TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Able Danger is important, not because it existed, but because of what it found.

Able Danger found Atta connection to CIA network in Brooklyn
 

Note: this data is about 2 months old now, some of the links may no longer be active. I am pretty sure that the TownHall - Heritage link to a Weldon speech has been moved, but I do not wish to spend the time finding the new url. Also, read The Washington Post blog: Early Warning, by Arkin. He has at least three solid sensible references to Able Danger, here's one

Any clown that has secret Parisan trysts with Ghoranifar, is an absolute ass, and shouldn't be taken seriously.

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Curt Weldon has had secret meetings with Manucher Ghorbanifar and/or his agents on multiple occasions, most recently this past July. [1] These meetings were unofficial, and in violation of protocol which should have dictated his informing the Ambassador, as well as the CIA station chief before he met with these persons.

Ghorbanifar is considered by the CIA to be a prevaricator, utterly untrustworthy, and only out for personal gain. He was involved, in the Reagan Administration's giving modern weapons to Iran in their failures of paying ransom to secure the release of hostages, even though the stated policy of Reagan was to NOT negotiate with them. Ghorbanifar was the arms trader middleman, and in the first three transactions, one hostage was freed. Ghorbanifar was utilised in this fashion five times, even though he had failed CIA administered lie detectors tests before and after the transactions. The CIA has had a "burn" notice on him since before the weapons trades, because his information has so often proven to be false, and CIA operatives are banned from dealing with him. Michael Ledeen introduced Reagan's National Security Advisor, Robert McFarlane to him, and was glowingly complimentary describing him. During testimony given by McFarlane, and Oliver North in the Iran/Contra hearings, both men called Ghorbanifar a counterproductive asset. [2]

Ghorbanifar is also known to have used BCCI's services frequently, before they came crashing down. Surely you are aware of BCCI? [3]

In December, 2001, Larry Franklin (recently indicted for giving Israel classified documents), Harold Rhode(also implicated), who worked for Douglas Feith(quietly dismissed from the DOD) at the pentagon met with Ghorbanifar in Italy, along with Ledeen. This was also done without the Ambassador or the CIA station chief being informed. This caused friction and grief between the State Department, the CIA and the NeoCon Civilians at the Pentagon. Stephen Hadley, then Condoleezza Rice's chief deputy on the National Security Council was the person tasked with telling Ledeen and Feith to cease and desist the insanity. [4]

Weldon claims to have given Hadley his only copy of the Able Danger chart just after 911 [5], but gave a presentation at the NeoConservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation on 23 May, 2003, in which he displayed a large chart, claiming it showed the same evidence of 911 perpetrators. Atta was not specifically mentioned then.[6]

Lt.Col. Anthony Shaffer has admitted that he did not specifically see the Atta evidence himself. His evidence is hearsay. Shaffer also had his security clearance rescinded March 2004.[7]

Weldon's latest book frequently references an "Ali", he claimed was an ex-Iranian leader, who was really an associate of Ghorbanifar's, and who had political clout in the reign of the Shah of Iran. Bill Murray, the C.I.A. station chief in Paris, when Weldon was meeting an agent of Ghorbanifar's, obtaining information he put into a new book of his, publicly thrashed Weldon's allegations. He was supported by another former CIA agent, Reuel Marc Gerecht, who is rabidly pro war and an author often published in the National Review. [8]

Weldon response to Murray was a petty and vengeful attempt to have him investigated for revealing the identity of Ghorbanifar's agent, which Weldon claimed was classified. Murray stated that the person's identity was not classified, nor has he divulged his name, only that he is not one to be trusted. Weldon has called another Paris CIA station chief a liar. Former CIA head and founding member of Project for a New American Century, James Woolsey, defended Weldon. [9]

In July, 2005, when secretly meeting in Paris with Ghorbanifar and/or his agent, Weldon brought along House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Peter Hoekstra.[10] Lt.Col. Shaffer has stated that it was Hoekstra and House Majority leader, Dennis Hastert, who told him to go public with his Atta/Able Danger claim.[11] Hastert is himself facing a potential political career ending threat, if current quiet rumors gain mainstream attention.[12] Weldon has future political aspirations to chair the Armed Services Committee, and views his obtaining the Homeland Security Committee chair is an important step in that direction.[13] He needs powerful allies to achieve these goals. There is usually a quid pro quo relationship between allied politicians.

