As tends to happen with events of biblical proportions such as the sinking of New Orleans, much other news gets pushed out while under cover of the bigger story.
As of today, the Pentagon has admitted that they can't discredit the "Able Danger" report that 9/11 terrorist ringleader Mohammed Atta was identified long before 9/11 as an Al Qaeda operative and was never taken in because of weak arguments about spying on people with green cards. ????!!!!
Take a look.
And it's far more important to spy on their political opponents.
Sad. And discussing $20 medicare plans is more important than Bush getting his ass down to Louisiana to pressure people to get the job done. Utter incompetence.
I expect we'll see the Abu Graib photos in a couple of days too.
This one's my favorite:
Chope said there is no evidence that military lawyers blocked the sharing of Able Danger information with the FBI.
This one's disturbing too:
Pentagon officials said Thursday they have found three more people who recall an intelligence chart that identified Sept. 11 mastermind Mohamed Atta as a terrorist one year before the attacks on New York and Washington. But they have been unable to find the chart or other evidence that it existed.
And:
"To date, we have not identified the chart," said Pat Downs, a senior policy analyst in the office of the undersecretary of defense for intelligence. "We have identified a similar chart but it does not contain the photo of Mohamed Atta or a reference to him or a reference to the other (9/11) hijackers."