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To: JohnM who wrote (132159)8/13/2005 8:42:30 AM
From: John Carragher  Read Replies (1) of 793810
 
9/11 PANEL: ATTA TALE WAS BUM TIP

By DEBORAH ORIN Washington Bureau Chief

August 13, 2005 -- The 9/11 commission yesterday defended its decision to ignore a Navy officer's report that military spies targeted lead hijacker Mohamed Atta more than a year before the attacks — and claimed the Navy man wasn't "sufficiently credible."
The statement from commission chiefs Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton came after a flip-flop, in which the panel's staff first denied and then admitted it was told Pentagon spies had linked Atta to an al Qaeda cell in New York in 2000.

That revelation touched off a firestorm because the Navy officer reportedly said military spies in the top-secret Able Danger program were barred from telling the FBI of their finding — a move that might have caught Atta.

"The [Navy officer] had no documentary evidence and said he had only seen the document briefly some years earlier. He could not describe what information had led to this supposed Atta identification," the commission said.

"The commission's staff concluded that the officer's account was not sufficiently reliable to warrant revision of the report or further investigation."

A skeptical Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) said the statement does nothing to answer why the Able Danger warning wasn't passed on to the FBI.

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