Tuesday, August 16, 2005
SECRETARY COHEN DOESN'T RECALL ABLE DANGER
It's good to see that everyone is so ginned up on the Cindy Sheehan extravaganza that they ignored former Secretary Of Defense under King Clinton, William Cohen, playing the stupid drum for a deaf audience tonight in a Wolfy interview, regarding Able Danger. (sarcasm off)
Excerpt of CNN interview:
BLITZER: Did you know about this unit called Able Danger, these special operations forces that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Hugh Shelton, had created?
COHEN: I'm not -- I don't have a recollection specifically of that. I certainly know that there were a number of special forces that were set up to gather information. I don't recall receiving that particular report, though.
BLITZER: But you do recall that there were prohibitions on the U.S. military informing the FBI of potential threats out there? Because that sounds pretty outrageous to the average person out there.
COHEN: I'm not sure there was a prohibition against that. All I'm saying -- there were a number of prohibitions in terms of what information the CIA could share with the FBI and the FBI with the CIA, what the Pentagon could do, what our military could do in terms of enforcing or using military forces to protect the country domestically. All that has been changed now by 9/11, but prior to that there were a number of
restrictions. This may have been one of them. I'm not familiar with it.
So, he knows of Able Danger, but knows nothing more. Please! They (Clinton Admin.) screwed up so badly on this issue, they are essentially now all braindead on the matter.
What I would like to see is a few lawyers FIRED, Gorelicks reputation ruined, led by a massive Senatorial investigation. I get the feeling that if this occurred under Bush, good 'ole Chuck Schumer would have gone NU-KU-LAR by now.
