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モハメッドアッタのテロリスト情報の書類を９１１テロ以前にペンタゴンの上司によって廃棄処分するよう命令された人間の証人喚問が今週水曜日、米国上院委員会Senate Judiciary Committeeにて始まります。下院での現在進行中のダウニングストリートメモに関するヒアリングとともに大事なヒアリングです。
http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearing.cfm?id=1606
SEPTEMBER 21, 2005
"Able Danger and Intelligence Information Sharing "
Senate Judiciary Committee
Full Committee
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DATE: September 21, 2005
TIME: 09:30 AM
ROOM: 226 Dirksen
OFFICIAL HEARING NOTICE / WITNESS LIST:
September 8, 2005
NOTICE OF COMMITTEE HEARING
RESCHEDULED -- Wed., September 21, 2005 at 9:30 a.m.
The hearing on “Able Danger and Intelligence Information Sharing” scheduled by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary for Wednesday, September 14, 2005 at 9:30 a.m. in Room 226 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building has been rescheduled to take place on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 at 9:30 a.m
関連記事：ワシントンポストより。
Weldon: Atta Papers Destroyed on Orders
By DONNA DE LA CRUZ
The Associated Press
Thursday, September 15, 2005; 11:27 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/15/AR2005091501860_pf.html
WASHINGTON -- A Pentagon employee was ordered to destroy documents that identified Mohamed Atta as a terrorist two years before the 2001 attacks, a congressman said Thursday.
The employee is prepared to testify next week before the Senate Judiciary Committee and was expected to identify the person who ordered him to destroy the large volume of documents, said Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa.
Weldon declined to identify the employee, citing confidentiality matters. Weldon described the documents as "2.5 terabytes" _ as much as one-fourth of all the printed materials in the Library of Congress, he added.
A Senate Judiciary Committee aide said the witnesses for Wednesday hearing had not been finalized and could not confirm Weldon's comments.
Army Maj. Paul Swiergosz, a Pentagon spokesman, said officials have been "fact-finding in earnest for quite some time."
"We've interviewed 80 people involved with Able Danger, combed through hundreds of thousands of documents and millions of e-mails and have still found no documentation of Mohamed Atta," Swiergosz said.
He added that certain data had to be destroyed in accordance with existing regulations regarding "intelligence data on U.S. persons."
Weldon has said that Atta, the mastermind of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and three other hijackers were identified in 1999 by a classified military intelligence unit known as "Able Danger," which determined they could be members of an al-Qaida cell.
On Wednesday, former members of the Sept. 11 commission dismissed the "Able Danger" assertions. One commissioner, ex-Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash., said, "Bluntly, it just didn't happen and that's the conclusion of all 10 of us."
Weldon responded angrily to Gorton's assertions.
"It's absolutely unbelievable that a commission would say this program just didn't exist," Weldon said Thursday.
Pentagon officials said this month they had found three more people who recall an intelligence chart identifying Atta as a terrorist prior to the Sept. 11 attacks.
Two military officers, Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and Navy Capt. Scott Phillpott, have come forward to support Weldon's claims.
© 2005 The Associated Press
ペンタゴンのAble Danger作戦とは
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Danger
Able Danger was a small, highly-classified U.S. Army intelligence program under the command of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC). It was created as a result of a directive in early October 1999 by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Hugh Shelton, to USASOC to develop a campaign plan against transnational terrorism, "specifically al-Qaida." According to claims made by Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and confirmed by four others, Able Danger had identified the 9/11 attack leader, Mohamed Atta, and three other 9/11 hijackers as possible members of an al Qaeda cell operating in the United States by mid-2000, more than a year before the attack. The claim appears to contradict the official conclusion of the 9/11 Commission that American intelligence agencies had not identified Atta as a terrorist prior to the attack. This has resulted in a political controversy centered on Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) who has enthusiastically backed the claims.
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Assertion that Able Danger identified 9/11 hijackers
The existence of Able Danger and its claimed identification of the 9/11 terrorists was first publicly disclosed in June 2005 by Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA), vice chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees, in a special orders speech on the House floor. In his book Countdown to Terror Weldon asserted that an Able Danger chart produced in 1999 identifying 9/11 hijackers Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, Khalid al-Mihdar and Nawaf al-Hazmi had been presented to then Deputy National Security Advisor Jim Steinberg and that Weldon himself had personally presented the chart to then-Deputy National Security Advisor Steve Hadley days after 9/11. The claim was picked up by national media in August 2005 after it was reported in Government Security News.[1]
Weldon claimed that the intelligence concerning Atta was provided to the 9/11 Commission, but Commission members Timothy J. Roemer and John F. Lehman both claimed not to have received it. The Commission later stated that it had received information concerning the identification of Atta by Able Danger, but it was consider not sufficiently credible to be included in the Commission's report or warrant further investigation. The claim that Atta was in the US before 2000 also conflicted with the timeline for the 9/11 attacks developed by the Commission.
A Time magazine article [2] reports that Weldon admitted he is no longer sure that Atta's name was on the chart he presented and that he was unable to verify whether this was the case having handed over his only copy and that a reconstruction was used for post-9/11 presentations. Weldon gave a talk at the Heritage Foundation with a chart he described as the one handed over on May 23, 2002. [3](Time 33:33).
House intelligence committee chairman Peter Hoekstra is currently investigating the matter at Weldon's request but is reported by Time as having cautioned against “hyperventilating” before the completion of a “thorough” probe.
Pentagon officials said they were unaware that any Able Danger material named Atta. They declined to comment on the reports as they worked to clarify the matter.
On August 12, 2005 Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton, former Chair and Vice Chair of the 9/11 Commission, issued a statement in response to media inquiries about the Commission’s investigation of the ABLE DANGER program recanting the denial by Roemer and Leahman. [4] They stated that the Commission had been aware of the ABLE DANGER program and requested and obtained information about it from the Department of Defense, but none of the information provided had indicated that the program had identified Atta or other 9/11 hijackers. They further stated that a claim about Atta having been identified had been made to the 9/11 Commission on July 12, 2004 (just days before the Commission's report was released), by a U.S. Navy officer employed at DOD, but that:
The interviewee had no documentary evidence and said he had only seen the document briefly some years earlier. He could not describe what information had led to this supposed Atta identification. Nor could the interviewee recall, when questioned, any details about how he thought a link to Atta could have been made by this DOD program in 2000 or any time before 9/11. The Department of Defense documents had mentioned nothing about Atta, nor had anyone come forward between September 2001 and July 2004 with any similar information. Weighing this with the information about Atta’s actual activities, the negligible information available about Atta to other U.S. government agencies and the German government before 9/11, and the interviewer’s assessment of the interviewee’s knowledge and credibility, the Commission staff concluded that the officer’s account was not sufficiently reliable to warrant revision of the report or further investigation.
However, according to the Associated Press both Lt Col Shaffer and Navy Captain Anthony Philpott claim to have provided information to the committee.[5]
On August 14, Mike Kelly, a columnist for the Bergen (New Jersey) Record, described a telephone interview, arranged by the staff of Rep. Weldon, with a man who identified himself as a member of the Able Danger team but asked that his name not be revealed. [6] In the interview the man claimed that his team had identified Mohamed Atta and three other 9/11 hijackers as likely al Qaeda terrorists operating in the United States, but were prevented from passing this information on to the FBI by government lawyers. He also claimed that he was ignored by the 9/11 Commission's staff when he approached them on two occasions to explain Able Danger's work.
On September 15, Weldon asserted that he had identified an employee who had been ordered to destroy the 2.5 Tb of data collected by Able Danger two days before the 9/11 attack. [7].
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