Axelrod: No evidence that Sestak is telling the truth

Congressman Curt Weldon issued a response to the 9/11 Commission[18] clarifying the mission of Able Danger, expressing concern over the statements made by various members of the 9/11 Commission, and promising to push forward until it is understood why the DoD was unable to pass the information uncovered by Able Danger to the FBI, and why the 9/11 Commission failed to follow up on the information they were given on Able Danger.
The 9/11 Commission has released multiple statements over the past week, each of which has significantly changed – from initially denying ever being briefed to acknowledging being briefed on both operation ABLE DANGER and Mohammed Atta. The information was omitted primarily because they found it to be suspect despite having been briefed on it two times by two different military officers on active duty. Additionally, the 9/11 Commission also received documents from the Department of Defense on ABLE DANGER.[18]
Congressman Weldon reiterated these statements in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 21, 2005.[19]
[edit]Able Danger data destroyed
In his book Countdown to Terror Weldon asserted that an Able Danger chart produced in 1999 identifying 9/11 hijackers Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi had been presented to then-Deputy National Security Advisor Jim Steinberg. Weldon went on to claim that he had personally presented the chart to then-Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley in 2001, days after the 9/11 attacks.[20]
He later stated that he was no longer sure that Atta’s name appeared on that document.[21]
Congressman Peter Hoekstra, who was then chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, investigated the matter at Weldon’s request, was reported to have cautioned against “hyperventilating” before the completion of a “thorough” probe. Pentagon officials said they were unaware that any Able Danger material named Atta. They declined to comment on the reports as they worked to clarify the matter.[21]
On August 14, 2005, Mike Kelly, a columnist for The (Bergen) Record (New Jersey), described a telephone interview, arranged by the staff of Rep. Curt Weldon, with a man who identified himself as a member of the Able Danger team, but asked that his name not be revealed. In the interview, the man claimed his team had identified Mohamed Atta and three other 9/11 hijackers as likely Al-Qaeda terrorists operating in the United States, but were prevented from passing this information on to the FBI by government lawyers. He also claimed he was ignored by the 9/11 Commission’s staff when he approached them on two occasions to explain Able Danger’s work.[22]
On September 15, 2005, Weldon asserted that he had identified an employee who had been ordered to destroy the 2.5 terabytes (TB) of data collected by Able Danger two years before the 9/11 attack.[23]

The Clinton machine set up Sestak to defeat Weldon. Read this again:

“That looks to me as it may be obstruction of the committee’s activities,” Specter, R-Pennsylvania, said at the start of his committee’s hearing into the unit code-named Able Danger.
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And now Sestak is trying to do serious harm to the Obama administration.

I kinda see a pattern here.

funky chicken on May 25, 2010 at 10:52 AM

saiga on May 25, 2010 at 11:01 AM

Wesley Clark is more popular with his former underlings than Joe Sestak. And they call Wesley Clark The Prince of Darkness over at Blackfive.

Just because a guy made a successful military career doesn’t mean crap. Especially if they were Clintonites.

Google Merrill “Tony” McPeak for the USAF version.

funky chicken on May 25, 2010 at 11:05 AM

Sestak hit piece here:
http://www.militarycorruption.com/mullen.htm

Yes, likely biased, but still a fun read. And a look at how Clinton holdovers screwed up the Bush Administration via the cozy relationships they had established with long time beltway guys like Rumsfeld.

funky chicken on May 25, 2010 at 11:13 AM

When Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.), the Navy admiral-turned-congressman, defeated 30-year incumbent Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senate primary Tuesday night, it was the second time in his short political career that he had knocked out a better-known incumbent. Four years earlier, Sestak bested Rep. Curt Weldon, beating the Republican incumbent by nearly 13 points to take the seat representing Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional district in Congress.

In his three years on Capitol Hill, Sestak has offset his 31-year military career with an aggressively liberal voting record, supporting the Democratic House leadership on most votes and endorsing nearly all of the White House’s top priorities. Sestak voted for President Obama’s health care bill, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and the energy bill that included a cap-and-trade mechanism to reduce carbon emissions. He also established himself as pro-choice, with a 100 percent rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America, pro-gun control, and pro-labor, sponsoring the Employee Free Choice Act.

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/18/joe-sestak-from-navy-admiral-to-dragon-slayer/

Sestak also served in the Clinton White House as the Director for Defense Policy on the National Security Council.

funky chicken on May 25, 2010 at 11:17 AM

Oh yes, it’s red on red action, for sure. It will hurt the Obama administration, and it will (please, please, please) lose the election for Sestak.

Conservatives can help Sestak lose by using this dustup to get the word out about what a POS he is. It’s an opportunity they shouldn’t pass up in their eagerness to attack the Obama administration.

The last thing we need to see is conservatives making Sestak into some kind of great, honest guy.

funky chicken on May 25, 2010 at 11:33 AM

Seriously guys, Sestak’s slime, and deep into the Clinton machine.

He’s not somebody conservatives need to champion, or treat kindly. The focus needs to be on making sure Toomey beats the guy to an electoral pulp in November.

The Clintons are more popular in PA than the Obamites, and Sestak probably sees this as a good way to get PA democrats to support him. He’s every bit as bad as Obama and Axelrod, and possibly worse in that he very well may have been instrumental in serious Clinton admin CYA.

Think USS Cole, think Able Danger, and potentially lots of other stuff.

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/18/joe-sestak-from-navy-admiral-to-dragon-slayer/

Sestak also served in the Clinton White House as the Director for Defense Policy on the National Security Council.

funky chicken on May 25, 2010 at 11:55 AM