Friday, Feb. 17, 2006 11:10 a.m. EST
Weldon Compares 'Able Danger' to Watergate
Representative Curt Weldon, R-Pa., compared the Pentagon's alleged
cover-up of Operation Able Danger to the Watergate scandal, during the
first open Congressional hearings on the matter Wednesday.
Weldon has alleged that Able Danger identified the hijackers involved
in the 9/11 attacks months before September 11, but were unable to
notify the proper law enforcement authorities because of a legal wall
forbidding shared intelligence.
Weldon says he received his information from whistle-blowers within the
Pentagon.
According to The Hill, Weldon issued his comparison in response to the
denials of Stephen Cambone, undersecretary of defense for intelligence.
Cambone denied Weldon's claims that Pentagon whistle-blowers were
intimated by their superiors against speaking publicly.
"How can we trivialize what these people have said?" Weldon asked.
"I do not understand," he continued. "It is frustrating to me. I am
not going to stop here. President Nixon had to resign over a third-rate
burglary," but thousands died in the September 11 attacks.
He also openly questioned both the Clinton and Bush administrations.
"Maybe," he said, neither administration wants to know what happened.
Maybe I am offending everyone."
The Hill reported that only a handful of lawmakers attended the
hearing, and most deferred their question time to Weldon.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/2/17/112106.shtml
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