local NPR station schedule for exact time)
When the Nine-Eleven Commission officially ended, its members decided there was more work to do. They stayed together for one more year to see what happened to their recommendations to keep America safe. After one, on Talk of the Nation, Nine-Eleven Commission Co-Chairs Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton share their final report card with Neal Conan.
From Jim at Colorado 9/11 Truth:
How Can You Help Uncover Operation Able Danger and Expose the Truth of 9-11?
(pass on far and wide)
Congressman Weldon is calling on all Members of Congress to sign a letter he is sending to Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld requesting that members of Able Danger be allowed to testify before Congress and the American people.
The Pentagon has prevented members of the Able Danger effort from testifying in an open hearing. Able Danger dealt with open-sourced, unclassified information, and their story should be told to the American people.
There are currently 245 signatures on this letter balanced between Republicans and Democrats, including senior leadership. Urge your representative, if he/she hasn't, to sign this letter TODAY!
See signatures below.
I Talked to Spectors staffer on the Judicial Committee and asked him for some advice as to moving this forward. He suggested to have people call their Senators and urge them to start a similar letter to Rumsfeld. So.......call your Senators, write, fax, email and ask them to get this hearing going and start a Senate letter! All testimony in the House or Senate is basically assumed under oath. And Rummy knows it.
Call the Pentagon and leave a message with Donny boy.....Remember, you pay his salary!!!! He craps sitting down too. He puts his pants on one leg at a time.... You own him!!!! Tell him to let Schaffer and Philpott and Smith and Preisser testify. The time is now to be BOLD! As bold and brazen as they were for taking us into endless war and endless spending! As bold and brazen as they were for shutting down Sibel Edmonds! For murdering 2100 soldiers. For murdering over 100,000 Iraqi civilians. And as all the evidence is showing us, complicit in 9-11.
DOD info line 703-545-6700 Press 1, ask for or spell Rumsfeld
Ask him why he's destroying evidence. Tell him to un-gag Schaffer, Phillpott and the others.
http://www.senate.gov/general/contac...nators_cfm.cfm
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.shtml
Or call the switchboard for the Senate and House and ask to be connected. 202-224-3121
Write to Newspapers.
http://www.usnpl.com/ - U.S. Newspapers
http://www.usnpl.com/conews.html - Colorado newspapers
Call or write to Weldon and Spector, tell them you support them. Ask for Russ Caso, the staffer for Weldon who is handling this issue. Ask for Barr, the staffer for Spectors Judiciary Committee. (he wouldn't give me his last name.)
Weldons Address, Phone, Fax, Email
2466 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: (202) 225-2011
Fax: (202) 225-8137
CurtPa07@Mail.House.Gov
Able Danger News on Weldons site:
http://curtweldon.house.gov/News/Doc...atagoryID=1932
Arlen Spector:
Main Office:
711 Hart Building
Washington, DC 20510
Tel: 202-224-4254
http://specter.senate.gov/index.cfm?...ntactInfo.Home
Talking Points:
1. If the 9-11 commissioners believe that Able Danger was so insignificant, why won't they push for the Pentagon to cooperate in the hearings?
2. Why is Rumsfeld obstructing these hearings? Is he afraid of what will be exposed by these whistle blowers, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, Navy Capt. Scott Phillpott, and civilian analyst James D. Smithn who have been gagged? (Dr. Eileen Preisser has not come forward yet but should be subpeoned.)
3. Why, if the Pentagon is interested in the truth of 9-11 and is not concerned that Able Danger was significant, are they destroying evidence? Isn't that illegal? Yes! They must file forms before destroying classified info and so far haven't produced those forms to Weldon.
4. How is it that Rumsfeld can tell the Armed Services Committee and the Judiciary Committee that these people cannot testify? Can't these committees subpoena these people, over-riding this inept Defense Secretary? The Congress oversees the DOD!
5. This is a matter of huge significance for the public who were counting on the 9-11 commission to report all the facts, now found to be guilty of omitting important evidence that these hijackers were known of years before!
