Billmon: Disable Danger

All wing nuts report to battle stations! The vast liberal conspiracy to conceal Bill Clinton's responsibility for 9/11 has seized control of the Department of Defense!

The Pentagon has been unable to validate claims that a secret intelligence unit identified Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta as a terrorist more than a year before the attacks, a Defense Department spokesman said Monday.

Larry Di Rita said that some research into the matter continues, but thus far there has been no evidence that the intelligence unit, called "Able Danger," came up with information as specific as an officer associated with the program has asserted.

"What we found are mostly general references to terrorist cells," Di Rita said, without providing detail.(emphasis added)

Unless Di Rita -- as partisan a GOP flack as you will find anywhere in the U.S. government -- has been secretly implanted with brain chips designed by Hillary Clinton, this should hang a closed sign on the Mohamed Atta rumor mill. Otherwise, you'd have to conclude the Cheney administration is also in on the coverup, in which case Captain Ed and the gang should probably just surrender. The Network clearly has them outgunned.