What did the commission know, and when did they know it?

It turns out that the highly touted 9/11 Commission took its eye off the ball. More interested in the stories of pathological liars like RC Clark and Joey Wilson and the PC Jersey Chicks, the commission chose to ignore the story of a dozen military men who had a commission shattering story to tell. The men from Able Danger (AD) told pampered, pompous, overpaid, under worked, nit wit commission members and their equally venal staff dopes, “Yeah, we knew about Atta in 2000. We couldn’t pass it on to the FBI because commission member and then Justice Department big shot Jamie Gorelick said we could not gather such open source material on terrorists in the US legally. And if we did happen to stumble upon such information, Ms. Jamie said we couldn’t pass the info onto the FBI.” Why? “Well the Clinton administration was being investigated for Chinese money being funneled into their 1996 campaign – remember the Bob Dole line ‘Where’s the outrage?’ Well it seems that there was some nexus between President Clinton getting campaign money from the Red Chinese and the lifting of trade sanctions which allowed Loral Technologies to sell the ChiComs missile technologies which in turn allowed the ChiComs to hold our west coast at risk from ChiCom nukes. Ms. Jamie’s wall seems to have been erected to frustrate that investigation and had the unintended consequence of protecting Atta and his gang of murderers as well as the former president.”

The commission so full of itself and/or bull excrement ignored the AD men for two reasons. Every “non-partisan” commission, board, panel, committee or working group’s first responsibility is to keep the pressure off of the current political class. Why else would they exist? The political class forms these commissions to study politically hot subjects, Social Security, base closure, 9/11 to name a few that are too hot for pols to state a position on. This is a kin to parents turning over tough parenting decision to a blue ribbon panel of aunts and uncles. “Gee, mother, should we let little Jimmy pierce his tongue, cheek, lip, penis, nipple and eyelid so he’ll blend in at the Saturday night Satan worship concert?” “Oh! Dear he may hate us if we make this decision. Let’s get the blue ribbon panel of Aunt Lucy and Uncle Bill together for this one.” This is the biggest bunch of hooy. We elect pols, mostly weasels, to do a job. When the job gets too tough, the weasels do what weasels do, weasel their way out of tough conditions. The second function of these dopey commissions is to preen before the cameras in an effort to reassert their own importance. Has there ever been a single commission that was capable of going about its business in relative obscurity? The 9/11 commission was more interested in TV ratings during the RC Clark’s teary apology, for being a pretentious, clueless government bureaucrat I suppose, than they were in the fact that AD had uncovered Atta a year before he flew an airplane into the World Trade Center.

Here’s one thing that has gone even more unnoticed by the MSM than the 9/11commission’s disregard for the AD story. Remember John Poindexter? Yeah, Iran Contra fame John Poindexter. In his Iran Contra afterlife, Mr. Poindexter was appointed to head a Pentagon group that was responsible for performing the same type of work as the AD men on a much larger scale. The Libs, Dems and spineless Reps shut Mr. Poindexter’s group down – a typical government response to a group that produces results, shut it down. We can only hope that the adults in this administration moved Mr. Poindexter’s group inside some black program in the Pentagon or CIA.