Curt Weldon Quotes (46 Quotes)


    The American people are saying, 'Hey, their credibility is no good here,'

    This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.

    There is an attack under way. You can basically say we are at war,

    What were doing is cutting through the red tape. We are not FEMA, we are not Homeland Security, were dealing directly with the people that have needs and were getting them the materials. No B.S. No maybe, well its in the works. Were taking it down there.

    The French had an obvious financial interest in Iraq. That's been documented. They were involved financially in Iraq and in some cases, I think with weapons of mass destruction.


    How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

    I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.

    Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.

    I am extremely disappointed by the actions of the 9/11 commission.

    With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

    In the 21st century, you have to be able to monitor where information is going and who's tapping into it, ... You have to be able to do massive data mining, and nobody can do that today.

    The American people need to be told what could have been done to prevent 3,000 people from losing their lives,

    Tens of thousands of innocent people were killed using weapons of mass destruction. The question is whether or not we will actually find them.

    It's not just the cost involved, ... But the potential impact to men and women in uniform is impossible to calculate .... There should be some type of punitive action taken.

    The Sept. 11 commission's statement that it does not believe a secret military intelligence unit discovered a group of future hijackers more than a year before the attacks is

    I think Gadhafi is on the mark. And up until this point in time, I think they truly want to turn this around and become a positive player with the West after years and years of terrorism and stagnation.

    People like Jacques Chirac and the Germans, Schroeder, really have no argument. They pushed the U. S. into the war against Milosevic to remove him.

    There is no way, ... no way we are going to have the money to pay for the programs, so we have to make some tough decisions.

    The Pentagon today will not allow any of these people who work for the Pentagon, to talk to the media. They have gagged them from talking to members of Congress.

    Please tell Congressman Weldon I've done nothing wrong.

    Our enemies and our would-be enemies are working very hard at cyberterrorism... They're trying to level the playing field because they know they can't beat us tank for tank, plane for plane.

    It looks like time stood still, the whole community.

    The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger.

    The Libyans gave us everything I asked for.

    Over the past three months, I have witnessed denial, deception, threats to Defense Department employees, character assassination, and now silence,

    Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20.

    Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn.

    The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.

    It could help assess whether there are people trapped alive in attics or upper floors, ... Once you've got them pinpointed you can send rescue teams in.

    The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

    When these kinds of things happen it send chills down the backs of American business people, who wonder if they're going to be next,

    I voted for this president. I campaigned for him, but on this issue he's wrong.

    It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic.

    I've never had a detailed discussion about it with him, but he remembered the meeting,

    We're going to break a story that there are people on the staff on the 9-11 Commission that didn't want the 9-11 Commissioners to know the details of Able Danger because of the potential to embarrass those commissioners.

    There is no doubt that the Soviets stored material in this country. The question is what and where.

    I think we got their attention. We just can't continue to allow this to happen,

    I dont know where this is going to go, but the bottom line is 3,000 people were murdered, ... This is the grossest attack ever against this country and the American people deserve to have answers. Theyre not getting answers, theyre getting denials and spin.

    Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings.

    There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had and used significant weapons of mass destruction on his own people, both the Kurds and the Iranians.

    Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.

    Two weeks before the attack on the USS Cole and then again two days before the attack, they saw through their analysis that a major event was going to occur in Yemen. They told the Navy not to bring the Cole into Yemen harbor. It went in and was attacked.

    My request is ... that we work toward a supplemental and not wait until the election's over, but that we be serious about what is needed, ... I want to give the Army the equipment they want.

    Now we have a whole separate supplier of data for Able Danger who's verifying that same information.

    Up until today I knew that the Clinton administration clearly knew about this. Now I know of at least two briefings in the Bush administration,

    It's a failure of our intelligence system. ... It's a failure that was caused by a lack of resources and by a complacency that set in over the last 10 years, a complacency that convinced all of us that with the demise of the Soviet Union, there were no more threats.


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