The Pentagon has launched an investigation to determine whether Clinton administration lawyers blocked a military intelligence unit code named Able Danger from sharing with the FBI critical information on Mohamed Atta and three other 9/11 hijackers a year before the 9/11 attacks.
"Because this happened in a previous administration, the Pentagon right now is trying to get their hands around what actually happened and who was involved," Rep. Curt Weldon told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity on Thursday.
Weldon said that Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, the Able Danger team member who came forward this week, "had a good meeting with [Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence] Stephen Cambone and Gen. Schwartz on Monday where they really laid it out."
"Secretary Cambone told him - 'Look, we need to know what really happened here because this all happened in a previous administration and so we don't know all the details,'" Weldon said.
Lt. Col. Shaffer, who also spoke with Hannity on Thursday, confirmed the Pentagon investigation, saying: "There's good progress being made at the Pentagon to try to confirm what I'm saying. I'm very hopeful that a lot more of this - the truth is going to come out very soon."
Asked if he knew whether the lawyers who blocked Able Danger's intelligence on Atta were Clinton appointees or holdovers from a previous administration, Lt. Col. Shaffer said:
"I don't [know]. And that's one of the mysteries which now, both the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice are probably going to have to look at; to figure out exactly who these people were and what the nature of their contacts were."
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