[145][146][147] Privately, McConnell had advised Trump against initiating the shutdown. It would appear, particularly given the Defense Department's outright refusal to allow those involved with Able Danger to testify today, that an obstructionist attitude exists. [208][209] His second wife, whom he married in 1993, is Elaine Chao, Secretary of Labor under President George W. Bush and Secretary of Transportation under President Donald Trump. Sotomayor was confirmed days later. [25][24] During the same time period, he taught a night class on political science at the University of Louisville. [60][61] Political scientists noted that "by slowing action even on measures supported by many Republicans, McConnell capitalized on the scarcity of floor time, forcing Democratic leaders into difficult trade-offs concerning which measures were worth pursuing. [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. [144], During this shutdown, McConnell blocked the Senate from voting on appropriations legislation, and said it was not his place to mediate between the Senate and Trump. [33] He was first elected as Majority Whip in the 108th Congress[34] and was unanimously re-elected on November 17, 2004. 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Mitch McConnell looking forward to busy opening session", "No, the government did not pay for Mitch McConnell's polio care. 1 min read. [201], McConnell is a Southern Baptist, baptized at age 8. Eight days later, on June 27, 2005, Representative Curt Weldon, vice chairman of the House Armed Services and House Homeland Security committees and the principal source for the Phucas article, gave a special orders speech on the House floor detailing Able Danger: Mr. Speaker, I rise because information has come to my attention over the past several months that is very disturbing. @FieldMcConnell. [137] On October 23, 2020, McConnell set in place the Senate debate for the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to fill Ginsburg's seat. [211][212][213][214] McConnell voted to confirm. [142], From December 22, 2018, until January 25, 2019, the federal government was shut down when Congress refused to give in to Trump's demand for $5.7billion in federal funds for a U.S.Mexico border wall. "[50] A number of political scientists, historians, and legal scholars have characterized McConnell's obstructionism and constitutional hardball as contributors to democratic erosion in the United States. Clearly that mandatory sentence cannot be applied to somebody who has left office. Mitch McConnell shot them down", "Mitch McConnell could end the shutdown. [citation needed] Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist did not seek re-election in the 2006 elections. In December 2006, a sixteen-month investigation by the US Senate Intelligence Committee concluded "Able Danger did not identify Mohamed Atta or any other 9/11 hijacker at any time prior to September 11, 2001", and dismissed other assertions that have fueled 9/11 conspiracy theories. Weighing this with the information about Atta's actual activities, the negligible information available about Atta to other U.S. government agencies and the German government before 9/11, and the interviewer's assessment of the interviewee's knowledge and credibility, the Commission staff concluded that the officer's account was not sufficiently reliable to warrant revision of the report or further investigation.[19]. Which took us to November 2, 1999, Gould said. [31][32] On February 12, 1999, he was one of fifty senators to vote to convict and remove Bill Clinton from office. He told 9/11 Commission staffers Able Danger identified three of the individuals in the terrorist cells that conducted the 9/11 attacks, to include Atta - Shaffer did not mention the names of any other of the 9/11 hijackers in his disclosure to the 9/11 staff. Cthulhu is Hard to Spell: The Terrible Twos. When voters heard that legislation had been 'defeated', journalists rarely highlighted that this defeat meant a minority had blocked a majority. 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. Retired USAF Lt. Col Field McConnell says it's been reported to him that Barack Obama was executed on September 29, 2019 by firing squad at GTMO. McConnell was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and is the second Kentuckian to serve as a party leader in the Senate. During the Trump administration, the Senate Republican majority under his leadership passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act in 2018, the First Step Act, and confirmed a record number of federal appeals court judges during a president's first two years. Why doesn't Field McConnell (or any of us) have any Constitutional rights? He also said why he voted to acquit: "ArticleII, Section4 must have force. In 2006, Captain Field McConnell filed a federal lawsuit in Washington, DC but the case was tossed by the judge. [169][170] With a 49% disapproval rate in 2017, McConnell had the highest disapproval rating of all senators. In 2009, Andrews Air Force Base merged with Naval Air Facility Washington to form Joint Base Andrews.Andrews, located near Morningside, Maryland in suburban Washington, D.C., is the home base of two Boeing VC-25A aircraft with the call sign . speculates that "the 'Atta' fingered by Able Danger was really the first, 'Abu Nidal' Atta, and not the second, 9/11 'Al Qaeda' Atta", and that this may help explain this Able Danger issue. She is known for Zombie Army (1991). [38][39], Former chief assistant U.S. attorney Andrew McCarthy and others have asserted that the Able Danger intelligence was suppressed as a result of a policy of forbidding the CIA and FBI to share intelligence known as "the wall. 