http://legendofpineridge.blogspot.com/2006/02/mr-smith-goes-to-washington.html

According to Congressional testimony on Wednesday, February 15, 2006, one of the Able Danger heroes may be an Indian policeman named J.D. Smith. I will try to find out more details.

I wrote about some Indian code talkers named Smith, too.

Let me know if you like it.

Ref. Item #31, when Jamie Gorelick said she did nothing wrong, I thought she was referring to the omission of ABLE DANGER in the final 9/11 Commission report. No?

Regarding the Requests for Information (RFI) that the Commission sent to OSD as a result of the Oct 2003 Shaffer interview in Afghanistan, in his opening statement Cambone says:

“That discussion (i.e., Shaffer’s interview) resulted in two subsequent Commission requests for specific Able Danger documentation in November 2003. The Department conducted document searches and provided a number of documents to the Commission in response to these requests between December 2003 – February 2004. The documents provided to the Commission included several briefings which contained nodal analysis charts or diagrams. None of those charts contained any reference to Mohammed Atta or any of the other 911 hijackers.”

It seems to me Cambone’s statement says the following:

1) that Shaffer’s interview with Zelikow resulted in two Commission RFIs, that the RFIs explicitly referenced the interview, and that they were sent in Nov 2003.

2) that the Commission’s two RFI’s asked for specific documents, to include nodal charts containing the name Mohammed Atta.

3) that the Department sent answers back to the Commission during the period Dec 2003-Feb 2004.

Somebody spot me here…isn’t this what Cambone is directly affirming (as opposed to leading us to infer)?

If so, then OSD has shot Zelikow’s “I would have remembered being told about Atta” denial full of holes.

It also reveals that OSD had the opportunity, if it so desired, to contact the Commission’s interviewee (Shaffer) to task him to locate the documents referred to in the RFI’s, since he had returned to the states in Jan 2004. But we know that wasn’t done. Why not?

In his statement, Cambone dissembles this way:

“The Department responded to all Commission requests for information. No DoD documentation on Able Danger responsive to the requests was at any time withheld from the Commission. It is true that in the course of this recent review, DoD has unearthed additional documents related to Able Danger. These documents were found with considerable effort. Some of these documents would have been responsive to the Commission’s information requests and were generally consistent with the DoD documents already provided to the Commission. None of these newly identified documents, however, add information substantively different than that provided to the Commission.”

Transcript of Rep. Curt Weldon Being Interviewed by Tony Snow on the Tony Snow Radio Program, 2/17/2006 (audio of this interview is here, HT: Free Republic):Tony Snow: To that effect he held hearings on Able Danger. Some of the hearings

“It’s a shame that as it’s going right now, we’re never going to get the full truth out about Able Danger and the reason why it was ended in 2000 and the data mining operation that was supporting it is because they did a profile of Chinese proliferation and in that profiling some very well known names in American political circles surfaced. Names in both parties. Immediately the Army was told to shut down the data mining operation.”