Like most Americans, I tuned in this evening to listen to the President of the United States give an explanation for the OHS/FEMA malfunction following Hurricane Katrina.
Immediately following President Bush’s
speech in New Orleans, outlining his huge federal government promise of funding
“one of the largest reconstruction efforts the world has ever seen”, I went to the AP headlines to see what else was going on in the world. One article caught my eye, and its implications shook me to the core. It concerns the pre-9/11 investigation of Mohammed Atta, et al, by the Pentagon’s Special Operatives Command (SOCOM), in a covert ops sanction called
Operation Able Danger.The headline of the AP article is, Weldon: Atta Papers Destroyed on Orders. Weldon is Representative Curt Weldon, R-PA. The
article begins:
WASHINGTON (AP) --
A Pentagon employee was ordered to destroy documents that identified Mohamed Atta as a terrorist two years before the 2001 attacks, a congressman said Thursday.
The employee is prepared to testify next week before the Senate Judiciary Committee and was expected to name the person who ordered him to destroy the large volume of documents, said Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa.
Weldon declined to name the employee, citing confidentiality matters. Weldon described the documents as ''2.5 terabytes'' -- as much as one-fourth of all the printed materials in the Library of Congress, he added.
The entire article should be read, as such, and follow-ups to this headline are certain to follow. A great deal about Able Danger and Rep. Weldon’s informant and ongoing investigation has been written at both
Raw Story and
Antiwar.com. As horrifying as this may get in the vetting, the truth of where we have been and where we are headed is all we have.
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“We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know, or believe or imagine, precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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