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Curt Weldon:

Well I’ve learned, Michael, not to try to predict the American media. They have their own agenda. In fact if the New York Times hadn’t run this story a month after I first gave this speech on the House floor, most of the major networks would never have bothered to even check into it. Because this story was not a new story in August. I actually told this story from the House floor in the end of June in a floor speech for 45 minutes on June 27th. The New York Times didn’t pick up the story until August 2nd. But when they ran it front page above the fold, and then for 3 straight days they followed up with stories it became the national and international news story in every major print paper and on all the major networks worldwide.

What we’re fighting here is both the Pentagon and the 9-11 Commission who are trying to spin this story away, and say it’s much ado about nothing, it really didn’t matter. The 9-11 Commission called it historically insignificant. And that’s why this 23 year career Navy commander, an Annapolis graduate, said I’m not going to have my work labeled as historically insignificant. So he risked his entire career to come out in the public, in the open and say that he would swear on his entire career and his life that in January and February of 2000 his team and Able Danger identified Mohammad Atta and 3 of the other terrorists in the New York Al Quaeda cell. And he tried to get that data to the FBI and consistently, 3 times was refused.