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To: TideGlider who wrote (70925)	11/24/2005 4:59:32 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Freeh, Able Danger, Gorton, Roemer REDSTATE.ORG ^ \| Nov 24th, 2005 \| By: John Batchelor Former FBI Director Louis Freeh did not learn of Able Danger until the summer of 2005. Commenting on the Wall Street Journal op-ed that he published Wednesday November 17, Louis Freeh told me tonight that he and his commanders had no knowledge of the facts of the Special Operations Command's data-mining program, code-named Able Danger, before the remarks by Shaffer and Phillpot in the media and eventually before Senators Specter's Judiciary Committee. More, Louis Freeh, now a private attorney for MBNA, said that since the Able Danger revelation no one at the 9-11 Commission has called him to update the record with regard the now bluntly incomplete final report of the 9-11 Commission July 24, 2004, which declared that, "American intelligence agencies were unaware of Mr. Atta until the day of the attacks." Louis Freeh also said that he is certain the FBI command did not have independently the Able Danger data point that Mohammed Atta was in operation in Brooklyn, New York in January-February 2002. Freeh was adamant that if the FBI had known, then there was a high likelihood it could have prevented 9-11. In a letter to the Wall Street Journal, Monday November 21, 9-11 Commissioners Slade Gorton and Timothy Roemer wrote that Shaffer and Philpot in testimony to the Commission staff in the summer of 2004 did not provide documents to substantiate the tale of Able Danger identifying Mohammed Atta before September 2001 and therefore the Commission is correct in dismissing their stories. Gorton and Roemer dismissed Louis Freeh's op-ed as equally unproved with the strangely ungenerous, "You are entitled to your own opinion but not to your own facts.” Freeh's response tonight to Gorton and Roemer was that this letter treats the honorable military officers Shaffer and Phillpot the same as liars. Freeh observed that Gorton and Roemer complain about the lack of documents to support Shaffer and Phillpott; however Freeh reasoned that you do not ignore witnesses only because you do not yet have documents to corroborate their testimony. Freeh also puzzled why only two commissioners and not all of them signed this letter protesting his questions on Able Danger. And Freeh said that Gorton and Roemer mentioning that the investigation was continuing with the Senate Select Intelligence Committee was the first he had heard of it; and that he had yet to be called to testify or contribute. In all, Freeh supported the notion that there must be a fresh, tireless, data-mining savvy investigation as to why Able Danger did not reach the FBI in 2001 and whether the problem in 2001 continues today at the Department of Defense and the FBI. More, not until we have confirmed or refuted the Shaffer and Phillpot and others report of Atta in Brooklyn in January-February 2000 can we have confidence that the 9-11 Commission report has accurate conclusions.