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. ", "McConnell Strategy Shuns Bipartisanship", "Republicans in Wisconsin and Michigan want to weaken incoming Democratic governors. During his Senate tenure, McConnell led opposition to stricter campaign finance laws,[176] culminating in the Supreme Court ruling that partially overturned the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (McCain-Feingold) in 2010. Politics, Media & News, QANON. [28] The Defense Department's inspector general (DoD OIG) made a similar conclusion. Mitch McConnell (Addison Mitchell "Mitch" McConnell; 20 Februar 1942) wis a senator frae America. Able Danger was a classified military planning effort led by the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). CIA will never provide that to you because if you were successful in your effort to target Al Qaeda, you will steal our thunder. [190], In 1996, he defeated Steve Beshear by 12.6%,[191] even as Bill Clinton narrowly carried the state. Russell-Jay: Gould explained. The existence of Able Danger, and its purported early identification of the 9/11 terrorists, was first disclosed publicly on June 19, 2005, in an article[11] by Keith Phucas, a reporter for The Times Herald, a Norristown, Pennsylvania, daily newspaper. [164] Democrats panned the bill as "completely inadequate" given the scope of the crisis brought on by the COVID-19[165] and as a partisan maneuver to help Republican senators up for reelection. American politician and lawyer (born 1942), "Senator McConnell" redirects here. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter held a hearing on September 21, 2005, looking into the facts about Able Danger. "Let me emphasize two specific items for clarification purposes because they have been distorted and invited undue criticism from some. [2] The copies within Lt Col Shaffer's files were destroyed by the DIA in approximately Spring 2004. In December 2006, an investigation by the US Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that assertions could not be confirmed. "[49] According to University of Texas legal scholar Sanford Levinson, McConnell learned that obstruction and Republican unity were the optimal ways to ensure Republican gains in upcoming elections after he observed how Democratic cooperation with the Bush administration on No Child Left Behind and Medicare Part D helped Bush's 2004 re-election. Curt Weldon's assertion that Able Danger identified the 9/11 hijackers was picked up by the national media in August 2005, after it was reported in the bimonthly Government Security News. We're going after the leadership. 1978: William Tell, World-wide fighter competition, Hired by North Central Airlines on 2 November, 1978. Analysts had created charts that included pictures of then-known Al Qaeda operatives, but none including Atta. President, you will not fill the Supreme Court vacancy. [232], During the 2014 campaign season, McConnell was lampooned for posting campaign B-roll footage online for use by allied PACs. Speaking on behalf of Lt. Col. Shaffer, attorney Mark Zaid testified "Those within Able Danger were confident they weren't compiling information on US persons. He's awaiting extradition to Broward County, Florida, where he will be held without bail on three felony charges until trial, which . After a report came out of Democrats' investigating a second allegation against Kavanaugh, McConnell said, "I want to make it perfectly clear. Weldon claimed to be in contact with people in the government still able to do data-mining who got 13 hits on Mohamed Atta. Shaffer claimed that he alerted the FBI in September 2000 about the information uncovered by the secret military unit "Able Danger", but he alleges three meetings he set up with bureau officials were blocked by military lawyers. Gorton also asserted that "the wall" was a long-standing policy that had resulted from the Church Committee in the 1970s, and that the policy only prohibits transfer of certain information from prosecutors to the intelligence services and never prohibited information flowing in the opposite direction. "Based on years of experience I can say categorically that the basis for the revocation was questionable at best. Moreover, that was the first time he had ever gone by the name "Mohamed Atta." It was impossible to tell which, and the unclassified work of Able Danger was not designed to address that question. [210], In May 2019, McConnell's brother-in-law Gordon Hartogensis, who is married to Chao's sister Grace, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), a part of the Labor Department. [107] In August, McConnell called Sotomayor "a fine person with an impressive story and a distinguished background" but added he did not believe she would withhold her personal or political views while serving as a justice. McConnell is the Senate leader of the Republican Party, having served as minority leader since 2021 and previously from 