Mr. Perfect he ain’t

At this point, everyone pretty much has figured out that the government screwed up regarding 9/11. Whether you blame Bush, Clinton, Congress, the CIA, the FBI, the ATF, the Transportation Department, HUD or that guy who got shot by Dick Cheney, pretty much you realize the government screwed up. (And, even if you’re one of those conpiracy theorists, you still probably blame the U.S. government, just in a sinister way.)

Local Congressman Curt Weldon thinks the government is to blame, but he has a twist on the idea: If the government had listened to Curt Weldon, 9/11 would have been avoided. I mean, we still would have had the day, just no terrorists would have knocked down any buildings.

Weldon has made the charge that a secret government program called “Able Danger” recommended taking out Mohammad Atta and two others before 9/11, but the government failed to act. He’s written a book to this effect.

Of course — whether Weldon was being truthful or not — a bunch of military guys said they never saw Atta’s photo and Weldon himself isn’t sure of it anymore. Hmm.

But, fear not! He’s come up with a way to move the attention from his “Able Danger” allegations to something even better, according to the Inquirer:

Yet even as his story triggers more and more questions, Weldon is making explosive new allegations. He says a high-level source has told him that terrorist leader Osama bin Laden has died in Iran, where he has been in hiding.

Yeah, dude, I dunno about that. You think Osama would pass up getting a look at his niece’s reality show?

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