Book 2 of 2: Cthulhu is Hard to Spell | by Russell Nohelty, Matthew Childers, et al. [56][59][52][62], Political scientists Hacker and Pierson describe the rationale behind McConnell's filibusters, "Filibusters left no fingerprints. Humayun Khan, a Muslim-American soldier who was killed in Iraq, McConnell said, "All Americans should value the patriotic service of the patriots who volunteer to selflessly defend us in the armed services." Senator Specter wondered if the Posse Comitatus Act may have been the reason Defense Department attorneys would not allow Able Danger to turn over information to the FBI. Paul Cantanese, McClatchy reporter. In October 2020, the couple got engaged. 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Mitch McConnell (Addison Mitchell "Mitch" McConnell; 20 Februar 1942) wis a senator frae America. It is most unlikely that Able Danger would have identified a terrorist called "Mohamed Atta" before May 2000. Senator in Kentucky history. [57], Operation Dark Heart by Anthony A. Shaffer, released in September 2010,[58] includes memories of his time reporting to the 9/11 commission about Able Danger's findings. [48] According to Purdue University political scientist Bert A. Rockman, "pure party line voting has been evident now for some time but rarely has the tactic of 'oppositionism' been so boldly stated as McConnell did. [citation needed]. [25][24] During the same time period, he taught a night class on political science at the University of Louisville. [206][207], Following her divorce from McConnell, Sherrill became a feminist scholar at Smith College and director of the Sophia Smith Collection. The election race was not decided until the last returns came in, when McConnell won by 3,437 votes out of more than 1.2 million votes cast, just over 0.4%. Addison Mitchell McConnell III[1] (born February 20, 1942) is an American politician and retired attorney serving his seventh term as the senior United States senator from Kentucky, which he has held since 1985. In November, after Republicans lost control of the Senate, they elected McConnell as the minority leader. [13] The Pentagon released a statement in response, stating that they wished to address these issues during a congressional hearing before a House Armed Services subcommittee scheduled for Wednesday, February 15, 2006. [4], The Senate panel of investigators said there was no evidence DoD lawyers stopped analysts from sharing findings with the FBI before the attacks. Denise McConnell was born on December 23, 1958 in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany. On July 18, 2018, with Andy Oldham's Senate confirmation, Senate Republicans broke a record for largest number of appeals court judiciary confirmations during a president's first two years; Oldham became the 23rd appeals court judge confirmed in Trump's term. [14][19], In March 1967, shortly before the expiration of his educational draft deferment upon graduation from law school, McConnell enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve as a private at Louisville, Kentucky. [46] Eric Umansky states the problem this way: "In fact, the two-Atta theory only leaves one major issue unexplained: What about the three other 9/11 hijackers that Able Danger purportedly fingered? Therefore, we will not support this. May 13th, 2020. "That looks to me as if it may be obstruction of the committee's activities", Specter, R-Pennsylvania, said at the start of his committee's hearing into the unit. This happened because the inspector issued a new I-94 with a new admission number on it. He believed that Able Danger identified Mohamed Atta 13 separate times prior to 9/11 and that the unit also identified a potential situation in Yemen two weeks prior to the October 12, 2000 attack on the USS Cole. References. [20], Congressman Weldon reiterated these statements in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 21, 2005. In November 2006 he was elected Senate minority leader the post he held until Republicans took control of the Senate in 2015. [151] This was the longest government shutdown in American history.[18][152]. Weldon also claimed that Able Danger information was found in Pentagon files as recently as two weeks prior to his statement and that a general was present when the files were taken from the cabinet. SHOW NOTES: Ye can help Wikipaedia bi expandin it This page wis last eeditit on 16 Mey 2018, at 23:33. . 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On September 21, 2006, The Washington Post reported that a Defense Department investigation into Able Danger found that Able Danger did not identify Mohamed Atta or any other hijacker before the September 11 attacks, and that a widely discussed chart was "a sample document passed to the military as an example of how to organize large amounts of data", and was created after 9/11. 