Pentagon Pushes to Hide 9/11 Mistakes

Senator Specter’s Communications Director says that no decision on whether to classify the hearings or not has been made and that discussions with the Defense Department continue. Speaking on behalf of Rep. Weldon, Communications Director John Tomaszewski said the Congressman “would be disappointed” if Pentagon pressure led to the closing of the hearings. “We all want to get to the bottom of this,” Tomaszewski told me. “We need to bring these issues before the public, not to hide them.“

Will the press and the public be excluded from this week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings concerning a once-secret military intelligence unit called “Able Danger” that identified four of the 9/11 hijackers in 2000?

Yes, if the Pentagon has its way. According to Fox News, military officials have been exerting pressure to close the hearings for at least a week. But Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Penn., is said to be resisting their request to classify the “intelligence information sharing” hearings, expected to feature testimony from several Pentagon sources.

Why should you care? In addition to the fact that members of the once clandestine intelligence unit say they identified Mohammed Atta and three other 9/11 hijackers as threats a year before the attacks, former Able Danger analysts also claim that they tried to turn the information over to the FBI — but were repeatedly ignored.

Although Pentagon officials originally cast doubt on Able Danger’s very existence, they now confirm that five former members of the unit remember Atta’s picture or name being on a chart in 2000.

Rep. Curt Weldon — a Republican from Pennsylvania — has been pushing the issue for weeks. Now he appears to have succeeded in persuading Congress to look into what…

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