2007 to 2015, and as majority leader from 2015 to 2021. [20] His brief time in service has repeatedly been put at issue by his political opponents during his electoral campaigns. [24] He then went to work for a Louisville law firm, Segal, Isenberg, Sales and Stewart, for a few years. No information obtained at the time would have led anyone to believe criminal activity had taken place or that any specific terrorist activities were being planned. He voted for the Iraq Resolution, which authorized military action against Iraq,[181] and supported the Iraq War troop surge of 2007 in public. Were historys actorsand you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do" Karl Rove (, After his retirement, he continued his investigation into illegal modification of Boeing aircraft revealing the existence of the, 1967-1971, studied at United States Naval Academy, graduating 9 June, 1971. Her hometown is Pottsville, Pennsylvania. [68] However, McConnell disagreed with Trump on multiple subsequent occasions. McConnell first served as a Deputy United States Assistant Attorney General under President Gerald Ford from 1974 until 1975 and went on to serve as Jefferson County Judge/Executive from 1977 until 1984 in his home state of Kentucky. [188][189] He was the first Republican to win a statewide election in Kentucky since 1968, and benefited from the popularity of President Ronald Reagan, up for re-election, who was supported by 60% of Kentucky voters in the same year. 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"[57] The Republican caucus threatened repeatedly to force the United States to default on its debt, McConnell saying he had learned from the 2011 debt-ceiling crisis that "it's a hostage that's worth ransoming. Later that day, McConnell told the media: "I'm not an impartial juror [in this impeachment trial]. Clare McConnell is a Canadian actress and comedian known for her role as Klingon Leader Dennas on CBS's Star Trek: Discovery. [20][22][23], From 1968 to 1970, McConnell worked as chief legislative assistant to Senator Marlow Cook in Washington, D.C., managing a legislative department consisting of five members as well as assisting with speech writing and constituent services. 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Shaffer and the other four members of Able Danger were ordered not to testify by the Department of Defense. Until the date, her major source of income is believed to be acting, and getting roles in movies. In November 2006 he was elected Senate minority leader the post he held until Republicans took control of the Senate in 2015. The question for this Committee is to investigate how far that position extends and why. Additionally, the 9/11 Commission also received documents from the Department of Defense on ABLE DANGER. 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. President Trump tweeted two days later that he was willing to allow a government shutdown to get funding. Retired from Air National Guard on 22 June, 1993 with final F16 flight on Pearl Harbor Day, 1992. Lt. Col Tony Shaffer has claimed that the DOD retaliated against him for speaking out publicly about the IG report's distortions. Judge Kavanaugh will be voted on here on the Senate floor. Paul withdrew from the race following the Iowa caucus, and McConnell endorsed presumptive nominee Donald Trump on May 4, 2016. In May 2016, after Trump suggested that federal judge Gonzalo P. Curiel was biased against Trump because of his Mexican heritage, McConnell responded, "I don't agree with what he (Trump) had to say. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, McConnell initially opposed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, calling it a Democratic "ideological wish list". [39], In 1990, McConnell faced former Louisville Mayor Harvey I. Sloane, winning by 4.4%. [5][6], The program used data mining techniques to associate open source information with classified information in an attempt to make connections among individual members of terrorist groups as part of its original "intelligence preparation of the battlespace". Pentagon officials said they were unaware that any Able Danger material named Atta. [41], This assertion was disputed by former senator Slade Gorton (R-WA), a member of the 9-11 Commission, who said, "nothing Jamie Gorelick wrote had the slightest impact on the Department of Defense or its willingness or ability to share intelligence information with other intelligence agencies." [158], Speaking on the Hugh Hewitt radio show on April 22, 2020, McConnell suggested that states should be able to declare bankruptcy instead of receiving additional COVID-19 aid funds funds which he implied would be used to save insolvent state pension funds, instead of COVID-19 relief as intended. It was created as a result of a directive from the Joint Chiefs of Staff in early October 1999 by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Hugh Shelton, to develop an information operations campaign plan against transnational terrorism. It was created as a result of a directive from the Joint Chiefs of Staff in early October 1999 by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Hugh Shelton, to develop an information operations campaign plan against transnational terrorism. He then defeated Lois Combs Weinberg by 29.4%. Information regarding