Representative Curt Weldon Takes Part In A Town Hall Meeting - Audio Inside

Representative Curt Weldon Takes Part In A Town Hall Meeting
Talks about 9/11 Truth, And Is Confronted By Me

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4/1/2006

This is only a very small portion of the talk Rep. Weldon gave today. This guy is for real folks. I believe in his sincerity. He went into GREAT detail about Able Danger, and the people were very interested in what he had to say.

Some of you may be wondering how this meeting came about. A very brave man by the name of Dave Slesinger met a friend of Curt Weldon's. This friend agreed to meet with 9/11 Family Member Bob McIlvaine, Dave Slesinger, and myself to discuss the events of 9/11 in the hopes that we would convince him to convince Rep. Weldon to meet with us.

It worked.

The friend of Rep. Weldon invited us to this Town Hall meeting so we would have the chance to speak with him. This clip consists of Dave Slesinger's question, and mine. You'll see I had a few things to say.

I had the privilege of meeting Lt. Colonel Anthony Shaffer today. He is also very real.

Just so you know, Rep. Weldon invited me to lunch, and knew who I was (the guy who dropped off 4 books, and 2 movies to his office).

He does seem to be sincere. I think he needs the backing of the people to take this all of the way.

Fantastic.... The train is rolling down the tracks!

Full Transcript

The questions were read by the same person on 3x5 cards.

Dave Slesinger: First, I want to praise you for your Able Danger efforts. Since you are the Congressman most sympathetic to firefighters, have you looked at the quotes from NYC firefighters at the World Trade Center on 9/11 about explosives. If you have, will you accept information on for later comment.

Rep. Weldon: I will absolutely accept information, and I'm very close to the NYC firefighters because one of my best friends was killed there. You see I go on all of the disasters because of my leadership on fire and (inaudible) issues, I've been to all of them. Hurricane Andrew, Hugo, I was in Katrina two days after it happened, in fact, I raised $440,000 from private companies in our region to help the fire departments down there which we gave them about a month ago in Upper Darby. Uh, I was at the World Trade Center in 1993, when the fire commissioner at the time, Howard Safer (sp?) assigned a young officer to take me through the bombed out parking garage. That young officer's name was Ray Downey. Ray and I became good friends. It was Ray who convinced me to introduce legislation to create a commission to look at ways that our military could assist in preparing for the next attack. That commission became known as the Gilmore Commission. On 9/11, Ray was killed. Ray was the chief of all rescue for the NYC fire department. He was the guy who oversaw the largest and most successful rescue in the history of manking. They brought 70,000 people out of the trade center complex. 3000 died. Ray Downey was an American Hero. In fact, you might remember I brought Ray's family, his widow and five kids down to the county a month after 9/11. We had a parade, we honored Ray as an American Hero in (inaudible) Park, and I continue to interact with Ray. Ray was the guy who oversaw the 343 firefighters that were killed.

I talk to the fire department on a regular basis. When the Republican convention was held in New York in 2004, I went up a day early, I went down to the fire department headquarters. I spent the day with them. And when I finished the briefings, and getting their input, as to what happened on 9/11, which I had ongoing, I went up and spent two hours running with Engine 54 (inaudible) in midtown Manhattan. And I wanted to do that because on 9/11 all 15 firefighters on duty from that station were killed. And I wanted the firefighters to give me their views without going through any chiefs or other officers about what happened.

Now, there's a lot of theorists out there about what occurred. And uh, I haven't gone into the structural elements of the building. The fact that there are reports on multiple explosions on other floors... I am open to that information. I'm willing to challenge the system. And uh, and don't automatically discount anything that's told to me because I've seen, I've seen too much. I mean, ya know, I hate to say that sometimes I don't trust my Government, but sometimes, I don't trust the Government. The bureaucracy. Ya know the best evidence of that is we had the, uh, Tillman, the football player. Joined the army, he was killed. We now find out that the army burned his clothing. So the family never got to get the real story about how Pat Tillman died. Now if it was an accident, so be it. You don't hide that information because somebody is going to be embarrassed.

