Medal of Freedom should go to Rep. Curt Weldon R-Pa

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Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa. vice chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees, deserves the Medal of Freedom for his persistence in stirring up facts for the American people regarding what U.S. defense intelligence officials knew, when they knew it regarding the 9/11 terrorists. Maybe George Tenent, former head of CIA, can return his Medal of Freedom.

Excerpts from the story by AP are below and shown on MSNBC web site here.

"The subject of all the attention is the fact that Weldon asserts that U.S. defense intelligence officials identified ringleader Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers as a likely part of an al-Qaida cell more than a year before the hijackings but didn’t forward the information to law enforcement.

In June, Rep. Weldon Weldon, a Republican maverick on Capitol Hill, initially made his allegations about Atta and the others in a speech in June that garnered little attention. His talk came at the end of a legislative day during a period described under House rules as “special orders”

The Sept. 11 commission will investigate a claim that U.S. defense intelligence officials identified ringleader Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers as a likely part of an al-Qaida cell more than a year before the hijackings but didn’t forward the information to law enforcement.