So to recap, Weldon isn't the brightest guy in the world, if he is meeting with Ghorbanifar without informing the CIA or the Department of State first, and is in fact acting with an authority, not rightfully his. He has shown himself to be vindictive, and desirous of holding more political power. He is closely aligned to the "neocons" in America. This is motive and opportunity to smear Hadley. The Congress presently laments the "Pentagon's" covering up of the Able Danger data, yet it is the President who is commander and Chief.

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==NOTES==
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1. Warren P. Strobel, "Lawmakers met with Iranian exile scrutinized over intelligence", Knight Ridder Newspapers, Washington DC Bureau, July 20, 2005,

2. Most of what I claim in the paragraph is backed up by the Walsh Report
on Iran Contra available online on the Federation of American Scientists' website, Iran Contra Report

3. The Kerry/Brown US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations BCCI investigation
report, also served by FAS

4. Joshua Micah Marshall, Laura Rozen, and Paul Glastris, "Iran-Contra II? - Fresh scrutiny on a rogue Pentagon operation", Washington Monthly, September 2004,

5. Curt Weldon, US House of Representatives, June 27, 2005, Congressional Record, DOCID:cr27jn05-122
also:
Brian Bennett, Timothy J. Burger and Douglas Waller, "Was Mohammed Atta Overlooked?", Time Magazine, August 14, 2005, which mentions that Weldon isn't sure that Attas name was on the chart.

6. Curt Weldon, "Breaking the Stovepipes: Improving Intelligence Sharing for Homeland Security", Heritage Foundation, May 23, 2002, (streaming media file - at about 24 minutes into the stream is where the relevant part starts, and about 33:30 min. where the chart is shown. poor resolution though, details cannot be made out, and i do not have software advanced enough to coax it out of the stream)

7. Dan Eggen, "Officer Says 2 Others Are Source of His Atta Claims", Washington Post, August 19, 2005

8. Scott Shane, "Congressman's Book Calls C.I.A. Unfit", New York Times, June 9, 2005

9. Weekly Intelligence Notes #27-05, "Weldon Wants Alleged CIA Leak Investigated"

10. See 1.

11. Shaun Waterman, UPI, "Colonel got permission to disclose pre-9/11 data", Washington Times, August 22, 2005

12. GOOGLE Search

13. Roxana Tiron, "Weldon cites Hastert nod", The Hill, August 8, 2005
 

Washington Post blog, Early Warning data

William M. Arkin, "Early Warning", Washington Post Blog

The .rdf link for those who are learning to love their rss newsreaders

Washington Post Bio

Arkin's description of Early Warning

Two Able Danger Posts:

28 September, 2005 - Disabling Able Danger

27 September, 2005 - The Secret History of Able Danger
 

The "Honorable" Weldon says the natural rights of humans born in North Koreans do not matter.

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"U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) told Penn students the United States must overlook human-rights violations in North Korea to reach an agreement on nuclear weapons.

'We despise the way you treat your citizens, your human-rights violations, but we can get beyond that, as long as you give up your nuclear weapons,' Weldon said last night, illustrating the sort of commitment he believes the United States needs to make to North Korea."

Ben Marrone, "Rep. says N. Korea must agree to disarm", Daily Pennslyvanian, November 29, 2005

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Bad Curt...No Superman Award for you.
 

Center for Cooperative Research - Curt Weldon Profile

The Army's Land Information Warfare Activity (LIWA), of which Able Danger was a part had run into links that mainland chinese immigrants were collecting technology and knowhow for the People's Republic. One main tie-in involved Stanford University at the time tha Condi Rice was Provost there as well as Clinton's Sec. Defemse W. Cohen.