[20] This was a coveted position because the Reserve units were mostly kept out of combat during the Vietnam War. The inspector sent the old I-94 and the corrected I-94 to the contractor which data enters I-94s for the INS. Kacie was born on July 30, 1990, to parents - Michelle and Ken McDonnell. 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. Nov 28, 2019 Special thanks to our top new tweeps this week @slavewar , He also said why he voted to acquit: "ArticleII, Section4 must have force. (21 December 2021). [223][228], Host Jon Stewart repeatedly mocked McConnell on The Daily Show for his resemblance to a turtle or tortoise. He also discussed the Defense Intelligence Agency's decision to suspend Lt. [108], In May 2010, after President Obama nominated Elena Kagan to succeed the retiring John Paul Stevens, McConnell said during a Senate speech that Americans wanted to make sure Kagan would be independent of influence from White House as an associate justice and noted Obama's referring to Kagan as a friend of his in announcing her nomination. After Trump faced heavy criticism from some right-wing media outlets and pundits for appearing to back down on his campaign promise to "build the wall", he announced that he would not sign any appropriations bill that did not fund its construction. "[18], On August 12, 2005, Hamilton and former 9/11 Commission chairman Thomas Kean issued a statement in response to media inquiries about the commission's investigation of the Able Danger program. The DOD's Defense Intelligence Agency reviewers identified more than 200 passages suspected of containing classified information. Mohamed Atta is in the U.S. on a green card, and we are fearful of the fallout from the Waco incident. [199][200] McConnell was elected to his seventh term on November3 when he defeated McGrath. Judge Kavanaugh will be voted on here on the Senate floor. On top of these, he makes an extra income through subscriptions & personal subscriptions. [172] At that time he was briefly not the least popular Senator, and was surpassed by Senators Claire McCaskill and Jeff Flake. [106] On July 17, McConnell announced that he would vote against Sotomayor's confirmation. [39], In 1990, McConnell faced former Louisville Mayor Harvey I. Sloane, winning by 4.4%. My story has remained consistent. Lt. Col Tony Shaffer also reported that the DOD has retaliated against him for speaking out publicly about the IG report's distortions. He says on Jan.19, one day before Joe Biden's inauguration, President Trump turned over control of the country to the military white hats. 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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. 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." [4], The independent film Able Danger was released in 2008. 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. She was part of the "Singing Playmates" musical group. [24] He then went to work for a Louisville law firm, Segal, Isenberg, Sales and Stewart, for a few years. [13] He was president of the Student Council of the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. [30], From 1997 to 2001, McConnell was chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the body charged with securing electoral victories for Republicans. The best rating since that time was in the fourth quarter of 2018, when he had a 38% positive rating and a 47% negative rating among Kentuckians. [44], Another variation of the Two Attas theory reported by Kaus notes that Omar Abdel Rahman also had an associate with the name Mohamed El-Amir (a name sometimes used by Atta) who was not the Mohamed Atta involved in the 9/11 hijacking. [159], After the passage of the CARES Act, McConnell waited several months before advancing any additional COVID-19 relief measures in the Senate, saying in May "I don't think we have yet felt the urgency of acting immediately," and that Congress should "[hit] pause" to evaluate how the allocated funds were working before approving more. Able Danger was a classified military planning effort led by the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). [72], After Joe Biden won the election of 2020 against Donald Trump, McConnell at first refused to recognize Biden as the winner of the election. 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. 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Zaid, Esq. The Department of Defense investigation concluded: Five witnesses who had worked on Able Danger and had been questioned by the Defense Department's Inspector General later told investigative journalists that their statements to the IG were distorted by investigators in the final IG's report, or the report omitted essential information that they had provided. According to Shaffer, the CIA representative said, "I clearly understand. [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. [151] This was the longest government shutdown in American history.[18][152]. Rhett wears an all-black business suit with a white undershirt and . On December 10, 2006, Field McConnell reported the illegal modification on Boeing aircraft to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Northwest Airlines, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), NORAD and the USNA Superintendent. [216], In 1997, he founded the James Madison Center for Free Speech, a Washington, D.C.-based legal defense organization. In the interview, the man claimed his team had identified Mohamed Atta and three other 9/11 hijackers as likely Al-Qaeda terrorists operating in the United States, but were prevented from passing this information on to the FBI by government lawyers. Since 2015, she has been dating Eric Hosmer, a professional baseball player. [56][59][52][62], Political scientists Hacker and Pierson describe the rationale behind McConnell's filibusters, "Filibusters left no fingerprints. [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. [145][146][147], By January 23, McConnell had blocked four Senate bills to reopen the government and a bill funding the Homeland Security Department through February 8. In 2015 and 2019, Time listed McConnell as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Before the Committee on Judiciary, United States Senate", "Joint Hearing on the Able Danger Program", Alleged Misconduct by Senior DOD Officials Concerning the Able Danger Program and Lieutenant Colonel Anthony A. 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Resigned from United States Marine Corps when recruited by North Dakota Air National Guard, Fargo ND, to fly F4D with 178th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, NDANG. [105] In June 2009, following President Obama's nominating Sonia Sotomayor as Associate Justice, McConnell and Jeff Sessions opined that Sotomayor's seventeen years as a federal judge and over 3,600 judicial opinions would require lengthy review and advocated against Democrats hastening the confirmation process. [94] On January 13, despite having the authority to call for an emergency meeting of the Senate to hold the Senate trial,[failed verification] McConnell did not reconvene the chamber, claiming unanimous consent was required. [145][146][147] Privately, McConnell had advised Trump against initiating the shutdown. 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