6-min video: "Kristine Marcy Founder of SES Surrenders to Field McConnell". However, some of the people questioned by the IG claimed their statements to the IG were distorted by investigators in the final IG's report, and the report omitted essential information that they had provided. [189], In 2002, he was unopposed in the Republican primary. Kleinsmith deleted the 2.5 terabytes of data in May and June, 2000, on orders of Tony Gentry, general counsel of the Army Intelligence and Security Command. [169][170] With a 49% disapproval rate in 2017, McConnell had the highest disapproval rating of all senators. [159], After the passage of the CARES Act, McConnell waited several months before advancing any additional COVID-19 relief measures in the Senate, saying in May "I don't think we have yet felt the urgency of acting immediately," and that Congress should "[hit] pause" to evaluate how the allocated funds were working before approving more. [232], During the 2014 campaign season, McConnell was lampooned for posting campaign B-roll footage online for use by allied PACs. The 9/11 Commission has released multiple statements over the past week, each of which has significantly changed from initially denying ever being briefed to acknowledging being briefed on both operation ABLE DANGER and Mohamed Atta. Flew DC9, MD80,B727 and CV580 domestically Republic Airlines bought by Northwest Airlines January, 1986. It tells us the President, Vice President, and civil officers may be impeached and convicted. "There were two sets, classified and unclassified, and also an 'all sorts,'" which contained a blend of the two, "plus charts we'd produced." [136] In September 2020, following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he announced the Senate would vote on Trump's nominated replacement. I have learned that, in fact, one of our Federal agencies had, in fact, identified the major New York cell of Mohamed Atta prior to 9/11; and I have learned, Mr. Speaker, that in September 2000, that Federal agency actually was prepared to bring the FBI in and prepared to work with the FBI to take down the cell that Mohamed Atta was involved in in New York City, along with two of the other terrorists. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. McConnell invoked the "nuclear option" to eliminate the 60-vote requirement to end a filibuster for Supreme Court nominations, after his predecessor Harry Reid had previously eliminated the filibuster for all other presidential nominations; Trump subsequently won confirmation battles on Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court. [53] In April 2017, Senate Republicans led by McConnell eliminated the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations in order to end debate on the nomination of Neil Gorsuch. [221] His personal wealth was increased after receiving a 2008 personal gift to him and his wife, given by his father-in-law James S. C. Chao after the death of McConnell's mother-in-law, whose value has been estimated to be $525million. 8. "I deleted the data", he said. [73][74][75] In his public statements, McConnell did not repeat any of Trump's false claims of voter fraud, but did not contradict them, ignoring questions about evidence and instead arguing that Trump had the right to challenge the results. [citation needed] Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist did not seek re-election in the 2006 elections. [47] McConnell has received criticism for funding "temporary patches" to Kentucky's long-term healthcare problems, while simultaneously opposing and obstructing national programs that seek to improve healthcare more systematically, such as Obamacare and Medicaid expansion. Refused to serve under William Jefferson Clinton per information given by General Hunter H. Harris IV USAF who had secured my appointment to Annapolis. [15] Two 9/11 Commission members, Timothy J. Roemer and John F. Lehman, both claimed not to have received any information on Able Danger. Field McConnell. [4], Assertion that Able Danger identified 9/11 hijackers, Comments by members of the Able Danger team, An example of a chart produced as output by the project's data mining and visualization suite is called the. 00. [19] It stated 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 the program had identified Atta or other 9/11 hijackers. [216], In 1997, he founded the James Madison Center for Free Speech, a Washington, D.C.-based legal defense organization. And what we know is that Mohamed Atta sent his first email to friends in the U.S. in March 2000 and received his first U.S. visa on May 18, 2000. They further stated that a claim about Atta having been identified prior to the attacks had been made to the 9/11 Commission on July 12, 2004 (just days before the commission's report was released), by a United States 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. The Senate Judiciary Committee first attempted to investigate the matter for the Senate in September, 2005. She runs the famous reality show 'The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell'. To prevent two entries from occurring in NIIS, the inspector should have crossed out the admission number on the new I-94, made a reference to the previous admission number and noted that it was not a new entry.[47]. 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