Within two weeks of taking office, the Bush administration was planning a comprehensive effort of spying on Americans. A New York Times reported a lawyer for a former AT&T engineer alleged in a New Jersey federal court case the engineer took part in several discussions with agency officials about the plan. The engineer claims that AT&T sought to create a phone center that would give the NSA access to all the global phone and e-mail traffic that ran through a New Jersey network hub. The former AT&T employee spoke on condition of anonymity to the Times. Former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio was charged with insider trading and he unsuccessfully attempted to defend himself by arguing that he actually expected Qwest’s 2001 earnings to be higher because of secret NSA contracts. He declined in a February 27, 2001 meeting to give the NSA Qwest’s customer calling records. This all smacked of waiting for something to happen so they could leverage it to do what they really wanted to do – which was evidenced by the request to Quest. The 9/11 Commission left out data that Thomas A. Drake passed to them showing vital data prior to 11 Sep giving warning of an attack. Drake was a senior executive at the National Security Agency for seven years. After he tried alert his superiors and Congress to what he saw as illegal activities In a 2011 New Yorker article, journalist Jane Mayer wrote that Drake felt the NSA was committing serious crimes against the American people, on a level worse than what president Nixon had done in the 1970s. During the congressional investigations into 9/11, he testified about NSA failures.. On June 9, 2011, all ten original charges against him were dropped. Drake rejected several deals because he refused to plea bargain with the truth. He eventually pled to one misdemeanor count for exceeding authorized use of a computer. thedailysheeple/top-nsa-whistleblower-we-need-a-new-911-investigation-into-the-destruction-of-the-world-trade-center_092014#sthash.0jKy22GV.dpuf The former director of the FBI, Louis Freeh, says there was a cover up by the 9/11 Commission. Freeh recounts that military intelligence operation code-named Able Danger concluded in February 2000 that military experts had identified Mohammed Atta as an al-Qaida agent operating in the U.S. Subsequently, military officers assigned to Able Danger were prevented from sharing this critical information with FBI agents. In fact, Freeh discloses ten days before the report was released, commission staffers met with a Navy officer who said that Able Danger had identified Atta as an al-Qaida member and told the Commission the unit had identified Mohammed Atta to be a member of an al Qaeda cell located in Brooklyn. But the commission determined that the officers account was not sufficiently reliable to warrant revision of the report or further investigation. The final 9/11 Commission report, concluded that American intelligence agencies were unaware of Mr. Atta until the day of the attacks. (Sources: Crimes of the FBI-Doj, Mafia, and Al Qaeda, by Rodney Stich. newsmax/archives/articles/2005/11/17/122900.shtml historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=al_felzenberg Further, in 2004, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), “destroyed files on the Army’s computer data-mining program known as Able Danger to avoid disclosing the information”: In September of 2005, as the Senate investigation into Able Danger was underway, several Senators from both parties accused the Defense Department “of obstructing an investigation into whether a highly classified intelligence program known as Able Danger did indeed identify Mohamed Atta and other future hijackers as potential threats well before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.” This occurred after the Pentagon “blocked several witnesses from testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee at a public hearing.” The Pentagon even acknowledged that, “it had blocked several military officers and intelligence analysts from testifying at an open Congressional hearing about a highly classified intelligence program.” A Pentagon spokesman said open testimony “would not be appropriate.” The 9/11 Commission, despite testimony from LTC Schaffer and other individuals about the Able Danger program, had dismissed Able Danger as “not historically significant,” and justified leaving it out of the final report, which stated that, “American intelligence agencies were unaware of Mr. Atta until the day of the attacks.” Louis Freeh, a former FBI Director, wrote in an article in the Wall Street Journal, that this assertion by the 9/11 Commission is “embarrassingly wrong,” especially since Commission members had acknowledged in 2005 (a year after the release of the 9/11 Commission Report), that they had met with Able Danger officials who did mention they were tracking Atta prior to 9/11. A lawyer for two Pentagon whistleblowers also told the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday that the Defense Intelligence Agency last year destroyed files on the Army’s computer data-mining program known as Able Danger to avoid disclosing the information. A Pentagon inquiry into the matter found no reports linking Atta to a Brooklyn al Qaeda cell. However, investigators uncovered one report linking al Qaeda leader Mohammed Atef, to Islamists in Brooklyn. Atef was killed in Afghanistan in 2001. washingtontimes/news/2005/sep/21/20050921-102450-4688r/#ixzz3CNrBnE76
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