What the 9/11 Commission narrative left out: Iraqis.

The Weekly Standard updates us on able danger. Read the whole thing. We would all like the answers to the questions at the end of the article.

"AS THE TWO SIDES in the current flap over Able Danger, a Pentagon intelligence unit tracking al Qaeda before 9/11, exchange claims and counterclaims in the news media, the work of the 9/11 Commission is receiving long overdue scrutiny. It may be the case, as three individuals associated with the Pentagon unit claim, that Able Danger had identified Mohammed Atta in January or February 2000 and that the 9/11 Commission simply ignored this information because it clashed with the commission's predetermined storyline. We should soon know more. Whatever the outcome of that debate, the 9/11 Commission's deliberate exclusion of the Iraqis from its analysis is indefensible."

via Ace.

I want to add something here. If all this turns out to be credible, it will be very upsetting to me. Not just because it would have proven Bush right, but because it will prove that some people put politics above the security of our country. Not only that, but drove a bitter wedge between the left and the right here that was not necessary and proved to be fertile ground for discontent and all out hate for one side to the other.

If it can be proven who was responsible for leaving this information out of the commission, then they need to be punished. I don't know how or by what law, but they should be punished. The damage they inflicted on the goodwill of the people of this country is probably irreparable.