her parent's and siblings' occupations, age, and private lives are in the dark. He led opposition against Obamacare,[177] first through efforts to delay or prevent the law's passage, and later to repeal or replace it, including via the American Healthcare Reform Act. He was re-elected in 1981 against Jefferson County Commissioner Jim "Pop" Malone, 51% to 47%, outspending Malone 31, and occupied this office until his election to the U.S. Senate in 1984. [127] McConnell said he considers the judiciary to be the item of Trump's first two years with the longest-lasting impact on the country. [14][20] Shortly after his arrival, he was diagnosed with optic neuritis and was deemed medically unfit for military service. [98] After the vote McConnell lambasted and condemned Trump, despite his vote to acquit, in a 20-minute speech on the floor of the Senate, saying he believes Trump to be guilty of everything alleged by the House managers. The fifth remembers only Atta being cited by name. [3], McConnell is married to former secretary of transportation and former secretary of labor Elaine Chao. Field McConnell is a career military and airline pilot with connections to the aircraft-related events of 9/11. 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Nor could the interviewee recall, when questioned, any details about how he thought a link to Atta could have been made by this DOD program in 2000 or any time before 9/11. "I will not discuss this outside of my chain of command", Phillpott said in a statement to Fox News. [18] Democrats criticized McConnell for not putting appropriations legislation up for a vote, noting that the Republican-controlled Senate had unanimously passed an appropriations bill without wall funding and that the Senate could override Trump's veto. Weldon called the activities "a deliberate campaign of character assassination. She was nominated for Breakout Artist at the 2018 Canadian Comedy Awards. Net Worth in 2023. [25], A Time magazine article dated August 14, 2005, reports that Weldon admitted he is no longer sure that Atta's name was on the chart he presented to Hadley and that he was unable to verify whether this was the case, having handed over his only copy, and that a reconstruction was used for post-9/11 presentations. MARTIAL LAW, CONTROL GIVEN TO MILITARY BY TRUMP JAN 19TH. [13] He was president of the Student Council of the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. "[33] An investigation the Defense Department's inspector general concluded that "DIA officials did not reprise against LTC Shaffer, in either his civilian or military capacity, for making disclosures regarding Able Danger". However, Defense Intelligence Agency leadership had already ordered the hurried destruction of mined data, source databases, charts and resultant documents on entirely spurious legal grounds. There's not anything judicial about it. It tells us the President, Vice President, and civil officers may be impeached and convicted. Biden has described McConnell as "a friend, colleague and 'man of his word.'" 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. The witnesses reported to the journalists that the IG investigators got increasingly hostile in an effort to intimidate the witnesses into changing their testimony to drop any assertion that they had identified and tracked Atta, and this suggests a cover-up by the IG of Able Danger's findings. [17][21] Over time he shifted to the right and became more conservative. He was elected Majority Whip in the 108th Congress and re-elected to the post in 2004. FIELD MCCONNELL & JUAN O SAVIN: SLAVES NO MORE Politics, Media & News, QANON FIELD MCCONNELL & JUAN O SAVIN: SLAVES NO MORE Laura Mae July 12, 2022, 8:18 pm 3 98 Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Rigged Election We Will Win https://www.gematrix.org/?word=field+mcconnell++juan+o+savin+slaves+no+more&save=+Add+It+ [227] McConnell is known to embrace several of them; however, he objected strenuously to the nickname "Moscow Mitch". [Must See] "This very interesting intel with Jason Goodman and Field McConnell who is saying that basically the SES- (Senior Executive Service) is going down. [1], Attorney Mark Zaid, representing Lt. [133][134] McConnell afterward admitted the confirmation process was a low point for the Senate, but also downplayed reports of dysfunction in the Senate; he said claims that the Senate was "somehow broken over this [were] simply inaccurate". [135], In October 2018, McConnell said if a Supreme Court vacancy were to occur during Trump's 2020 re-election year he would not follow his 2016 decision to let the winner of the upcoming presidential election nominate a justice. [179] McConnell has supported stronger border security, free trade agreements and reductions in taxes. According to Shaffer, the CIA representative said, "I clearly understand. 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." [118], In an August 2016 speech in Kentucky, McConnell made reference to the Garland nomination, saying that "one of my proudest moments was when I looked Barack Obama in the eye and I said, 'Mr. McConnell later vowed Republicans would not force the U.S. to default on its debt or shut down the government in 2014, when stop-gap funding measures were set to expire. 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