Mover Mike

Mike is a retired stock broker, and now supports his wife's furniture business. He is her warehouseman, deluxer, and marketing guru. In addition, he writes poetry and finds abundance, health and joy in the world around him while pondering life's little mysteries

Curt Weldon's Chart of Al-Qaeda Connections
You remember the NYT wrote
(Lt. Col. Anthony) Shaffer said he had provided information about Able Danger and its identification of Mr. Atta in a private meeting in October 2003 with members of the Sept. 11 commission staff when they visited Afghanistan, where he was then serving. Commission members have disputed that, saying that they do not recall hearing Mr. Atta's name during the briefing and that the name did not appear in documents about Able Danger that were later turned over by the Pentagon.
The Pentagon says it has no record of those documents even though some say a portion of the documents were delivered in a briefcase. Now Captain's Quarters posts about a chart the Curt Weldon showed at an Heritage Foundation event on May, 2002, that is derivative of the classified documents.
(Weldon) tells the audience that the classified version, designed for a special briefing for the Joint Chiefs, contained the complete look at al-Qaeda and their connections, one year prior to 9/11.
Captain's Quarters concludes
we knew what and where Al-Qaeda was far before 9/11 and had opportunities to destroy or disrupt them.
The real question is why we didn't do anything!
Captain's Quarter: The Great Wall of FISA
On August 12th, I posted Who is Jamie Gorelick? I quoted a piece from ChronWatch,
What is becoming increasingly obvious is that the Gorelick Memo itself was perhaps part of a much larger effort by the Clinton Administration to shield itself from investigations that would imply its complicity in the passing of sensitive military and nuclear intelligence to the Chinese in return for millions in illegal campaign donations in the run-up to the 1996 election.
Now, Captain's Quarters, in an awesome piece of reporting, titled Dafydd: the Great Wall of FISA, has this to say about the Chinese connection:
It is now generally conceded that the People's Republic of China...established a spy network of stunning breadth during the Clinton administration, primarily focusing on obtaining our most up-to-date nuclear technology and strategy. Of more controversy is why: (emphasis added) the Right asserts, and the Left hotly denies that Clinton himself turned a blind eye to Chinese espionage because of the very large campaign contributions funneled into the Clinton war chest by the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) and various intelligence agencies of Red China; the last estimate I saw indicated that the PLA eventually donated as much as $4 million to Clinton's campaign and library funds and to the Democratic National Committee, channeled through various cutouts, including Maria Hsia, Johnny Chung, John Huang, and Charlie Trie.
Do you remember Dr. Wen Ho Lee? The FBI wanted a FISA warrant on Lee's personal computer for evidence he was passing om nuclear secrets to China. The warrant was denied. Lee was charged with 59 counts of espionage, all but one was dropped, and the penalty was time served! Is it possible this failure to okay a FISA warrant was quid pro quo? The evidence that Captain's Quarter presents sure points that way.
Able Danger Is Not Over!
From Barcepundit,
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.
Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa. says the employee is expected to testify next week. Captain's Quarters has the whole story.
More on Able Danger
Hyscience refers us to Flopping Aces for the latest information on Able Danger and says
This gets bigger and bigger every week. As I said on August 11th:

This will become huge people. Wait for the firestorm.

Sic 'Em, Dog!