Picking up the drumbeat on Able Danger and the 9/11 Commission

By Aussiegirl

No wonder I originally called the 9/11 Commission the "Omish-Commish", for all the stuff that they left out. Andrew McCarthy picks up on themes expressed here on UT the other day and takes an in-depth look in today's NRO about the entire scandal and the breathtakingly arrogant role the self-perpetuating Commission has arrogated to itself. There ought to be a commission to investigate the 9/11 Commission. Don't miss this. This story is not over no matter how hard the power that be are trying to sweep it under the rug. Those pesky bloggers and conservative journalists are on the case. God bless Cong. Weldon, without his courage and determination this entire matter would never have seen the light of day.

Andrew C. McCarthy on Able Danger on National Review Online

It’s Time To Investigate Able Danger and the 9/11 Commission
Crucial questions have gone unanswered too long.

'Tis the season when annual performance awards are handed out. If there is one for chutzpah, could there possibly be a more worthy candidate than the 9/11 commission?

It appears that this panel, an astronomically overrated study in self-absorption, is finally going away. You can never be too sure, of course. Clinging to the last fading glimmers of limelight, the august commissioners have already once overcome statutory death. Resurrecting themselves as an ombudsman through the miracle of private financing, they've been keen to morph from our high-profile raconteurs to our high-profile conscience. What they are, though, is a high-profile debacle.

How fitting that in its last not-so-official act of self-promotion, the commission has seen fit to grade out a report card on everybody else in government — even as it continues to tap dance around its own inexplicable derelictions of duty. These are most recently, but by no means exclusively, illustrated by the scandal over "Able Danger," the Defense Department's circa 1999-2001 data-mining intelligence project.

And Michael Smerconish keeps on drumming along with Louis Freeh -- what did the 9/11 Commission know -- and when did they know it?

Philly.com

WHAT DID the 9/11 Commission know and when did they know it? That's what I want somebody with subpoena power to ask about Operation Able Danger.

Or, as ex-FBI Director Louis Freeh said to me this week, "Why is the 9/11 Commission talking about hurricanes and tunnels and all these other things when it looks like they may have missed the single most important fact with respect to Sept. 11?"