That's the whole story with Tony Shaffer. It's the bureaucrats trying to hide information and facts, so they're not embarrassed. So, do I automatically accept what the Government tells me? No. And that's why I get myself in trouble. I challenge the CIA, I challenge the DIA. I'll challenge our Defense Department. That's why you send me there. If you want somebody to go there, and just go along, you would send a robot. That would vote the way the party wanted, and would go along with the current President. I won't do that. So I'm absolutely open to any information anyone has that challenges anything about the 9/11 Commission or the work there.

Dave Slesinger speaks up: Congressman, that was my question, I, uh, wanna give out, anybody who wants this, this is a speech by a physics professor at BYU, Steven Jones.

Rep. Weldon: Yea.

Dave Slesinger: It's the hottest thing happening on the 9/11 issue. In his speech, he praises Congressman Weldon, he's a conservative Republican, he praises Reagan, he quotes St. Paul. I think I have enough for everybody. Just ask me.

Rep. Weldon: It'll open your eyes, because his allegations are pretty strong.

Jon Gold: Why did the Bush Administration try to limit the scope of the 9/11 Congressional Inquiry?

Rep. Weldon: It wasn't just the 9/11 Commission. They didn't do it on their own. The 9/11 Commission...

Jon Gold speaks up: No no... I'm sorry, the question was... They, uh, Bush went to Tom Daschle privately to discuss limiting the scope (Rep. Weldon: Oh, limiting the scope...) of the 9/11 Congressional Inquiry, not the 9/11 Commission.

Rep. Weldon: Yea, Congressional. And And... ya know, I... since I've been involved in the Able Danger battle, I've been bucking up against both this Administration and the previous Administration. And I'm a loyal Republican, I'm a independent Republican, and stand up for what I believe, but I am a Republican because I believe that bigger Government is not the answer to the problems that we have.

Jon Gold: Also... I'm sorry, also they fought against the creation, they fought against the family members...

Rep. Weldon: For the creation of the 9/11 commission. But as you all know the 9/11 family members, even though they're split, have come out publicly now, and challenged the 9/11 Commission itself, and their findings.

Jon Gold: Absolutely.

Rep. Weldon: What I think happened here, if I give it to you in a nutshell... I think people from both Administrations decided that they didn't want the 9/11 Commission to embarrass either Administration, and because 9/11 happened 9 months after a new President came in, they got together, and said, "let's limit the scope, and let's not go certain places where..." cause there's blame that could go on the Clinton Administration, cause it happened, in the run up happened there, and there's blame that happened in the (inaudible).

Jon Gold: I, I completely agree with you, but 9/11 was the catalyst for everything that's happened since then. The Iraq War, the Afghanistan War, the Patriot Act, everything... and it... to me, it makes sense that we need to investigate it because it wasn't investigated.

Rep. Weldon: And that's exactly right, and I..I.. I will tell ya this, I had to get 247 of my colleagues to sign a letter asking for...

Jon Gold: Yes, and I congratulate you (inaudible)...

Rep Weldon: ...hearings to push the Secretary of Defense to let us have Tony Shaffer who sat in the first hearing in the Senate, Arlen Specter wanted him to testify and the Pentagon said no. He can sit there, but he can't speak. Am I right Tony?

Tony Shaffer: Absolutely sir.

Jon Gold: Well, they did the same thing to Sibel Edmonds...

Rep. Weldon: Yea, I met Sibel...

Jon Gold: And Sibel Edmonds said, that once this issue gets to be investigated, 9/11, there will be certain American people facing uh... prosecution, criminally.

