Intelligence Community to "investigate itself" regarding new evidence of Pre-9/11 Indifference

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5200975,00.html
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U.S. defense intelligence officials identified ringleader Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers as a likely part of an al-Qaida cell more than a year before the hijackings but didn't forward the information to law enforcement.
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the men were identified in 1999 by a classified military intelligence unit known as ``Able Danger.''
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``The 9/11 commission did not learn of any U.S. government knowledge prior to 9/11 of surveillance of Mohammed Atta or of his cell,''
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mistakes that allowed the hijackers to succeed. Among them was a failure to share intelligence
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Able Danger identified Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, Khalid al-Mihdar and Nawaf al-Hazmi as members of a cell the unit code-named ``Brooklyn''
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in September 2000 Able Danger recommended that its information on the hijackers be given to the FBI ``so they could bring that cell in and take out the terrorists.'' However, Weldon said Pentagon lawyers rejected the recommendation
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The prohibition against sharing intelligence on ``U.S. persons'' should not have applied since they were in the country on visas
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Rumsfeld said he was unaware
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Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the 9/11 Commission looked into the matter during its investigation into government missteps leading to the attacks and chose not to include it in the final report.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5200975,00.html

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1123650549811B226&set_id=
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2004 final report examining the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington contained no information suggesting that the US government knew the hijackers were operating inside the United States as early as 2000.
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[Lee Hamilton, the commission's former vice chairman] insists he personally told September 11 commission staff members about Atta in Afghanistan, and offered to supply them with documents upon his return to the United States, only to be rebuffed.
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panel's former staff [will] review internal memos and other documents to make sure information about Atta was not overlooked.
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"We will know by the end of the week whether we missed something," Felzenberg said.
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"Able Danger", now disbanded, was a small classified military operation engaged in data-mining analysis of "open source" information, including media reports and public records through the use of massively powerful computer systems.
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government lawyers advised the military's Special Operations Command, which oversaw "Able Danger", not to forward the information apparently because the four were in the United States legally on visas
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Weldon said he may ask for a formal inquiry into the issue after Congress returns from its August recess
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Things to Do: encourage Congress to look into this Pre-9/11 indifference, along with ROVE/PLAME/TRAITORGATE and along with the DOWNING STREET MEMO.

Watergate was NOTHING compared to this.