To review the key points in my article:
In a published article, Dr. Daniele Ganser of the Zurich Polytechnic Institute has joined many others in claiming that a top-secret Pentagon project code-named ''Able Danger'' identified Mohammed Atta as a member of an al-Qaeda cell more than a year before the attacks. She then asks three good questions:
1. Did anyone in the Pentagon, or higher (such as Dick Cheney), know in advance what Atta was planning?
2. Was Atta working for, or with, someone in the Bush administration or in the Pentagon?
3. Who was really in charge of the 9-11 operation? And who might have been in charge of making sure that nothing in the planned attack went awry?
Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Shaffer, a 42-year-old native of Kansas City who worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Washington at the time of the 9/11 attacks, and had insights into the Pentagon's top secret operation, urged the FBI to arrest Atta but the Pentagon's lawyers intervened and ''protected Atta for reasons that remain unclear.''
So why was Atta protected? Why did Pentagon lawyers prevent Atta from being arrested after it was discovered that he was an al-Qaeda terrorist?
Why is no one calling for an independent investigation that will bring solid answers to all these questions?
Understand that U.S. senators from both parties accused the U.S. Defense Department of obstructing an investigation into ''Able Danger'' and the associated claims that its documents and personnel could have identified Mohammed Atta and other hijackers well before 9/11! Understand also that the Pentagon blocked several witnesses from testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Finally, understand that even a Republican senator, Arlen Spector, regarded the Able Danger assertions re: Atta to be credible, and that Democrat Joseph Biden even went so far as to accuse the Pentagon of a cover-up.
So why did the Pentagon block several witnesses from testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee? And what are the Pentagon and the Bush Administration trying to cover up? What have they got to hide?
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