Washington, D.C.--Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, will hold a second hearing on Operation Able Danger on October 5, 2005.First reported by KLo. at the Corner.
In the initial hearing held on September 21, 2005, the Department of Defense refused to produce five key witnesses relating to the identification of 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta. The Department of Defense has now changed their position and will make the witnesses available in a public hearing. The Committee will focus on obtaining corroborating evidence as to what occurred with the pre-9/11 charts and information which were allegedly destroyed by order of DoD personnel.
AJ Strata has much more. Among the issues being covered in the blogosphere is the possibility that Able Danger was tracking Atta in the many permutations of his name's spelling (transliteration from Arabic is imprecise at best). Also, the political machinations behind the hearings and why the Pentagon would pull its permission for the employees to testify and do a 360 only a few days later. It is possible that Specter gave the Pentagon some groundrules over what the Committee would cover. Or, the Pentagon has decided that the subject matter will not touch on classified information.
Stay tuned.
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