Rep. Weldon: Well, I guess in the end what we have to understand is what I used to tell my kids when I taught school in (inaudible) they would say, "Well Mr. Weldon, ya know... you're telling us all of these great things about Democracy and our system of a representative Government, wait a minute, we have poverty, we have racial prejudice, we have unemployment...", and well, nobody ever said it was perfect. There are no perfect Governments in the world. They don't exist except in text books. But our system is the most responsible on the face of the earth because the people, in the end, can control what happens. Richard Nixon resigned. He was the most powerful man in America. Because he covered up a third rate burglarly. The system works, but it only works when the people are involved. And when the people challenge what's going on... and when you don't challenge... it's like when I go out and speak to groups, and I say, ya know "How many of you are not registered to vote?", and (inaudible).. well then, you have no right to talk to me, because you're the problem. I don't care whether you're Democrat, Republican, or Independent, you have to be involved. And if you're not going to be involved then you're the reason why the Government gets weak, and you're the reason why bureaucracy becomes out of control. And while people are able to do things that none of us would accept if we knew what were going on. I mean, the Pat Tillman case, it's outrageous that a family would not know how their loved one was killed, and we would try to cover that up to protect somebody's career in the military, that's wrong. And the same thing with 9/11 only to a greater extent because it was the single largest attack against our country in the history of America. Far bigger than Pearl Harbor in terms of deaths...

Jon Gold: But it's been used...

Rep. Weldon: It's been used by people in both parties... Lemme finish here, I'll take one question, then I gotta run.

On February 16, 2006, just after the Able Danger hearing, I sent Congressman Weldon the following letter:

Dear Congressman Weldon,

I really want to thank you for holding the hearing
yesterday on the ABLE DANGER project and allowing Lt.
Col. Shaffer and others to testify about this project.
I particularly was interested in the following passage
from his written testimony:

"(U) During my first meeting with Congressman Weldon I
was asked some questions about what became of the
overall ABLE DANGER effort – he had heard some details
from Capt Phillpott in ther first meeting (that
preceded my meeting with the Congressman by several
days) – he asked me to provide my details – which I
did. I gave him the same basic SECRET level briefing I
had given the 9/11 Commisssion in Oct of 2003 at
Bagram, AFG. During the briefing, Congressman Weldon
asked Russ Caso, his chief of staff, to call the 9/11
commission and find out if they (the 9/11 commission)
had ever heard of ABLE DANGER. Mr. Caso left the room
and called Chris Cojm at the 9/11 Discourse Project
and asked him if they had ever "heard of something
called ABLE DANGER". Chris quickly checked and told
Russ "Yes - we heard of it" - Russ then asked him why
they did not put it in their final report - Cojm's
answer was this "It did not fit with the story we
wanted to tell". Russ came back in and told
Congressman Weldon and me of the comment. Both
Congressman Weldon and I could not hide our astonished
looks at hearing the news. This was the beginning of
the investigation as to why ABLE DANGER information
was not examined or included in the 9/11 report that
has brought us to where we are today."

[From: "ABLE DANGER and the 9/11 Attacks." Prepared
Statement of Anthony A. Shaffer, Lt Col, US Army
Reserve, Senior Intelligence Officer, before the House
Armed Services Committee (HASC), Congress of the
United States, Wednesday, February 15, 2006, pp.
41-42.]

If in fact the ABLE DANGER information "did not fit
with the story we wanted to tell," what other
information available to the 9/11 Commission was
ignored, suppressed or distorted for the same reason?

Attached is the list of omissions and claims of the
9/11 Commission that David Ray Griffin, in his
critique of the 9/11 Commission Report, portrayed as
"lies." I hope that you will expand your investigation
to determine how many of these omissions and claims
also were made because they "did not fit with the
story we wanted to tell."

From my limited research on this subject, I believe
that the actions of the Commission and of the Defense
Department in regard to Lt. Col. Shaffer are part of a
massive cover-up of what really happened on 9/11. In
the interests of providing truth to the American
people, I do hope that you will do your utmost to
pursue these matters "wherever they lead."


I included the 115 point list of "lies" from David Ray Griffin, so he should have been aware of them at that point.

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I never read this before. It was a good read.