The absolute best source to understand Able Danger and it's significance
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/t.../11=ableDanger
Does Able Danger implicate the Pentagon? Were Atta, Honjour and others merely dupes, being controlled by a rouge cabal in our Military and Intelligence, in a larger plan by PNAC to take the U.S. into an un-needed aggressive war? Why then is it reported that 5 and possibly more of the supposed hijackers were found to be alive and well? No proof of any of these hijackers on flight passenger logs or seen in boardingvideo. No DNA recovered from the crash sites. No black box recordings released. No reconstruction of wreckage or crash investigation reports from NTSB for flights 77 and 93, as is normal procedure. All videos of the Pentagon area, confiscated immediately by the FBI. Complete preposterous failure of our standard hijacking intercept procedures, followed flawlessly 100's of times a year and never requiring Sec. of Defense or Presidential permission to intercept. STANDARD PROCEDURE. Yes, to shoot down took an order by many high ranking Generals up to the President but only until June 01, That's when Rumsfeld had a Joint Chiefs order changed to require that only he or the President or Vice President could order shoot down. Complete failure of the anti-aircraft gun batteries around the Pentagons restricted air space. Rumsfeld, knowing flight 77 is bearing down on D.C. fails to evacuate the Pentagon. All the flight school records gathered and flown out of Venice FL. just days after 9-11 by Jeb Bush. It just goes on and on and on.... coincidence or complicity? No reprimands, dismissals or demotions! Only promotions and huge increases in budgets!
MORE THAN HALF OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WANTS OPEN HEARINGS ON ABLE DANGER
WASHINGTON, Nov 18 - U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), vice chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security Committees, has sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld signed by over half of the House of Representatives requesting that he allow "former participants in the intelligence program known as ABLE DANGER to testify in an open hearing before the United States Congress." The letter has 246 signatures (144 Republicans, 101 Democrats, and one Independent), including senior members and leadership on both sides of the isle.
"The full story of ABLE DANGER deserves to be heard by the American people," said Weldon. "Secretary Rumsfeld must understand that the will of Congress is behind allowing members of the ABLE DANGER effort to testify in an open hearing about the work they were doing prior to 9-11 to track the linkages and relationships of al-Qaeda worldwide.
--- A FULL-TEXT VERSION OF THE LETTER & LIST OF SIGNATORIES IS BELOW ---
The Honorable Donald Rumsfeld
Secretary
Department of Defense
Pentagon
Washington, DC 20301
Dear Secretary Rumsfeld:
We the undersigned are formally requesting that you allow former participants in the intelligence program known as ABLE DANGER to testify in an open hearing before the United States Congress. Until this point, congressional efforts to investigate ABLE DANGER have been obstructed by Department of Defense insistence that certain individuals with knowledge of ABLE DANGER be prevented from freely and frankly testifying in an open hearing. We realize that you do not question Congress’s authority to maintain effective oversight of executive branch agencies, including your department. It is our understanding that your objection instead derives from concern that classified information could be improperly exposed in an open hearing. We of course would never support any activity that might compromise sensitive information involving national security. However, we firmly believe that testimony from the appropriate individuals in an open hearing on ABLE DANGER would not only fail to jeopardize national security, but would in fact enhance it over the long term. This is due to our abiding belief that America can only better prepare itself against future attacks if it understands the full scope of its past failures to do so.
On September 21, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary conducted a hearing on ABLE DANGER which Bill Dugan, Acting Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Oversight, certified did not reveal any classified information. Congressman Curt Weldon’s testimony at that hearing was largely based on the information that has been given to him by ABLE DANGER participants barred from open testimony by DOD. Their testimony would therefore closely mirror that of Congressman Weldon, who did not reveal classified information. Therefore we are at a loss as to how the testimony of ABLE DANGER participants would jeopardize classified information. Much of what they would present has already been revealed. Further refusal to allow ABLE DANGER participants to testify in an open congressional hearing can only lead us to conclude that the Department of Defense is uncomfortable with the prospect of Members of Congress questioning these individuals about the circumstances surrounding ABLE DANGER. This would suggest not a concern for national security, but rather an attempt to prevent potentially embarrassing facts from coming to light. Such a consideration would of course be an unacceptable justification for the refusal of a congressional request.
